Athletics: Jo Pavey admits she would like to compete at the 2016 Olympic Games

European 10,000m champion Jo Pavey admits she would like to compete at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

Mum-of-two Pavey claimed gold in Zurich at the age of 40, just 10 days after winning a bronze medal at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games.

“I want to keep going - I never know when I’m going to retire,” Pavey told Sky Sports.

“I would love to compete in the next Olympics so the last few weeks have given me hope that is a realistic possibility.”

Pavey’s victory in Switzerland made her the oldest female European champion in history and the Devonian says she is still surprised by her triumph.

“Getting a gold medal, I just couldn’t believe it because I tried so hard when I was younger,” she said. “I thought I probably would end it (my career) without a gold I thought that was the way that it was going.

“I’ve been trying for absolutely years to try and get a gold medal and never achieved it, so I wouldn’t have thought this would have been the circumstances - being 40 now with two young children.

“That would have surprised me if I’d have known that 10 years ago. 10 years ago I would have 100 per cent thought I’d be retired by the time I was 40. It doesn’t feel real still, I suppose.”

Now 41, Pavey says she still feels young and has modified her training her regime to suit the demands placed on her body.

“I don’t really notice any difference I don’t treat myself as old,” she said. “I actually get less injured than when I was younger because I’m more able to read my body and what I’m coping with and what I’m not coping with and things like that.

“I’m still doing the two training sessions a day but sometimes the morning one might be later and the evening one might be later because of that. So it’s very much juggling, but it’s just about getting through each day really and getting things done by muddling through.”