Eilish McColgan hopes this 12 months’s Nice North Run will show third time fortunate after twice going near emulating her mum with victory.
The 34-year-old Scot beat three-time winner Liz McColgan’s finest time on the course from Newcastle to South Shields final 12 months.
However the 2021 runner-up crossed the road 5 seconds behind winner Mary Ngugi-Cooper in a dramatic six-athlete dash end on that event.
“Clearly, everybody would like to win. It is such an iconic race. I’ve watched it from a younger age, my mum’s received there, legends of the game have all received this race,” McColgan advised BBC Sport.
“I have been so shut on each events. In the end, I would like to go there and take the win and it will be wonderful. However I’m very conscious that the sphere is all the time actually sturdy.”
McColgan might be joined by Kenya’s New York marathon winner Sheila Chepkirui and two-time Nice North Run winner Vivian Cheruiyot on Sunday’s begin line, alongside 60,000 different runners.
Britain’s 2021 winner Marc Scott faces Kenya’s defending champion Abel Kipchumba, 2024 London Marathon winner Alex Mutiso Munyao and Belgium’s European marathon file holder Bashir Abdi within the elite males’s race.
The elite wheelchair races function Scotland’s 2024 runner-up Sean Body, Commonwealth medallist Simon Lawson and Paralympian Mel Nicholls.
