Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
FARAH: TELL LAURA I LOVED HER SUPPORT ON THE TRACK
MO FARAH has revealed that watching Laura Muir make history last weekend has him pining for a return to the track.
Farah (right) has been a full-time road athlete since signing off with his 10th global track title at the 2017 World Championships in London.
Having won the Chicago Marathon in October, his immediate target is to win next month’s London equivalent, for which he will prepare by running tomorrow’s Vitality Big Half in the capital.
But he is giving serious thought to making an emotional return to the track, in Doha this October, for a crack at a fourth successive World 10,000m crown.
“I miss the sort of atmosphere Laura got,” he said, referring to the wave of ear-splitting support Muir rode to a historic double-double at the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow.
“I miss the track, I miss representing my country and competing on home soil.
“Watching the European Indoors on TV, I was thinking, ‘Oh man! I want to get back out there’. If things are going well and I’ve got a chance to win a medal then I’d love to come back and run for my country as when I watch track races I’m like, ‘Can I still do it? I want to do it’.
“But my aim now is concentrate on the London Marathon and not get excited.”
It may well be that Farah, 35, will use the 10,000m in Doha as a springboard to a big pay day at the New York Marathon in November.