4-time Olympic champion Mo Farah will intention to interrupt a world file when he returns to the monitor at Friday’s Diamond League meeting in Brussels.
Farah will aim Haile Gebrselassie’s one-hour file of 21.285km (13.255 miles), set in 2007.
“I contemplate I can do it. I want to set a world file,” acknowledged Farah, who switched to road working after the Rio Olympics.
The 37-year-old Briton, who has not competed since last October’s Chicago Marathon, has under no circumstances set a world file.
The not usually run one-hour race, by which athletes try and cowl as lots distance as attainable inside 60 minutes, will occur with none followers because of coronavirus restrictions.
“This file has been there for a really very long time, set by any individual who has carried out somewhat lots for athletics,” acknowledged Farah, a six-time world champion over 5,000m and 10,000m.
“We will make this a great showcase in Brussels.”
Ethiopian good Gebrselassie expects Farah to show into the 12th athlete to held a file that was first set by Englishman Alfred Shrubb in 1904.
“The file simply is not so troublesome. I really feel Mo needs the file and may get it,” Gebrselassie acknowledged.
Farah, who targets to compete inside the 10,000m at subsequent 12 months’s postponed Tokyo Olympics, will return to road racing subsequent weekend when he competes inside the Antrim Coast Half Marathon.
He’ll then act as a pacesetter for Kenya’s world file holder Eliud Kipchoge and Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele on the delayed London Marathon on 4 October.
“It’s a uncommon 12 months for all of us. We have to assist each other,” Farah acknowledged.
Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands headlines the women’s one-hour race in Brussels, competing in direction of Kenyan Brigid Kosgei as they intention the world file of 18.517km set by Ethiopian Dire Tune Arissi in 2008.
Britain’s world heptathlon champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson will compete inside the extreme soar and 100m hurdles.
