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Anthony Foster, Freelance Writer

MANCHESTER HIGH's Natoya Goule has promised 'fireworks' in order to avenge her first race defeat to Royalty Track Club's Tanice Barnett at this afternoon's Ministry of Health 5K race, the second in the Foska Oats/Jamdammer Grand Prix Road Race Series.

In the opening race of the series, the Foska Oats 5K on this same route, Barnett crossed the line in 18:58.25, well ahead of Goule 20:15.85, who promised to turn the tables this time around.

"Some times you have to get beaten, so you will know what to do next time," said Goule.

"The next race is going to be different - a different race and different mood," she said on September 30, the day when she suffered her first defeat in three years.

The defending champion said then that it just wasn't her day.However, Barnett, who also spoke to The Gleaner after that race, said it's not all about winning the series, but using it to gear up for trials.

"I am pleased with how I am running right now," Barnett said then.

Meanwhile, Goule and Barnett will be among more than 1,000 runners set to face the starter for the race, which will run off at 3:00 p.m. from Emancipation Park and take runners along Knutsford Boulevard, left on to Trafalgar Road, Waterloo Road, left on West King's House Road, left on Constant Spring Road, Half -Way Tree Road and on to Oxford Road. In the male section, 16-year-old Bellefield schoolboy sensation Kemoy Campbell seems set to be crowned champion in the absence of road race king Wainard 'Jump Up' Talbert, who is off the island.

About $442,000 in cash prizes, representing the biggest purse in local 5K road-running history, will be distributed tomorrow to the overall, age, wheelchair, walk and corporate category winners.