14th September 2013 11:00
But the European athlete of 2012 is well aware how tough it will be when he makes his debut over the course against Ethiopian stars Haile Gebrselassie and Kenenisa Bekele.
Farah hopes his amazing summer will come to an end with another impressive victory but he said: 'The most important thing is not about times, it's putting on a great show.'
Speaking to the BBC, he added: 'I've got the track speed but it all depends on how the race goes.'
It will be a fascinating hour because even now at 40, Gebrselassie, the former marathon world record-holder, believes he can triumph against the younger talent of Farah, 30, and triple Olympic champion Bekele, 31, who is making his half-marathon debut.
Gebrselassie has a best of 58:55 while Farah, who won 5,000m and 10,000m gold at the IAAF World Championships in Moscow last month, has run 60:23.
Farah said: 'I have experience on the roads but this will be only my third half-marathon race.
'I won in New York in 2011 and New Orleans earlier this year. I hope to make it a third win in the North east.'
The course is downhill from its start in Newcastle to the finish in South Shields, where the last mile is on the coastal road, a difficult finale which could be even tougher with strong winds predicted on Sunday.
It is likely to be an African affair at the front of the women's race but one athlete who could spoil the party is Portugal's Jessica Augusto.
Back in 2009, Augusto produced the best road race performance of her career to triumph over these 13.1 miles.
She might not be as quick as multi-medallist Tirunesh Dibaba, who is defending the title she won in 67:35 12 months ago, or her fellow Ethiopian Meseret Defar and Kenya's Olympic marathon silver medallist Priscah Jeptoo, but Augusto knows the course well and will draw on the experience that brought her glory here four years ago.
She won then in 69:08, a success which underlined her position as one of Europe's most consistent women athletes over the past five years.
During that time she has landed 10,000m silver and 5,000m bronze at the European Athletics Championships in Barcelona in 2010 and three team gold medals, along with being the individual champion in Albufeira, also in 2010, at the European Athletics Cross Country Championships.