Anderson graduates from the University of Otago with a physical education degree this weekend and leaves for London on Tuesday.
The 23-year-old will not have long to recover from the long-haul flight before he hits the track.
He plans to do eight weeks of ''hard racing'', and will compete in the 800m and 1500m in a British Milers Club meet in Manchester next weekend.
The Caversham runner will then compete in Watford the following Wednesday, as he looks to shave more time from his 800m and 1500m personal bests.
In addition to competing in England, Anderson may also compete in a Belgium grand prix mile circuit.
Anderson, who helped his club win the its fifth senior men's Lovelock Relay title in six years at the weekend, is coming off his best summer on the track.
He boasts the second fastest 800m time in the country behind Canterbury's Brad Mathas this year, and has knocked almost 2.5sec off his personal best over the summer.
Coached by Mike Weddell, Anderson ran the 800m in 1min 49.30sec at the Australian national championships is Brisbane in March.
He finished seventh there, but he did snare silver behind Mathas at the national track and field championships in Wellington earlier in March.
While the 1500m is not his preferred track event, Anderson has also clocked the eighth-fastest time (3min 49.29sec) in the country this year.
Anderson only started competing seriously about three years ago, and has come a long way in a short time.
''I'm so happy with [the summer],'' he said.
''I've had a big shift in mentality since I started training with Mike. I'm just loving it at the moment.''
After eight weeks of serious competition, Anderson plans to take a break to freshen up.
He will attend the world championships in Beijing in August, where he will watch the fastest man in the world, Usain Bolt, in action.
Anderson had hoped to compete at the world university championships in South Korea while he was in Asia, but he missed out on qualification in the 800m by 0.3sec.
The former King's High School pupil will ''do some sightseeing'' around Europe after the world championships, before returning to Dunedin by the end of the year.
Anderson does not yet have a ticket booked home, but plans to be away between six and seven months.
Dunedin is hosting the national track and field championships, which double as an Olympic qualifying event, next March.
With a northern hemisphere summer to look forward to before then, Anderson has plenty of time to close the less than 2sec gap between him and Mathas and push for the national 800m title at home next year.
