Lilesa, PB: 2:04:52 Bib no 9: Stanley Biwott, PB: 2:05:12Bib no 11: Deressa Chimsa, PB: 2:05:42Bib no 12: Stephen Kiprotich, PB: 2:07:20Bib no 29: Guest: Mo Farah (Mo will be running half the marathon)You can watch the Virgin London Marathon on BBC One

’t doing speed work though. He’s still recovering from the race 10 days ago and opts instead to hit the gym at the High Altitude Training Centre where we’re staying, and where Mo Farah and Paula Radcliffe come to train when they’re in Kenya. Wilson spends

2012; everyone is working so hard. But I would especially like to see Jess [Jess Ennis], Phil [Phillips Idowu], Mo [Mo Farah] and Dai [Dai Greene] walk away with a medal.I switch off from the pressure by vegging out with my boyfriend and watching bad TV

channels - more than 20 million people watched me race on a Tuesday night. Every May to September we’d fill 60-70 per cent of the newspapers’ back pages. It’s hard to imagine now.There is an expectation for Mo Farah to win gold in London 2012. Think back

, and British 10,000m record holder and European medallist, Mo Farah.Tickets for the Aviva British Grand Prix at the Gateshead International Stadium on July 10 are available by phone on 08000 556 056 or online at www.uka.org.uk. Ticket prices range from just £3-£10.

’s race Wilson Kipsang finished in 2:04:37 ahead of Martin Lel for a Kenyan one two.I’m staying at the High Altitude Training Centre (HATC) where Mo Farah and Paula Radcliffe trained over the winter. Everything here is designed to make training as simple

to be hard for her, as she’s got some good competition but it’s great to see her in good shape. The two hurdlers, Dai Greene and Perri Shakes-Drayton are also in for a chance.I’ve got tickets to Mo Farah’s 10,000m, I’m really excited about that.I race now

runners - from Mo Farah to Paula Radcliffe - and the benefits for track and road runners are manifold. Farah, who bagged gold in the European Cross-Country Championships in 2006 and silver in 2009, recently became the first athlete in 20 years to win

Leadenhall Market via St Pauls, the Embankment and the London Eye before turning onto a crowd-lined Mall for an epic finish in front of Buckingham Palace. The course is fast, too – last year, Mo Farah broke the British 10K road record to win the second

in athletics are notably absent from the 2010 Commonwealth Games team list: Jessica Ennis, Jemma Simpson, Mo Farah, Perri-Shakes-Drayton, Martyn Rooney and Michael Rimmer to name just a handful. Two weeks before the Games brought three high profile