athletics Athletics: Jo Pavey eyes third Bupa in Run success

Great South Run titles, the opportunity to become the first athlete to win three Bupa, Jo Pavey might just offer the necessary challenge to chase another success in this year’s race event, now to acknowledge as the world’s leading 10 mile event.

The seasoned British international makes no secret that the world leading 10 mile road race, taking place on October 27, is one of the favourites in her calendar, having won it in 2006 and again last year.

Meanwhile, Pavey, after her solid Olympic Games 5,000 and 10,000m display in London, where her seventh positions over both distance made her the first European to cross the line on each occasion, is still intent on pursuing a track career after those positive displays.

Currently the European 10,000m silver medallist has made an early New Year resolution to challenge for a place in the Great Britain team for the IAAF World Championships, taking place in Moscow from August 10th.

Pavey’s decision means that although she and Gavin, her coach together with husband, have mapped out a provisional 2013 schedule, they have yet to confirm their plans post Moscow – including another Bupa Great South Run outing_ where she is again hoping to double in the 5,000m and 10,000m.

“I’m sure Jo would love having the accolade of being the first to clock up the a third victory in a race which has become bigger and bigger since first being staged in Portsmouth in 1991, after moving from Southampton.”

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