Sir Mo Farah 'will always' enter Great Manchester Run 10K as he prepares for penultimate race as elite athlete
manchestereveningnews.co.ukOlympic legend Sir Mo Farah is preparing for what will be his penultimate race as he takes on the Great Manchester Run 10K tomorrow Farah completed a final London Marathon last month, finishing ninth in just over two hours and 10 minutes.
The 40-year-old will be back on the roads around Manchester this weekend before one last goodbye through the streets of Tyneside at the Great North Run half marathon on September 10.
However, fans of Britain’s greatest distance runner – a double Olympic champion over 5,000m and 10,000m in both London and Rio to add to his six world titles – will still be able to catch a glimpse of Sir Mo in the future, he has said.
Ahead of the race, Sir Mo has admited it will be an emotional send-off, but one which he intends to savour every moment of. READ MORE: Join the FREE Manchester Evening News WhatsApp community “I have had amazing career, there is nothing that I would change over the years and now finally that I have come to the end of it, I just have to enjoy the moment on Sunday and then get ready for the next one in September,” Farah told the PA news agency. “When your mind’s telling you that you can do good, but your body is not allowing you to, that is the most hardest thing – but you have got to be honest to yourself. “It is just about seeing what my body can do.
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