The four-time Olympic champion over 5,000m and 10,000m, Mo Farah, hasn’t utterly stopped racing on the observe. The 39-year-old revealed on the Ainslies’ Efficiency Individuals podcast that he just lately got here third in a 100m dads’ race at one in all his youngsters’ colleges—shedding to a dad who was racing in denims.
Farah informed the podcast that got here to win and he initially thought he got here second, however his spouse, Tania, who’s additionally a runner, stated he was third (and that he even wore his observe spikes).
“He’s not a sprinter—that’s what it’s. The mother and father’ race is at all times 100 metres,” stated Tania.
The dad who received the race in denims and beat Farah nonetheless dines out on his achievement to this present day. “We aren’t listening to the tip of it,” stated Tania. “Individuals simply assume Mo can run quick. What most don’t notice is his pace is sustained at a distance over 100m.”
Farah stated the proud race winner often tags him on social media.
Though arguably the best British male distance runner in historical past has stopped professionally competing on the observe, he’s on the elite checklist for the 2023 London Marathon. Whereas he has but to say explicitly when he’ll retire, he informed The Guardian that this season will doubtless be his final.
Farah has six world championship titles (all on the observe, within the 5,000m and 10,000m) and 4 Olympic gold medals over the 5,000m and 10,000m from London 2012 and Rio 2016, and is the one runner in historical past to win the 5,000 and 10,000m at back-to-back Olympic Video games. Since 2016, he’s moved as much as the marathon, successful Chicago in 2018 and ending third in London the identical 12 months.
