By NEIL WILSON

London, UK, July 25, 2009 – Mo Farah will use a British record set before he was born to measure his progress in his quest for a medal in next month's World Championships in Berlin.

Farah recognizes that unless he challenges the 5,000metres record set by David Moorcroft in 1982, nine months before Farah's birth in Somalia, he cannot expect to challenge African domination of the event at world level.

Moorcroft's 13min 0.41sec was a world record at the time. Breaking 13 minutes is regular for Africans with more than 60 having achieved it.

Farah returned from his latest training camp at high altitude in St Moritz and said: 'I am going to try to get close to the British record for my own sake. I am a lot stronger than last year. For me to move on another level, I have to give it a crack.

'For me it is all about the World Championships. But to get a medal I need to get close to 13 minutes.'

Farah had a conversation with Moorcroft last year.

'He did not put me under any pressure but he said, "You can get close to that record'',' said Farah

Source: Daily Mail

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