Mo Farah placed ninth at Sunday’s London Marathon in what he said will be his final race over the 26.2-mile distance. Farah ran a time of 2:10:28.
The 40-year-old settled into a chase group early on in the race. Farah ended up as the third British runner across the line with Emile Cairess placing sixth in 2:08:07 and Phil Sesemann taking eighth in 2:10:23. How To Train Calves Fred Kerley Provisionally Suspended.
“It didn’t go as well as I wanted,” Farah said after the race. “I wanted to run between 2:05 and 2:07. That’s what I thought I’m capable (of) from my training and my training partners.”
Farah still relished the experience to wave goodbye to the marathon in front of the home London crowd, but he doesn’t have any regrets about stepping away from the marathon. “It would have been a little bit better to run a bit more faster—to be the first Brit and say bye-bye,” he said. “There’s nothing you can do. You give it all, and that’s where you’re at, and I think you can finally see why I want to stop because my body can’t quite do what it used to do.”
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Farah announced Shoes & Gear scratching from the 2022 edition, and before the race announced that Sunday’s race would be his final marathon. “This is it,” he told reporters at the press conference leading up to the race. “I don’t know if my body can do it.”
Before Sunday’s race, Farah ran 30:41 at the Port-Gentil 10K in his only major race appearance of the year (besides his 100-meter loss at his child’s school to a jeans-clad dad). He was two-and-a-half minutes off the race winner at Port-Gentil.
Farah amassed 10 global championship gold medals throughout his career on the track between the Olympics and World Athletics Championships. He pivoted to the marathon in 2018, winning the Chicago Marathon that year. He placed eighth (2014), third (2018), and fifth (2019) in his other three appearances at the London Marathon before Sunday.
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