Mo Farah said that he was hurting, but he was smiling too. If ending his glittering track career to join the pack as a road racer had been seen as a gamble, his decision was vindicated on the streets of London yesterday. Having said that he was hanging up his Great Britain vest at the World Championships last summer, he now believes that call may have been a bit hasty. Farah finished an impressive third in the Virgin Money London Marathon in a time of 2hr 6min 21sec, knocking an impressive 52 seconds off Steve Jones’s British record that was set in 1985. In front of him had been Eliud Kipchoge, the Kenyan and probably the best marathon runner of all time, and Tola Shura…

Source: The Times April 22, 2018 23:03 UTC