Middle distance star Mo Farah has set his sights on the British record after announcing he will compete in the 5000m at the Aviva Grand Prix, the penultimate stop of the 2011 IAAF Permit Indoor Meetings series, in Birmingham next weekend (19).
Farah returns to the National Indoor Arena hoping to produce a similar performance to the one he ran at the same event in 2009, where he set a new British 3000m record of 7:34.47, having sliced a huge 6.52 seconds off the record he set in Glasgow just three weeks before. The Aviva Grand Prix will be Farah’s second event of the indoor season - following his indoor performance in Boston this weekend - and just the second time he has competed on English soil after his amazing summer which saw him take gold in both the 5000m and 10,000m at the European Championships in Barcelona last July.
Farah lines up in Birmingham against the likes of Kenyon duo Sammy Mutahi and Bethwell Birgen, as well as Galen Rupp of the USA, but pundits predict Farah’s real race will be against the clock, and the Newham and Essex Beagles star is reluctant to disagree.
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