Great Manchester Run

:00:18. > :00:21.always been a trail blazing city. 100 years on from the Industrial

:00:21. > :00:26.Revolution it is all about the music. Now, Manchester's leading the

:00:27. > :00:31.way in a sporting revolution. The 2002 Commonwealth Games signalled a

:00:31. > :00:36.new era. Without them, it was said the London Olympic and Paralympic

:00:36. > :00:42.Games would never have happened. Since then, pretty much every major

:00:42. > :00:47.sporting event has been held here. Manchester is home to the multi-gold

:00:47. > :00:51.medal winning British cycling team. Today, it's running that's in the

:00:51. > :01:01.spotlight as 40,000 people of all abilities take to the streets. The

:01:01. > :01:07.

:01:07. > :01:09.city of industry, music and now Good morning to you and welcome to

:01:09. > :01:13.the Great Manchester Run. It is another beautiful morning here in

:01:13. > :01:17.the north-west. It is a mixed blessing. If you're one of the

:01:18. > :01:22.40,000 or so people on Oxford Street you're probably wishing it was a

:01:22. > :01:26.little cooler but if you're a supporter, you think it is about

:01:26. > :01:35.perfect. Over a quarter of a million people have taken part in this race

:01:35. > :01:40.since it first started in 2003. It is the largest UK 10K race. You've

:01:40. > :01:46.Olympic champions, world champions, top level world runners, stars of

:01:46. > :01:53.the small screen. People dressed in crazy outfits and heart warming and

:01:53. > :01:59.inspirational stories. Steve Cram, palm Dickenson and Denise Lewis and

:01:59. > :02:04.Paul Jones are out and about. I am ear here with David Ryan. Who are

:02:04. > :02:11.you running for and how much money are you trying to raise? Northern

:02:11. > :02:17.air hospital radioam I'm looking to raise about �1,000. David's story is

:02:17. > :02:24.one of thousands. Everyone running here has a special reason for doing

:02:24. > :02:30.so as I'll find out a little later. Good luck everyone. A among the

:02:30. > :02:35.thousands of runners are some famous faces from Emmerdale to Coronation

:02:35. > :02:38.Street, 5 live to life on Mars. I'll speak to some later up here on the

:02:38. > :02:42.speak to some later up here on the VIP bus.

:02:42. > :02:47.Lots more coming from Phil and Denise through the next couple of

:02:47. > :02:57.hours. I'll speak to Paula Radcliffe shortly. First, here's what's coming

:02:57. > :02:57.

:02:57. > :03:04.up this morning. Always high quality elite races. We've Haile

:03:04. > :03:08.Gebrselassie Hyland Tish annish dib abab. We've a special guest, former

:03:08. > :03:14.Bolton Wanderers Fabrice Muamba a year on from that shocking cardiac

:03:14. > :03:18.arrest he suffered whilst playing Spurs. There are more inspirational

:03:18. > :03:23.stories like Kirsty Howard who's raised millions for charity in the

:03:23. > :03:28.process of her run. We'll follow the progress of the tens of thousands of

:03:28. > :03:32.compet Triaz whether they are striving for a personal best or just

:03:32. > :03:37.looking to have a fun day out. There was quite a bit of sporting

:03:37. > :03:45.excitement on Deansgate yet as well. We'll look back on the best of the

:03:45. > :03:49.action from the great City Games. However fast or slow you are, the

:03:49. > :03:53.finishing line is always a welcome sight. We're head thering now to

:03:53. > :03:57.speak to Paula Radcliffe. 11 years ago now since you won gold in the

:03:57. > :04:02.Commonwealth Games. You must have happy memories? Very happy memories.

:04:02. > :04:08.It doesn't feel like 11 years ago. We were both on that night. Just so

:04:08. > :04:13.many special memories of the at MOT fear -- atmosphere in that stadium.

:04:14. > :04:20.The way the crowd God behind me. I wasn't fortunate enough to take part

:04:20. > :04:26.last year. Manchester is a very special place. Seb Coe said it,

:04:26. > :04:30.without the success of Manchester, we never would have had London?

:04:30. > :04:34.Manchester showed we could do it in this country. What a great show and

:04:34. > :04:39.how supportive the British public was of sporting events. What a great

:04:39. > :04:43.show it could be and really gave us the boost we could do it in London

:04:43. > :04:53.and we proved we could very well. Let's come on today and into the

:04:53. > :04:55.

:04:55. > :05:01.elite races. Until We say his best days are behind him, but he is still

:05:01. > :05:07.breaking records all the time. He just keeps getting faster and

:05:07. > :05:12.stronger. He slowed down a little bit, but he is coming back faster

:05:13. > :05:20.and faster. He also needs to watch the others in the race. It is going

:05:20. > :05:26.to be a tough race. Let's talk about the women's race, Tirunesh Dibaba,

:05:26. > :05:31.she is talking about stepping up for the marathon. She has already shown

:05:31. > :05:35.she can run very well on the roads, she has run a very fast 15

:05:35. > :05:40.kilometres on the ropes, she is keen to come here today and she looks

:05:40. > :05:46.really, really strong. She wanted to run London and was not able to get

:05:46. > :05:51.there because of that injury that flared up just before. She is fired

:05:51. > :05:57.up for a good track season and also wants to learn more about running on

:05:57. > :06:01.the roads. It is nice to see Helen back out here running, she won two

:06:01. > :06:07.macro years ago, it would be great to see her use it as a springboard

:06:07. > :06:15.for a very strong summer. It would be good to see her come out and run

:06:15. > :06:21.well. And of course Gemma Steel behind her. Thanks for the moment,

:06:21. > :06:30.let's take a look at what starts when the women's race starts

:06:30. > :06:34.shortly. In about half an hour it is the men's elite. Well, the first

:06:34. > :06:38.event of the day is the wheelchair race which started just before we

:06:38. > :06:47.came on air. An all British line-up and a favourite looks to be Simon

:06:47. > :06:51.Lawson, the defending champion here in Manchester. Jane Egan in the

:06:51. > :06:57.women's race looks to defend her title. It promises to be highly

:06:57. > :07:05.competitive. I will be catching up with the winner at the end. Sub

:07:05. > :07:10.recent Rumbold was here. He miraculously survived a cardiac

:07:10. > :07:13.arrest after his heart stopped beating. We will hear from him but

:07:13. > :07:21.for now Denise Lewis is on the front line with runners raising money for

:07:21. > :07:28.his charity. I am here with Phil Mason and some of the runners from

:07:28. > :07:33.the hearts and goals charity. Still, I know it is your first time

:07:33. > :07:37.running here, tell us a little bit about the charity and what its aims

:07:37. > :07:43.are. It is a partnership between Bolton Wanderers and North West

:07:43. > :07:49.ambulance. We are trying to put defibrillators into public places

:07:49. > :07:53.and to make people aware of this silent killer, 100,000 people die

:07:53. > :08:01.every year from sudden cardiac arrest. I was not aware of that

:08:01. > :08:05.until what happened. It is a major killer in this country. It is such

:08:05. > :08:12.an important part of what you are trying to raise here, bringing

:08:12. > :08:22.attention to what is a silent killer. Absolutely. When someone

:08:22. > :08:28.collapses it is a terrible thing. The good news is, he is alive, well

:08:28. > :08:34.and here today. We want to make sure other people have instant access to

:08:34. > :08:39.defibrillators. I wish you and the rest of the runners all the best. I

:08:39. > :08:49.hope you raise lots of money today. The elite runners are just behind

:08:49. > :08:56.

:08:56. > :09:00.me, Tirunesh Dibaba is just to my Ethiopian superstar Tirunesh

:09:01. > :09:05.Dibaba. Five-time world Cross country champion and three-time

:09:05. > :09:14.Olympic champion. She won the double at the Beijing Olympics, then we

:09:14. > :09:18.claimed her 10,000 crowd in London last year. Her closest challengers

:09:18. > :09:21.include two British athletes. Helen Clitheroe won the great Manchester

:09:21. > :09:27.run two macro years ago and has represented Great Britain at two

:09:27. > :09:33.Olympic Games. Gemma Steel was seventh in last year's half Marathon

:09:33. > :09:43.Championships. She has also won the European Cross country bronze in

:09:43. > :09:44.

:09:44. > :09:54.2011. Another athlete to watch out for is from Latvia. She has twice

:09:54. > :10:10.

:10:10. > :10:18.now. A great atmosphere down here, thousands watching at the top of

:10:18. > :10:25.Oxford Street. It is good morning to our commentary team. Hello to Paul

:10:25. > :10:32.Dickenson and Steve Cram. Good morning, everybody. The sun is

:10:32. > :10:40.shining down on all of the athletes. Helen Clitheroe, good to see her

:10:40. > :10:45.here. Gemma Steel looking for a good race, Susan Partridge will be

:10:45. > :10:49.representing Great Britain at the world Championships, Emma Pallant, a

:10:49. > :10:59.very talented youngster who has moved to the triathlon but is

:10:59. > :11:00.

:11:00. > :11:10.looking for a good performance. Perfect conditions best day of the

:11:10. > :11:14.

:11:14. > :11:20.year. Fabrice We'll be getting them under way shortly. I think all of us

:11:20. > :11:30.really excited to see how Tirunesh Dibaba is going to perform. I heard

:11:30. > :11:37.

:11:37. > :11:43.Paul talk about her earlier on, events these days. Getting

:11:43. > :11:47.introduced to all of the people. Susan will be going to Moscow. Only

:11:47. > :11:57.three women selected for the world Championships. She ran just inside

:11:57. > :12:02.the time in the London Marathon this year. Gemma Steel, a very talented

:12:02. > :12:11.athlete who has really come on in the last two macro years. She knows

:12:11. > :12:16.this course well, as indeed does Jelena Prokopcuka. I was like for a

:12:16. > :12:26.walk along the towpath yesterday and I saw her for -- preparing for this

:12:26. > :12:27.

:12:27. > :12:30.race today. Helen Clitheroe, she had a disappointing year last year after

:12:30. > :12:39.a brilliant 2011. She had intended to move up to the marathon in

:12:39. > :12:45.London, but after a bit of glue it curtailed her preparations. Her

:12:45. > :12:48.marathon debut was postponed until later in the year, as indeed was the

:12:48. > :12:58.debut of Tirunesh Dibaba. Perhaps the greatest distance runner on the

:12:58. > :13:08.track. Tirunesh Dibaba heads up this women's elite field. The course

:13:08. > :13:09.

:13:09. > :13:13.record, incidentally, also set by an Ethiopian. Fabrice Muamba Gets them

:13:13. > :13:22.under way. No pacemakers today, it will be all down to their own

:13:22. > :13:29.efforts. An opportunity for some quick times. A slight breeze, but

:13:29. > :13:39.almost perfect conditions. You hear some non-elite athletes talking

:13:39. > :13:54.

:13:54. > :13:58.about how hot it is. It is not that for whatever reason. The first six,

:13:58. > :14:08.700 metres, they just wind their way down behind where we are sitting in

:14:08. > :14:14.Deansgate. They basically had out towards Old Trafford and down to

:14:14. > :14:20.Salford quays, which is now the home of BBC sport. That tall building

:14:20. > :14:27.there, we are right in front of there. We are sitting right in front

:14:27. > :14:31.of the finish line. They take a left turn, you can probably see Old

:14:31. > :14:37.Trafford, there it is. Of course, it has been in the headlines for all

:14:37. > :14:47.sorts of reasons. Sir Alex Ferguson has finally drawn the curtain on a

:14:47. > :14:51.

:14:51. > :14:53.fantastic career. A fast course, really out and back. A course which

:14:54. > :15:01.certainly has the potential for a few of these athletes to go very

:15:01. > :15:11.quickly. Tirunesh Dibaba has tucked herself in nicely. Let's give Paula

:15:11. > :15:12.

:15:12. > :15:21.another go. Testing, one, two macro, three. I was saying, a beautiful day

:15:21. > :15:28.for running a marathon. It is. For these athletes out here now, perfect

:15:28. > :15:33.conditions. Not too warm, but a beautiful, sunny day to show off

:15:33. > :15:39.Manchester. At the moment it does not look like Tirunesh Dibaba is

:15:39. > :15:48.keen on pushing the pace too fast. Somebody called Paula Radcliffe has

:15:48. > :15:54.the best time ever recorded for ten K on the roads. I think anything low

:15:54. > :15:59.31 minutes, she would be happy with. I am curious as to where she is at

:15:59. > :16:06.right now. We know she had some problems with the mileage, we have

:16:06. > :16:10.always suspected it might be an issue for her. Of course, now she

:16:10. > :16:20.has a big track season ahead of her, she is may be caught between the two

:16:20. > :16:21.

:16:21. > :16:27.macro a little bit. Helen Clitheroe may be the same. She is going to run

:16:27. > :16:34.another race in New York. Let's here from Helen herself. It feels great

:16:34. > :16:41.this year, for me it is really about getting back into racing. Last year

:16:41. > :16:46.I was pulling out of races. I had to have quite a long period of time. It

:16:46. > :16:50.is about getting back into racing and getting that feeling again. I

:16:50. > :17:00.have no expectations about what I am going to do in this race, I just

:17:00. > :17:09.

:17:09. > :17:14.want to enjoy the experience and get back into racing mode again. It is

:17:14. > :17:19.difficult, Paula, when you've been such a good track athlete to make

:17:19. > :17:26.that mental transition, to think of yourself as a marathon runner, road

:17:26. > :17:32.racer. Oh, hang on, a bit of a trip there. Nasty fall, there. It is not

:17:32. > :17:36.Susan Partridge. She's still in the pack. Bib bib just took an advantage

:17:36. > :17:44.to get a bit of a lead and a jump on the field. It was pretty slow

:17:44. > :17:51.through the first kilometre. There was a tangle of feet and somebody

:17:51. > :17:56.went down. I think as soon as Tirunesh Dibaba moved to the front

:17:56. > :18:01.there was a change of positions. Let me have another look to see if I can

:18:01. > :18:06.work out who caused it. Let's go back to the wheelchair.

:18:06. > :18:10.wheelchairs have been going for a little over 20 minutes. Leveredles,

:18:10. > :18:16.Simon Lawson it is who comes into the home straight first well ahead

:18:16. > :18:22.of anybody. He has over a minute's lead. Victory number two in the

:18:22. > :18:32.Great Manchester Run for 30-year-old Simon Lawson, who's the defending

:18:32. > :18:32.

:18:32. > :18:42.champion. Started off tentatively as Stuart Bloor and Hogg took it on.

:18:42. > :18:47.But he's pulled away from everything. A fine victory.

:18:47. > :18:54.I think it was Christelle Daunay whopping went down. She was caught

:18:54. > :19:00.from behind. Straight up. You mentioned the pace wasn't that

:19:01. > :19:06.quick. Hopefully not too much damage done. Seems OK. A slow first

:19:06. > :19:13.kilometre. Tirunesh Dibaba decided enough was enough. She already has

:19:13. > :19:18.an eight or nine metre lead. A little surge. She looks like she

:19:18. > :19:24.means business. She looks like she's pushing on and making a hard, honest

:19:24. > :19:34.race for it. Heroin Terre preparations would have been a

:19:34. > :19:44.little perturbed. She's a little fragile in her lower legs. She's

:19:44. > :19:45.

:19:45. > :19:49.concentrating back on the track. Second place finisher in the

:19:49. > :19:57.wheelchair race, Phil hog. Simon Lawson, who eventually won this

:19:58. > :20:03.event pulled away. That's a victory for Lawson by well over a minute.

:20:03. > :20:08.Meanwhile, still heading away from the finish line Tirunesh Dibaba,

:20:08. > :20:12.second kilometre about five seconds quicker. All down to her. Gemma

:20:13. > :20:17.Steel leading the chasing group. Jelena Prokopcuk Clitheroe and

:20:17. > :20:27.Pallant all in there. Looks like already they will be settling for a

:20:27. > :20:33.battle for second place. So, 3: 15, 3: 09, six sect of seconds quicker.

:20:33. > :20:40.She put a lot of work in preparing for London. As you were saying,

:20:40. > :20:45.Paula, I think the suspicion is she may not, as talented as she is, the

:20:45. > :20:50.work required might be something her body's not just up to. Nothing wrong

:20:50. > :20:56.with her attitude. As you said, she's a little fragile or has been

:20:56. > :21:03.in the past. That's the thing about the marathon. You need to have the

:21:03. > :21:08.talent to run the distance but your body needs to about able to

:21:08. > :21:13.withstand the training. Tirunesh Dibaba has had trouble when she's

:21:13. > :21:17.tried to pick up the mileage and run on the road. Helen's slightly

:21:17. > :21:21.different. Helen's heart will always lie on the track in the shorter

:21:22. > :21:27.distances. She does have amazing range stretching from 1500 metres,

:21:27. > :21:32.she won the European Cup in Gateshead in 2000. Going all the way

:21:32. > :21:37.up to hopefully the marathon but definitely the half marathon. I

:21:37. > :21:41.think she ran a half in New Orleans and it didn't go as well as she

:21:41. > :21:45.would have hoped. She felt like the preparation wasn't there to go into

:21:45. > :21:50.London and she still wanted to run well and run well on the track this

:21:50. > :21:57.year. Of course, all of that discussions centres around Mo Farah

:21:57. > :22:00.to some extent. You can see the same thing. Not everybody has made the

:22:00. > :22:05.accepted transition up the distances. It is not as easy as

:22:05. > :22:10.everybody thinks it is. It is not just about ability. They have great

:22:10. > :22:15.ability. It is whether your body can stand up to the rigours of marathon

:22:15. > :22:20.training week in, week out, month in, month out. Tirunesh Dibaba doing

:22:20. > :22:25.what she does best over 10,000 metres. She's pulling away easily.

:22:25. > :22:32.The others had a little go to stay with her. Decided it wasn't the best

:22:32. > :22:40.tech particular. If you want to come second in this race you accept

:22:41. > :22:46.Tirunesh Dibaba's already the winner. That was 3K. It might have

:22:47. > :22:52.been quicker. Around about the three minute kilometre split. She's

:22:52. > :22:57.picking it up. She looks like she's running very easily and smoothly. It

:22:57. > :23:02.is very decentive. She's covering the ground pretty fast. The girls

:23:02. > :23:12.behind have decided they are in a different race and she's in her own

:23:12. > :23:16.

:23:16. > :23:24.personal time trial to see what she can do out there today. Yes, 3.3.

:23:25. > :23:33.She'd have to average 3.6 or 3.7. Big lead early on for Tirunesh

:23:33. > :23:39.Dibaba. I'm here on the VIP bus with Tina

:23:39. > :23:45.O'Brien, star of Coronation Street, Waterloo Road and Strictly Come

:23:45. > :23:49.Dancing. You're teaching as well as acting? Yes, I'm teaching drama to

:23:49. > :23:54.children which I love. This is a special occasion. You're a local

:23:54. > :24:02.girl. Running to raise funds for a local cause? The Manchester

:24:02. > :24:05.Children's Hospital. We're raising money for raising money to have a

:24:05. > :24:09.doctor a Clown Doctor in the hospital all the time so they can do

:24:09. > :24:13.things with the children, make balloons, make the children smile.

:24:13. > :24:18.Especially when they are going through such hard times. What kind

:24:18. > :24:23.of preparations do you put into today? Try to run a lot but I

:24:23. > :24:28.haven't run for the past few days so I'm nervous now. I think the

:24:28. > :24:32.adrenaline and crowd support will Keefe everyone going. You're nervous

:24:32. > :24:37.but when you start running and see the back of everyone's T-shirts and

:24:37. > :24:43.who they are running for, it makes you emotional. Proud to be from

:24:43. > :24:48.here? Very proud and to have such a beautiful day. Enjoy it. Good luck.

:24:48. > :24:52.Well done an raising money for a great cause. Thank you. I'm really

:24:52. > :24:58.excited. Great sights back at the start. They

:24:58. > :25:03.are all gathering waiting for their turn to get on to the streets here.

:25:03. > :25:09.But Tirunesh Dibaba has a clear road ahead of her and behind her. This is

:25:09. > :25:17.the chasing group. Gemma Steel, Jelena Prokopcuk on the far side.

:25:17. > :25:23.Helen Clitheroe closest to the camera. Katie Brough in the pack

:25:23. > :25:27.there. It is interesting, isn't it, athletes come in and want to run

:25:27. > :25:34.against the great athletes. Of course, what happens is as soon as

:25:34. > :25:39.she goes they are pretty much in their own race. As she is running

:25:39. > :25:43.past, I'm not sure how much of a football fan she is. Certainly

:25:43. > :25:47.plenty of the other Ethiopian and Kenyan runners follow the

:25:47. > :25:52.Premiership football a lot. Are big fans. A lot say, who's your

:25:52. > :25:59.favourite team and they go "Manchester united." ! Doesn't

:25:59. > :26:05.matter where you go in the world. Maybe Tirunesh Dibaba looking

:26:05. > :26:13.forward to running past Old Trafford. More likely she's looking

:26:13. > :26:19.for the 5km split. She seems pretty focussed out there. Making sure

:26:19. > :26:23.she's running the pace she wants to. We saw a slight incline and now

:26:23. > :26:31.there's a slight downhill. That's as much up and down as it gets. It is a

:26:31. > :26:41.pretty fast course. She's able to get her rhythm going. She's

:26:41. > :26:41.

:26:41. > :26:46.definitely through the 5k and pushing on to close in negative

:26:46. > :26:50.splits finishing comfortably inside that course record. Ahead of that

:26:50. > :26:56.pack, just watching further down the road, Katie Brough is dropping off

:26:56. > :27:04.that pack. A little surge from Jelena Prokopcuk. There she is.

:27:04. > :27:10.Jelena Prokopcuk and Gemma Steel, then Helen clothe rear. Katie Brough

:27:10. > :27:18.is falling off a little bit. There are no real hills here. A slight

:27:18. > :27:23.climb up to old faff Ford and then slightly downhill coming into

:27:23. > :27:27.Salford Quays. Really perfect conditions. Slight breeze out there

:27:27. > :27:32.but really nothing to speak of. Gemma, she's threatened to burst

:27:32. > :27:37.through. She's on the world cross-country team. Somebody who I'm

:27:37. > :27:43.sure has a lot of abilities. She's really come on a lot in the last few

:27:43. > :27:48.years. She's a very good athlete. She's very strong. Deceptively quick

:27:48. > :27:52.as well. I saw her up in the training camp last year training

:27:52. > :27:58.really well at the beginning of the year. She came down to this race, I

:27:59. > :28:02.think, and raced disappointingly. She was struggling to get over some

:28:02. > :28:07.post-viral fatigue all year. Didn't really get the year she wanted to

:28:07. > :28:11.last year. She has started to turn that round and is in pretty good

:28:11. > :28:16.shape. It will be interesting to see what she can do. She probably races

:28:16. > :28:26.best on the road when she doesn't have to put her head to split times.

:28:26. > :28:32.Just thinks about running hard and racing, basically. Coached by John

:28:32. > :28:40.Nuttall. A lot of the British athletes have come back from a stint

:28:40. > :28:45.abroad for training. Altitude training part of the British team's

:28:45. > :28:55.endurance programme. Used well over the last few years. Salford Quays

:28:55. > :28:56.

:28:56. > :29:04.area. A bit quiet on a Sunday morning. I hope there's some people

:29:04. > :29:10.working at the BBC there anyway! A lot of these city 10Ks are fast

:29:10. > :29:14.courses but they don't always go through well populated areas for

:29:14. > :29:20.obvious reasons. Sometimes it is a bit of a lonely trek for the

:29:20. > :29:28.athletes. Going well. Very well. Going well. Slowed down a

:29:28. > :29:32.little. She's probably on pace there. She is for about 31.20. She

:29:32. > :29:38.needs to pick it up a little in the second half if she wants to attack

:29:38. > :29:45.that course record. She seems to be just happy to cruise along. I'm not

:29:45. > :29:48.sure she's as focussed as she said she is on that time. She's out for a

:29:48. > :29:58.nice Sunday morning run. Then go back racing on the track with a bit

:29:58. > :30:03.

:30:03. > :30:08.of a strength trial-out today. Tirunesh Dibaba will have a pretty

:30:08. > :30:13.good track season ahead depending on where she decides to race. Her

:30:13. > :30:17.sister have already won the Diamond league five kilometres. It will be

:30:17. > :30:26.interesting to see when the arguments start in the family about

:30:26. > :30:29.who might be representing Ethiopia her little sister is fast improving.

:30:29. > :30:39.Gemma Steel pushing on with the second group but they are a long way

:30:39. > :30:46.

:30:46. > :30:52.has become a major event. We are in the 10th anniversary year, and over

:30:52. > :30:58.the years this city has taken the run into its heart. Today's event

:30:58. > :31:02.was tinged with sadness because this week Manchester lost one of its own.

:31:02. > :31:06.Drummer Lee Rigby lost his life in an act of violence which was so

:31:06. > :31:11.unprecedented it has brought the whole country together to mourn his

:31:11. > :31:17.loss. He was born in this city and live just down the road. He was

:31:17. > :31:27.actually supposed to be here this weekend, and now Manchester and all

:31:27. > :31:27.

:31:27. > :32:35.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 68 seconds

:32:35. > :32:40.watching will stand silent for one remembrance of Drummer Lee Rigby.

:32:40. > :32:44.But of course so many people have all sorts of stories why they are

:32:44. > :32:50.competing today, lots of people with personal tragedies raising millions

:32:50. > :32:57.of pounds for chat -- for charity. We will be telling you more of those

:32:57. > :33:05.stories later on. Tirunesh Dibaba, serenely progressing back towards

:33:05. > :33:09.those scenes. Back towards the city centre. As Paula was saying, not as

:33:09. > :33:16.quickly as we might have thought. Once you have that sort of lead,

:33:16. > :33:21.perhaps there will be bigger races in the future, so a nice performance

:33:21. > :33:28.today will give her a lot of confidence. At the moment she has

:33:28. > :33:33.got a big, big lead. So, we are about ready for the start of the

:33:33. > :33:42.maths race and of course the elite men's as part of that. A good field

:33:42. > :33:47.we have got here, headed up by Haile Gebrselassie. He is well loved here.

:33:47. > :33:55.Wilson Kipsang was favourite in the marathon last year, took the bronze

:33:55. > :33:58.medal in the end. And Moses Kipsiro from Uganda. Another man who is

:33:58. > :34:07.thinking of moving up to the marathon, they are all thinking of

:34:07. > :34:13.doing it. He ran about 23 kilometres in the Warsaw Marathon before

:34:13. > :34:18.dropping out, getting a little taste of what it is all about. Mo Farah

:34:18. > :34:25.will be running a ten kilometres in London tomorrow before his first big

:34:25. > :34:32.track appearance next week. Looking forward to that. Moses Kipsiro from

:34:32. > :34:39.Uganda, a brilliant commonwealth games contestant. Won the 5000 and

:34:39. > :34:44.10,000 in Delhi three years ago Wilson Kipsang looks so good.

:34:44. > :34:50.Certainly was the favourite going into the Olympics, did not run well

:34:50. > :34:56.on the day, was impetuous early on and paid for it later. He had a

:34:56. > :35:02.disappointing London Marathon this year. You cannot really use the word

:35:02. > :35:07.disappointment too much with Haile Gebrselassie, it has been one long

:35:07. > :35:14.career of success after success. A real beaming smile on his face. He

:35:14. > :35:22.is about 53 now, I think. It says 39 there. We are not quite sure exactly

:35:22. > :35:32.what his ages. Anyway, it is great to see him here. Around 40,000 will

:35:32. > :35:39.

:35:39. > :35:45.take part today in this great right through the morning, cannot

:35:45. > :35:49.fit them all on the roads at the same time. These privileged few of

:35:49. > :35:54.the 40,000 get to set everybody off and get a clear run ahead of them.

:35:54. > :36:04.After that it will be a clear, long procession as people enjoy their

:36:04. > :36:13.

:36:13. > :36:20.chance to take part in a fantastic the rafters, we had the city gains

:36:20. > :36:26.yesterday down at Deansgate. It was well supported and the sun has come

:36:26. > :36:31.out over the weekend. It has been a great weekend for athletics in

:36:31. > :36:37.Manchester and a great day to be setting out on this ten K. Look at

:36:37. > :36:44.all those people waiting their turn patiently. They will be released out

:36:44. > :36:54.on this route. Out to Old Trafford, into Salford, turn around and come

:36:54. > :36:55.

:36:55. > :37:02.back. And they head back past all of the thousands heading in the other

:37:02. > :37:08.direction. So, Fabrice Muamba is going to have a sore hand at the end

:37:08. > :37:13.of this if he keeps doing that. Rates to see him here. As you are

:37:13. > :37:20.probably aware, representatives from every single football club are

:37:20. > :37:27.running to raise money. Fabricius has become a real inspirational

:37:27. > :37:35.figure himself, of course. -- Mark Fabrice Muamba. Tirunesh Dibaba, how

:37:35. > :37:41.is she doing? She is still running very very smoothly. She is not

:37:41. > :37:50.focused too much on the time the lead at halfway was already 38

:37:50. > :37:57.seconds. She is probably looking ahead to what she has got coming up.

:37:57. > :38:07.She is not trying to go too far ahead. We are looking at Jelena

:38:07. > :38:18.

:38:18. > :38:26.predominantly marathon runners. Your lane has run a fast time, she has

:38:26. > :38:29.come back to run pretty fast in Japan in spring of this year.

:38:29. > :38:35.Tirunesh Dibaba is comfortable, I do not think she is focused on running

:38:35. > :38:45.too fast. She is still running at a fairly decent pace and she will

:38:45. > :38:49.

:38:49. > :38:55.certainly pick that up in the closing 2-macro kilometres. Christel

:38:55. > :38:59.tornado has recovered well, from that fall, she did not panic. She

:38:59. > :39:09.was well off that second group and has done a good job of picking them

:39:09. > :39:12.

:39:12. > :39:17.off. We are neither a minute behind Tirunesh Dibaba. The finish is

:39:17. > :39:25.slightly uphill, but really only slightly. If she turns on some of

:39:25. > :39:30.that remind pace that she has she could get close to that 31.7. She is

:39:30. > :39:40.well capable of running a sub three minute for a final kilometre.

:39:40. > :39:47.Especially as she turns into Deansgate and sees the crowd. As we

:39:47. > :39:53.look back we see Gemma Steel and Helen Clitheroe. Now we're going to

:39:53. > :40:03.slot into the men's race I think. will see to nicht above are going in

:40:03. > :40:12.

:40:12. > :40:17.side. And Moses Kipsiro leading them out a little bit at the moment. We

:40:17. > :40:22.keep talking about the great Haile Gebrselassie, but Wilson Kipsang is

:40:22. > :40:28.a great athlete. He had a really disappointing London Marathon. I

:40:28. > :40:34.knew he had had a few problems with his preparations, but he is a good

:40:34. > :40:41.runner, he is a good road racer as well. This will be quite

:40:41. > :40:50.interesting. Absolutely. Yesterday Haile Gebrselassie was talking about

:40:50. > :40:58.gunning for the Masters world over 40s. He ran in Switzerland last week

:40:58. > :41:01.and he ran fast. He is in good shape. But he says if he really goes

:41:01. > :41:11.for that time he puts himself in danger of being shot down in the

:41:11. > :41:21.

:41:21. > :41:31.Dibaba going in the opposite direction, leading that women's race

:41:31. > :41:34.

:41:34. > :41:40.by over a minute. She has not got far to go now. There she is, 800

:41:40. > :41:49.metres. If you look at the clock, she is aiming for 31.07. That is a

:41:49. > :41:54.possibility. That is definitely within her, she has picked it up.

:41:54. > :42:00.She has obviously had a little bit of an inkling and thought, I can run

:42:00. > :42:04.three minutes easily. Slightly uphill from the roundabout. She will

:42:04. > :42:14.come within sight of us very shortly, but I think this is on for

:42:14. > :42:19.the course record. I think so. You could see she was starting to use --

:42:19. > :42:25.lose a little bit of focus, there was no one there to push her along.

:42:25. > :42:31.But she can see the finish, she can work out times that she should be

:42:31. > :42:37.running and she is well capable of closing close to 2.20. We might see

:42:37. > :42:43.under 31 minutes here. Just easing off an enthusiastic supporter there,

:42:43. > :42:46.but he would not have lasted much longer at the pace she is going. She

:42:46. > :42:56.will come under the railway bridge and have a couple of hundred metres

:42:56. > :42:58.

:42:58. > :43:07.to go. Sensing the finish. She is moving very, very quickly indeed.

:43:07. > :43:11.Her personal best is 31.30, that is slow slow compared to what she can

:43:11. > :43:20.do on the track. Not many people have similar times on the road and

:43:20. > :43:25.the tracks. One last look behind, but this is how is easily.

:43:25. > :43:29.Absolutely, just looking to see if we can see her turning into

:43:29. > :43:37.Deansgate. She is really focused, you can see the determination on her

:43:37. > :43:41.face. She is looking up to see if she can see the clock. She is

:43:41. > :43:47.focused on getting that course record and will give everything in

:43:47. > :43:51.the closing stages. Just 100 metres to go for Tirunesh Dibaba, the

:43:51. > :43:56.Olympic champion stretching out again. Fastest in the world this

:43:56. > :44:04.year, and a new course record, winning in style, what a super

:44:04. > :44:11.finish. Very, very strong over the last couple of kilometres. Showing

:44:11. > :44:18.her class, showing her ability and showing why she is the world's best.

:44:18. > :44:23.No wonder you were looking at that. Very, very good indeed. We will get

:44:23. > :44:33.an official time, but it could be about eight I think. That is pretty

:44:33. > :44:37.

:44:37. > :44:44.impressive because it was the .15 in the first kilometre. I think she

:44:44. > :44:48.will be in and around what she wants. She has run not much over 15

:44:48. > :44:55.minutes for the last five kilometres and the qualification for the 5000

:44:55. > :45:01.metres for the World Championship this year is about 15.15. Here is

:45:01. > :45:06.our second placed athlete Jelena Prokopcuka. She has bounced back

:45:06. > :45:10.from that spring marathon to come back in good shape. She is probably

:45:10. > :45:17.not looking too much at a track season this year, she will be

:45:17. > :45:22.looking more towards a marathon. I think she has run here in Manchester

:45:22. > :45:28.2-macro or three times at least. But she has run strongly today.

:45:28. > :45:37.takes second place, and Christelle Daunay will be coming in in second

:45:37. > :45:46.place. She did not panic, a nice performance. A good performance from

:45:46. > :45:50.her very close to her personal best. Official times will be there later.

:45:50. > :45:59.Gemma Steel looked for a long time like she was going to do really

:45:59. > :46:09.well. She will be the first British athlete, will she get forth? Under a

:46:09. > :46:10.

:46:10. > :46:16.bit of pressure, just about have enough in the end. Helen Clitheroe,

:46:16. > :46:19.not quite what she would have expected after a good stint of

:46:19. > :46:26.training at altitude, well outside 33 minutes. I do not think she will

:46:26. > :46:31.be too happy with that. She was pacing in Shanghai last week, so

:46:31. > :46:37.maybe that is still in her legs a little bit. Hopefully it will not

:46:37. > :46:41.affect the rest of her season. women's race completed, the men is

:46:41. > :46:48.just getting warmed up. Haile Gebrselassie has decided he just

:46:48. > :46:54.wants to push it on a little bit. What a familiar sight that is as

:46:54. > :47:04.they stormed past Old Trafford. Closed for the summer, certainly as

:47:04. > :47:08.

:47:08. > :47:13.far as football is concerned. Most of them are off on their holidays.

:47:13. > :47:23.You can see Haile looking around at the other guys saying we need to

:47:23. > :47:36.

:47:36. > :47:46.pick this up a little bit and make sure the pace stays honest. Kipsiro,

:47:46. > :47:48.

:47:48. > :47:54.Kipsang then Stephen Mokoka. Let's hear from Haile Gebrselassie highly.

:47:54. > :48:01.When you come to Manchester, always you feel like you're here to do

:48:01. > :48:11.sport. Manchester is a sports city. Big clubs in the world here in

:48:11. > :48:12.

:48:12. > :48:17.Manchester. If you look at the city itself, people are running. Here in

:48:17. > :48:21.the BUPA Manchester run, people are running the whole day. Last year,

:48:22. > :48:31.after I finished all my race and everything, still people starting.

:48:32. > :48:36.

:48:36. > :48:45.Amazing. Ready as ever. The only split we can give you for sure three

:48:45. > :48:51.3K. That was 8: 28. Which isn't that fast but it is solid enough. Highly

:48:51. > :49:01.will -- hily will want to make sure he wins this. He has won in the past

:49:01. > :49:03.

:49:03. > :49:13.but the course record stands from 2007. Mo did training with Kogo for

:49:13. > :49:17.

:49:17. > :49:27.a while? I think he did.Haile leading them through in a good pace.

:49:27. > :49:29.

:49:29. > :49:33.Jonny Mellor dropped off that lead group. It is fantastic Lebed is

:49:33. > :49:40.still producing good performances. I can't call people old. They are way

:49:40. > :49:47.younger than me. It is getting the big thing. People carrying on.

:49:47. > :49:55.Haile, no reason he shouldn't if he can perform at this level. 14: 08

:49:55. > :50:02.through 5K. He's comfortably on pace to beat that world over-40 pace. It

:50:02. > :50:07.is held by Katerini from Portugal. He will be thinking about winning

:50:08. > :50:13.the race. Barring any disasters he knows he can beat that today. He

:50:13. > :50:19.needs to keep focus. I think we'll see negative splits. I think we'll

:50:19. > :50:29.see these guys really race now they are past halfway with a fast couple

:50:29. > :50:30.

:50:30. > :50:36.of closing kilometres. That group still tightly packed but Lebid

:50:36. > :50:41.struggling a bit. Will be interesting to see if Kipsang can

:50:41. > :50:48.challenge hi hi. He is a great athlete. Let's get his thoughts. See

:50:48. > :50:57.what he was expecting today. Very happy to be invited to this race. It

:50:57. > :51:04.is my fast time. To compete in Manchester. I think my training has

:51:04. > :51:10.been going very well. Now I can see the weather is good, with the strong

:51:10. > :51:20.guys and I hope tomorrow we are going to have a good race and my

:51:20. > :51:21.

:51:21. > :51:27.expectation is to run a good time. You know I was in Kenya with the

:51:27. > :51:33.British endurance squad back in January. I watched a track session

:51:33. > :51:37.which Wilson Kipsang was in. He had to be pointed out to me. They did

:51:37. > :51:41.about 15,000 metre reps. He wasn't in the front of the group. I

:51:41. > :51:47.remember thinking goodness me, at that point Wilson Kipsang is one of

:51:47. > :51:51.the fast fastest marathon runners ever, it shows you the talent and

:51:51. > :51:56.ability that was there. It was a tough workout in January. He was

:51:56. > :52:01.working really hard on that day. shows you the depth and strength

:52:01. > :52:05.they have in Kenya. Wilson Kipsang's strength lies on the road. He will

:52:05. > :52:10.have come away from London disappointed. He didn't really get

:52:10. > :52:13.involved in the almost suicidal early pace and ran his own pace but

:52:13. > :52:19.still didn't come through as strongly as he would have hoped. He

:52:20. > :52:25.looks like he's engaging a lot more today, out for a fast race and

:52:25. > :52:33.committing fully to this run. Kipsiro looks like he's starting to

:52:33. > :52:38.struggle a bit or watch a bit more how hie's running the race. Le Birks

:52:39. > :52:44.id has lost touch with the group but is still running strongly in fifth.

:52:44. > :52:49.I heard leading into London he had problems in training and he had

:52:49. > :52:54.missed a bit of work, Kipsang. You wouldn't commit if you were doubtful

:52:54. > :53:02.about your preparation. That was such a blistering early pace. Yes,

:53:02. > :53:06.he still ran 2: 07. But by the high standards being set it was a

:53:06. > :53:13.disappointing performance. He had his big chance in London. He was in

:53:13. > :53:18.good shape. I think he messed that up. Way to impet ewous early on. I

:53:18. > :53:22.know he said he didn't really like the course but I think it was his

:53:22. > :53:27.tactics on the day which lost him the gold medal. I didn't judge the

:53:27. > :53:31.race right. He didn't show the same skills and the same talent he had

:53:31. > :53:34.when he'd run in Frankfurt, when he'd run very close to the world

:53:34. > :53:38.record there. He came away a little disappointed from that. Maybe went

:53:38. > :53:43.into the training for the London Marathon this year a little more

:53:43. > :53:48.fired up and hit a few bumps, a few little niggles which meant he didn't

:53:48. > :53:53.have that confidence starting in London. When they started so fast,

:53:53. > :53:57.he was just afraid to go with it knowing he didn't have the

:53:57. > :54:02.background in there. Lots of people will not be running as fast as thee

:54:02. > :54:08.guys but certainly running a good race. Someone I'm waiting to see run

:54:08. > :54:12.her first 10K race is Denise Lewis. One day? Well, it is not long to go

:54:12. > :54:22.before the masses start their race. I've been joined by Nathan. Who are

:54:22. > :54:22.

:54:22. > :54:28.running for today and why? A charity called Bubetty Pride. It is a school

:54:28. > :54:33.in Tanzania. We hope to raise money for volunteering in the school and

:54:33. > :54:38.so our students can have a trip out there and do some volunteering out.

:54:38. > :54:48.There Looking very smart. How are you feeling? Very nofshous but

:54:48. > :54:48.

:54:49. > :54:55.excited. Looking forward to it. of you luck, wish you well.

:54:55. > :55:01.MrMuamba has been joined by MrRutherford. Greg says he still

:55:01. > :55:08.hasn't really calmed down yet. He's heading off to America next week for

:55:08. > :55:14.a big long jump competition. He's enjoying being introduced as the

:55:14. > :55:20.Olympic champion. He'll be that for the rest of his life. Greg will be

:55:20. > :55:25.ajoying the sights. -- enjoying the sights. For a 10K you can't have

:55:25. > :55:35.40,000 people out there at the same time. They are set off in different

:55:35. > :55:44.

:55:44. > :55:49.ways. All wearing white numbers this group here. All very well organised.

:55:49. > :55:59.So, around 25 minutes after the elites and first group got underway,

:55:59. > :56:11.

:56:11. > :56:17.the second wave about to go. Watches at the ready. SIREN BLARES

:56:17. > :56:24.Brilliant. Back at the front. Haile still pushing on. Looks like we've

:56:24. > :56:30.lost the South African, Stephen Mokoka. We've Kipsang and Kipsiro

:56:30. > :56:39.still there. Kipsang looking like he's struggling a little. A pace put

:56:39. > :56:44.on. There's a rise as they come towards old -- Old Trafford. Kipsang

:56:44. > :56:50.looks like he's having to work to stay with these two. You saw the

:56:50. > :56:55.expression on his face change from the very smooth, in control, relaxed

:56:55. > :57:01.face earlier to a little frown. He's maybe just slotting in behind to get

:57:01. > :57:11.a sheltered ride. There owes not too much wind out there today. Where

:57:11. > :57:13.

:57:13. > :57:19.Kipsiro was looking like he was struggling, now for me, it's Kipsang

:57:19. > :57:25.Lebid in fifth place on his own. Suehiro Ishikawa, the Japanese

:57:26. > :57:34.athlete still leading the rest. He's a long way behind Lebid. He's

:57:34. > :57:40.working hard. He definitely look likes it. He always looks like he's

:57:40. > :57:45.really strained. He doesn't look comfortable at all. He's fooled me

:57:45. > :57:51.at times thinking he won't come through and he does. So, just about

:57:51. > :57:58.a couple of kilometres to go for these guys. Just over. And Kipsang

:57:58. > :58:08.just having a little glance behind. That's never a good thing. There's

:58:08. > :58:08.

:58:08. > :58:17.the 8km split. 22: 26. Kipsiro's been in good form this year. Fourth

:58:17. > :58:23.in a freezing cold race. Kipsiro spends a lot of his time in Kenya

:58:23. > :58:29.training. He knows quite a few of the Kenyan athletes pretty well.

:58:29. > :58:35.Kipsiro does train out in Kenya quite a bit. Mo Farah has linked in

:58:35. > :58:39.with him quite a few times to train. Wilson Kipsang and Moses Kipsiro

:58:39. > :58:44.will know each other pretty well. It will be interesting to see how early

:58:44. > :58:50.hi hi will wind this up a little bit. He's probably not as confident

:58:50. > :58:55.in his closing 100 metres finish as he would have been a few years back.

:58:55. > :59:01.Hi hi not looking distressed but that right arm there always starts

:59:01. > :59:10.to get a little more acsen you too eighted. We all have little things

:59:10. > :59:13.when we become tired which are more noticeable. He says he did that

:59:13. > :59:21.because he carried his books to school in that arm. Why you would

:59:21. > :59:26.want to three your books around, who knows. I suppose it is the way I

:59:26. > :59:34.would nod my head and it would get worse. He's still looking controlled

:59:34. > :59:41.and relaxed out there. He's cutting across Moses Kipsiro out there.

:59:41. > :59:45.Wilson Kipsang's rallying a little. Looked as though he was struggling

:59:45. > :59:53.but Wilson Kipsang may be anticipating the finish. We know

:59:53. > :59:59.Moses Kipsiro can finish quickly. Not sure whether Kipsang sprinting

:59:59. > :00:03.is there. Frankfurt was his break through a few years ago. Kipsang

:00:03. > :00:08.looking relaxed. Haile well aware of the danger. He's had this his own

:00:08. > :00:14.way on many occasions here in Manchester. He's won this on-Five-0

:00:14. > :00:21.cakeses. Will it be five in a row for Haile here? Can he hold off the

:00:21. > :00:27.challenge from these two? ? These two maybe expected Haile to have

:00:27. > :00:33.picked it up a bit more before this now and are wondering whether she

:00:33. > :00:37.should pick up the pace or keep in reserve anything which may happen in

:00:37. > :00:45.the finishing stages. But it is making your mind up time. They must

:00:45. > :00:51.be inside the last kilometre now. Just past 9km point. This bit Haile

:00:51. > :00:54.has an advantage. If you know how the finish pans out you know when to

:00:54. > :00:59.make your effort. Egg one of the others to make an effort and you can

:00:59. > :01:04.respond off that. He has an advantage here over Kipsang and

:01:04. > :01:09.Kipsiro. He's done it so many times before. This will be late. It is not

:01:09. > :01:12.a break them and come cruising in waving to the crowd. It will be a

:01:12. > :01:16.big effort over the last few hundred metres. As the crowds are gathering

:01:16. > :01:21.here, there are a lot of people here at the finish line now. They are

:01:21. > :01:26.being told what's happening. They are aware there are three men in

:01:26. > :01:30.contention here. They've less than half a mile to go. Cross the main

:01:30. > :01:35.road, cross the roundabout. Take a little left. From that point on they

:01:35. > :01:40.can... See the finish. Kipsang, Kipsiro and hi highly. It is a long

:01:40. > :01:44.run into the finish. Ken sang decided to push it on. Haile, just

:01:44. > :01:48.for the moment, struggling to go with that. A couple of years ago he

:01:48. > :01:53.would have covered that easily. He just doesn't have the same pop in

:01:53. > :01:57.his legs. He has a lot on his plate, a lot of different businesses

:01:57. > :02:03.running in Ethiopia. Typically his day is get his training done in the

:02:03. > :02:11.morning, then go into work. He told me yesterday he's opening up a

:02:11. > :02:14.coffee plantation. That he is -- that's his latest project. He's

:02:14. > :02:24.certainly not training at the level he was four or five or six years

:02:24. > :02:26.

:02:26. > :02:32.ago. The first expression does not change that much, he had given up

:02:32. > :02:40.the lead, he has given up the win. Unless he unleashes something

:02:40. > :02:44.brilliant, it is between Wilson Kipsang and Moses Kipsiro. As they

:02:44. > :02:54.come under the railway bridge we will be able to see them come into

:02:54. > :02:55.

:02:55. > :03:03.sight. This is going to turn into a big sprint finish. Wilson Kipsang,

:03:03. > :03:08.the marathon runner, has he got the pace? A sprint to the line. And now

:03:08. > :03:17.he starts to move away, Wilson Kipsang trying to respond to Moses

:03:17. > :03:22.Kipsiro, but he is not going to catch the Ugandan. The Ugandan wins

:03:22. > :03:32.the great Manchester run, and the great Haile Gebrselassie, for once,

:03:32. > :03:35.

:03:35. > :03:42.hast to take a lower position. A pretty good performance. The years

:03:42. > :03:47.catch up for everybody. I am not sure how proud he is to be the

:03:47. > :03:54.quickest man over the age of 40 at ten kilometres. In the end, just a

:03:54. > :03:59.little bit of pace lacking. focus now is more on coming to these

:03:59. > :04:05.races, having fun, running fast, but he is not committed to the same

:04:05. > :04:13.level of training he used to be. One thing he can definitely say is that

:04:13. > :04:19.he is over 40. His birthday was April the 18th, so he is 40. There

:04:19. > :04:23.is some discussion that he may be a little bit older than that. He is

:04:23. > :04:30.doing amazingly well, and he is pretty much committed to coming back

:04:30. > :04:40.next year as well. Well, it was not five in a row. He was beaten by two

:04:40. > :05:02.

:05:02. > :05:10.very good athletes. Moses Kipsiro runners. Johnny has done well to

:05:10. > :05:17.come before him. A must -- a much better performance from Wilson

:05:17. > :05:24.Kipsang. Athletes are coming in thick and fast now. Stephen

:05:24. > :05:31.Scullion, we have just seen finishing there. A good day to post

:05:31. > :05:37.sometimes. There were quite a lot of British men out there who will be

:05:37. > :05:47.hoping, the 30 minute mark has just gone. That is always a good

:05:47. > :05:50.

:05:50. > :05:57.benchmark, under 30 minutes. This is probably one of the best road races

:05:57. > :06:04.this country has ever seen over this distance. The runners will continue

:06:04. > :06:13.coming in here. James Walsh, left of the picture. I thought he might have

:06:13. > :06:18.done a little bit better today. Just inside 31 minutes. They are going to

:06:18. > :06:22.continue for the next couple of hours because the streets are

:06:22. > :06:32.filling up with the massed ranks of this ten kilometre race. But there

:06:32. > :06:47.

:06:47. > :06:53.are, the final result of the elite athlete to cross the line. A little

:06:53. > :07:00.bit of a procession, but what a procession for Tirunesh Dibaba, a

:07:00. > :07:09.new course record putting her ninth on the all-time list. Gemma Steel, a

:07:09. > :07:15.good performance from her in fourth place. Two very good races in the

:07:15. > :07:21.wheelchair event. Simon Lawson retained his title. In the women's

:07:21. > :07:31.event, Nikki Emerson just finished in a sprint with Jane Egan. And Liz

:07:31. > :07:41.

:07:41. > :07:50.line. They will be coming through for many hours to come. Phil Jones

:07:50. > :08:00.is with a gaggle of five live presenters. BBC five live gang doing

:08:00. > :08:00.

:08:00. > :08:07.the BBC proud today. You will know their boy -- -- you will know their

:08:07. > :08:15.voices well. What was it like taking part in the race today. It was sunny

:08:15. > :08:21.and hot, I could have done with it raining. We want to get in there and

:08:21. > :08:28.get it over and done with. I mention the heat, but Michelle, you have

:08:28. > :08:35.some extra ventilation. I certainly do, in the form of a massive hole.

:08:35. > :08:43.So what is the story behind that? asked my boyfriend to iron my top

:08:43. > :08:51.this morning, and this is how he handed it back to me. She just

:08:51. > :08:56.wanted to flash her bra, I think. is normally very good at ironing,

:08:56. > :09:03.but I do not know what happened this morning. No such mishaps for you

:09:03. > :09:12.this morning, Phil? No, the only problem is I am carrying an injury.

:09:12. > :09:21.I had to shave my legs to get some treatment on it. Hopefully it will

:09:21. > :09:30.hold up and I am looking to get in in around 27 minutes! Is that a true

:09:30. > :09:36.story, about the leg I mean? Do not put your camera down on my legs, my

:09:36. > :09:42.legs are hairier and far whiter. It is beautiful weather, we are used to

:09:42. > :09:47.this in this part of England, aren't we? It will be a great day. The last

:09:47. > :09:54.time we saw you at the Great North Run you had a fantastic race.

:09:54. > :10:04.beat this guy. We try not to mention it too often. He has something to

:10:04. > :10:08.

:10:08. > :10:14.prove today. You can tell you work in sport, the competitive nature is

:10:14. > :10:21.coming out. Have a fantastic race. Thanks for talking to us. Good

:10:21. > :10:28.banter from the BBC crowds, one or two pathetic excuses as well. Who

:10:28. > :10:33.irons their shirts before they run? They will be joining the masses, a

:10:33. > :10:37.lot of them already out there on the roads. They will be out there for

:10:37. > :10:44.the next couple of hours, everyone getting a chance to complete the ten

:10:44. > :10:50.K. The streets will be filled, and it is a great event. This is the

:10:50. > :11:00.11th addition of the event. It has just got bigger and bigger each

:11:00. > :11:00.

:11:00. > :13:57.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 68 seconds

:13:57. > :14:00.very long ago. Nicola tragically lost her son not very long ago.

:14:00. > :14:04.Rueben's charity was set up Rueben's charity was set up two days

:14:04. > :14:09.after he passed away. Two days after he passed away. We could not donate

:14:09. > :14:15.his organs due to the fact he had cancer, we discovered he had a

:14:15. > :14:19.tumour whilst we were on our holidays last year, and he passed

:14:19. > :14:22.away one week later. Two days after we lost him, we launched we could

:14:22. > :14:25.not donate his organs due to the fact he had cancer, we discovered he

:14:25. > :14:27.had a tumour whilst we were on our holidays last year, and he passed

:14:27. > :14:30.away one week later. Two days after we lost him, we launched Rubens

:14:30. > :14:32.retreat, and that will be a home from home Rubens retreat, and that

:14:32. > :14:34.will be a home from home for children with life-threatening

:14:34. > :14:36.illnesses. For children with life-threatening illnesses. It is a

:14:36. > :14:39.support for parents and siblings who lose their child. It is a support

:14:39. > :14:42.for parents and siblings who lose their child. We are trying to raise

:14:42. > :14:44.�1 million. We are trying to raise �1 million. We really want people to

:14:44. > :14:49.dig deep and support you. We really want people to dig deep and support

:14:49. > :14:52.you. We are on Facebook and Twitter, and Rudin has his own

:14:52. > :14:55.website which was a virtual gift for him we are on Facebook and Twitter,

:14:55. > :14:57.and Rudin has his own website which was a virtual gift for him at

:14:57. > :15:01.Christmas last year. We are working really hard to raise the money. At

:15:01. > :15:05.Christmas last year. We are working really hard to raise the money. I

:15:05. > :15:08.gave up my job in six weeks ago to work full-time on I gave up my job

:15:09. > :15:11.and six weeks ago to work full-time on this charity, it is so rewarding,

:15:11. > :15:16.people are so wonderful. This charity, it is so rewarding, people

:15:16. > :15:20.are so wonderful. We have 163 runners and I want to say a massive

:15:20. > :15:23.thank you to them all and for everyone who is supporting and

:15:23. > :15:25.donating. We have 163 runners and I want to say a massive thank you to

:15:25. > :15:28.them all and for everyone who is supporting and donating. Tell me

:15:28. > :15:30.what this woman is like, an incredible spirit about her? Tell me

:15:30. > :15:33.what this woman is like, an incredible spirit about her? You

:15:33. > :15:39.have heard of wonder woman? She is amazing. You have heard of wonder

:15:39. > :15:42.woman? She is amazing. We are so touched at the BBC for offering us

:15:42. > :15:45.this opportunity. We are so touched at the BBC for offering us this

:15:45. > :15:52.opportunity. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. We are thrilled

:15:52. > :15:55.to be here, it is just amazing. If you are within 20 minutes of

:15:55. > :15:58.Manchester, get down here, it is rocking. We are thrilled to be here,

:15:58. > :16:03.it is just amazing. If you are within 20 minutes of Manchester, get

:16:04. > :16:07.down here, it is rocking. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. So often

:16:07. > :16:10.we have heard of the motivation for people to run on behalf of other

:16:10. > :16:13.people, so often we have heard of the motivation for people to run on

:16:13. > :16:16.behalf of other people, I am surprised there that no one asked

:16:16. > :16:19.Denise if she was going to run it one day, no pressure. I am surprised

:16:19. > :16:21.there that no one asked Denise if she was going to run it one day, no

:16:21. > :16:24.pressure. The messages keep flooding in. The messages keep flooding in. I

:16:24. > :16:26.have had a message from Rachel Allen I have had a message from Rachel

:16:26. > :16:31.Allen who says, who says, please wish Catherine a good day. Please

:16:31. > :16:40.wish Catherine a good day. It is a good day for a lot of people out

:16:40. > :16:43.there. It is a good day for a lot of people out there.

:16:43. > :16:48.Yesterday there was a lovely reception for Haile Gebrselassie and

:16:48. > :16:53.some of the other stars just setting the scene for what's happening

:16:53. > :16:58.today. We've heard one lot of people running on behalf of somebody else.

:16:58. > :17:02.That's the theme. We'll hear from a man now who's running today to

:17:02. > :17:08.celebrate his recovery from a very serious illness last year. Like so

:17:08. > :17:14.many other people, he's also come up with an original way to get

:17:14. > :17:19.sponsored. I'd felt generally unwe will for a week or so. Like I had a

:17:19. > :17:25.bit of a cold. I went to the doctors a couple of times. I'd started not

:17:25. > :17:31.being able to breathe properly. They sent me to A&E and from there to

:17:31. > :17:35.intensive care. A day later on to a ventilator and then an he can mow

:17:35. > :17:43.machine on critical care. That's the last I can remember for three weeks.

:17:43. > :17:48.I was unconscious. For a young person like Sam to get pneumonia to

:17:48. > :17:58.the point where a breathing machine is failing to oxygen eight you the

:17:58. > :17:59.

:17:59. > :18:04.outlook was grim. He was dying. was extremely sick when he came in.

:18:04. > :18:09.ECMO is basically oxygen eighting the blood outside the body. It

:18:09. > :18:16.involves a pipe pumping blood round the body through the oxygenator,

:18:16. > :18:23.then the blood goes back into the body. Lots of blood transfusions of

:18:23. > :18:27.red blood cells. He received lots of platelets which is a different blood

:18:27. > :18:33.component. At the time you see bags going up you don't really think how

:18:33. > :18:38.the blood's got there in the first place. Just amazing care and the

:18:38. > :18:43.most hi-tech wonderful stuff going on. It was amazing. When I first

:18:43. > :18:49.came round, I was so weak I could barely move my body around. I can

:18:49. > :18:57.remember brushing my teeth and not being able to move my hand so I had

:18:58. > :19:03.to move my head to brush my teeth at one point. He had no stamina or

:19:03. > :19:09.endurance he'd not moved, breathed stretched for three weeks.

:19:09. > :19:13.nurses kept saying do you want to watch St V. The first thing I saw

:19:13. > :19:17.was the London Marathon. I was in floods of tears. I really didn't

:19:17. > :19:22.think I'd be able to walk again. That's quite hard to battle with

:19:22. > :19:25.when you are used to having a structured regime and challenging

:19:25. > :19:32.goals that you can achieve easily. There were moments where it was hard

:19:32. > :19:37.for him to lift his spirits to be motivated to carry on. Having seen

:19:37. > :19:42.the marathon when I was ill and the emotions it stirred up I thought,

:19:42. > :19:47.right, I'll do the London Marathon. Now the next challenges are the 10K

:19:47. > :19:52.on Sunday. I'm doing a half Half Ironman Triathlon in August.

:19:52. > :19:57.managed to run the London Marathon in three hours 20 minutes. That is

:19:57. > :20:03.astonishing for somebody whose lungs were such a mess a year ago.

:20:03. > :20:09.wanted to do something to help the ECMO team. I had a lot of blood

:20:09. > :20:14.transfusions when I was there. I thought rather than ask people for

:20:14. > :20:23.money why not ask people to pledge to become blood donors. That's where

:20:23. > :20:30.it came from. We've set up our website which is Pledge A Pint. We

:20:30. > :20:35.are trying to get 500 new blood donors to donate for us. I've

:20:35. > :20:40.pledged mine. The thermometer's going up. It is great to say I've

:20:40. > :20:50.done that. It has gone from my vanes into that pot. There may be another

:20:50. > :20:56.Sam out there who needs it. He's a real success zorb story. I am a

:20:56. > :21:02.non-runner. I'd like to do it in less than one hour ten. Which is

:21:02. > :21:10.almost double the time. He ale be by my side. Sam will keep me steady and

:21:10. > :21:18.we'll go over the line together. really is just a stunning day here

:21:18. > :21:22.in Manchester. Runners going past Old Trafford. If you're from the red

:21:22. > :21:28.side happy but a little less if you're from the blue side. Streaming

:21:28. > :21:38.through. Earlier on, we saw some superb elite racers. This is what

:21:38. > :21:50.

:21:50. > :21:57.were the elite wheelchair racers. It was Stuart Bloor, from a Stockport,

:21:57. > :22:05.who got things underway. Then it was a two-horse race between Simon

:22:05. > :22:10.Lawson and Phil Hoggs as they passed Old Trafford it was the defending

:22:10. > :22:14.champion Simon Lawson who sped away to win by over a minute. A brilliant

:22:14. > :22:23.time. As far as the women were concerned, Nikki Emerson gaining

:22:23. > :22:27.victory over last year's champion, just, Jane Egan. I am on and Nikki.

:22:27. > :22:31.Defended your title and pretty comfortably? I was happy with

:22:31. > :22:35.today's race. Nicer conditions than last year. I think I went quicker

:22:35. > :22:40.than last year. You left a lot of clear distance between you and the

:22:40. > :22:48.rest of the field? Phil was pretty close early on. After about two

:22:49. > :22:53.miles I broke lose. I had a nice cushion towards the end. Nikki,

:22:54. > :22:58.closer for you? Really close. Nice to have it that close in a women's

:22:59. > :23:05.race. A nice tactical day. You gave me a smile at the start. To say

:23:05. > :23:09.hello. Was that a confidence smile? I've just come back from injury.

:23:09. > :23:17.I've been training really hard. I was really excited to race today.

:23:17. > :23:21.Maybe not confident but hopeful. Well done to both of you.

:23:21. > :23:26.Fab Reece Muamba got the women's elite race off at the very beginning

:23:26. > :23:31.of the morning's proceedings. Not long before Tirunesh Dibaba found

:23:31. > :23:38.herself moving to the front. There was a Stunell in behind Azores

:23:38. > :23:44.jostled for position. Christelle Daunay from France stumbled. She got

:23:44. > :23:50.up and did well to get herself back involved in the race. But Tirunesh

:23:50. > :23:58.Dibaba was away. It was never really going to be a race at the front

:23:58. > :24:02.other than a procession for the double Olympic champion. The only

:24:02. > :24:08.question was how quick would she run. It was a big personal best for

:24:08. > :24:14.her. It was a new course record. It was the ninth fastest ever 10km on

:24:14. > :24:21.the road. The winner of the women's race Tirunesh Dibaba beside me.

:24:21. > :24:28.She'll speak through an interpreter. How did you feel it went. ? A superb

:24:28. > :24:37.run? TRANSLATION: It was a fantastic race

:24:37. > :24:46.for me. I believe I ran a good race. It was a good run for me. We'd hoped

:24:46. > :24:56.to see you Tirunesh run in London but you had problems with an injury.

:24:56. > :24:58.

:24:58. > :25:03.Everything is fine now? TRANSLATION: I had an injury but I

:25:03. > :25:08.have recovered from that. Today I run very well and showed that I am

:25:08. > :25:12.in a good position and I'm planning to run London next year. We're

:25:12. > :25:18.looking forward to seeing you in London next year. Will that be your

:25:18. > :25:26.first marathon? TRANSLATION: Yes, it will be my

:25:26. > :25:36.first marathon. What about the rest of this summer season?

:25:36. > :25:38.

:25:38. > :25:45.TRANSLATION: I'll be running the 5,000 next week to qualify for

:25:45. > :25:50.Moscow. Tirunesh, brilliant to see you here today. Very well done.

:25:50. > :25:53.Thank you. From one great champion to another.

:25:53. > :25:58.All eyes were on Haile Gebrselassie to see whether he could win this

:25:58. > :26:03.race for the sixth time. He's won it the last four years in a row. But

:26:03. > :26:08.the years are catching up with him a little. Another sub target was the

:26:08. > :26:16.fact he's beyond the age of 40 and could he break the world age best

:26:16. > :26:23.for that. No doubt about that happening but Wilson Kipsang and

:26:23. > :26:29.Moses Kipsiro, the track champion forged away in the last kilometre.

:26:29. > :26:34.They had it to themselves and in the end it was Kipsiro who broke away to

:26:34. > :26:38.take the win. Alongside me I have the winner of

:26:38. > :26:42.the men's race Moses Kipsiro and Haile Gebrselassie. Moses, it was a

:26:42. > :26:52.great race. Were you always confident you had the sprint at the

:26:52. > :26:57.

:26:57. > :27:05.end? Yes, the race -- race was comfortable. I enjoyed it. When it

:27:05. > :27:09.came to one kilometre to go I thought I have to wait to finish

:27:09. > :27:18.then I sprint. They were saying it is not an easy finish. You have to

:27:19. > :27:23.time it right? There are marks with 200 metres to go. I knew now it is

:27:23. > :27:30.almost now finishing. Then I saw the finishing and started sprinting.

:27:30. > :27:38.Great job. Let he in come to you Haile. You couldn't keep up with

:27:38. > :27:44.those boys? Difficult. They follow me and in the last 2km they

:27:44. > :27:50.sprinted. This is normal. I cannot change the gear from second to

:27:50. > :27:57.third. The gear is hard to change at this age. The consolation is you

:27:57. > :28:05.have a world record for over-40? Is it good or bad? On one hand it is

:28:05. > :28:10.good. I'm so happy, of course. I tried to win. It didn't work. Still,

:28:10. > :28:18.I came back with something. A word about the atmosphere and crowd? It

:28:18. > :28:26.is a great event? Great fans. Cheering. The weather was perfect.

:28:26. > :28:32.It was really very nice. There are many people shouting Haile

:28:32. > :28:42.Gebrselassie, and I enjoyed it. I say they are shouting for Haile

:28:42. > :28:52.Gebrselassie and also me! I congratulate Haile Gebrselassie he's

:28:52. > :29:00.a very goat athlete. When I started run running he was my hero. I wanted

:29:00. > :29:06.to be like him. Today, I'm very happy to run with Haile. A pleasure.

:29:06. > :29:11.Great job, Moses. Last question to you Haile. Back next year?

:29:11. > :29:16.course. Fantastic year. What can I do. I'm happy to come back and run

:29:16. > :29:23.here. I'm sure Brendan will have the contract out ready for you to sign.

:29:23. > :29:31.Thank you both very much. That was a lovely interview. What a charming

:29:31. > :29:41.man Moses Kipsiro is. Smiling about interviewing with Tirunesh Dibaba.

:29:41. > :29:55.

:29:55. > :30:00.Here's a graphic with the best Gemma and Helen are alongside me. A

:30:00. > :30:06.sprint finish. How happy were you? Reasonably happy. I find this course

:30:06. > :30:12.quite tough. After last year, had a bit of a cold but I did better than

:30:12. > :30:20.last year. I wanted a bit more really. After the run at Bristol a

:30:20. > :30:24.few weeks ago and running 32: 15. Yeah. Just wasn't the day today

:30:24. > :30:28.unfortunately. Helen? I've run a lot quicker on this course in the past.

:30:28. > :30:33.I'm quite pleased with my result. I've had a few niggles coming into

:30:33. > :30:38.the race. Even on Tuesday, I was in the physio getting sorted. So thanks

:30:38. > :30:44.to him I got round in one piece and my body felt pretty good. I'm really

:30:44. > :30:49.pleased with the result today even though it is a lot slower but it

:30:49. > :30:54.shows I'm in the right step. I've another 10K in two weeks' time in

:30:54. > :31:00.New York. You're both off to New York. What follows for the rest of

:31:00. > :31:07.the summer season? I have to try and get on the track and get more speed.

:31:07. > :31:13.Maybe a few 5Ks on the track. Yeah. Hopefully. And for you, Helen?

:31:13. > :31:17.looking to do a couple of 5Ks in July. Then start marathon training

:31:17. > :31:23.in October. That's the plan for me this summer. Thank you and well

:31:23. > :31:28.done. Even if you're not perhaps quite as happy as you'd hoped to be?

:31:28. > :31:37.Thank you. Thank you. Some fine running and pushing across

:31:37. > :31:42.the elite races but that's only part of the Manchester run. Kirsty

:31:42. > :31:47.carried the torch with David Beckham into the opening ceremony in the

:31:47. > :31:57.Commonwealth Games and has run in every Manchester run since wearing

:31:57. > :32:00.

:32:00. > :32:10.the number one. In that whole night, you suddenly became famous

:32:10. > :32:14.around the whole world. What was that like? It was amazing. It was a

:32:14. > :32:22.really good night, and I did not know David was going to be there

:32:22. > :32:28.until I got there. Kirsty is an amazing young lady and she has been

:32:28. > :32:33.part of the Francis house story. She was first filmed when she was six,

:32:33. > :32:39.sitting on the lawn. People did not think she was going to live very

:32:39. > :32:44.long, and that began the Kirsty appeal. And for many years it was

:32:44. > :32:52.about raising money to secure the future of Francis house. Since then

:32:53. > :32:56.she has been getting on with her own life, she has got her GCSEs, she has

:32:56. > :33:01.gone to college. She is on high levels of oxygen and in a

:33:01. > :33:09.wheelchair, but she is enjoying being a teenager. Francis house is

:33:09. > :33:14.one of many hospices around England and Wales, we provide respite

:33:14. > :33:19.support and end of life care to families who have children with

:33:19. > :33:28.life-threatening conditions. Medical interventions and advances in

:33:28. > :33:33.medical -- in medication mean that many of our young people are over

:33:33. > :33:39.the age of 16 and need the support we can give. We are hoping to open

:33:39. > :33:45.the building next door to double the size of our respite capacity, and

:33:45. > :33:52.improve our end of life support for young people. And do it in a more

:33:52. > :33:58.adult environment. It is to look after more teenagers so they have

:33:58. > :34:02.space away from young people. There are computers, you can do more stuff

:34:02. > :34:10.and watch films that you want to watch not watching what younger

:34:10. > :34:17.people want to watch. It is going well so far, we have raised 1.5

:34:17. > :34:25.million so far. We need to raise 3.6 million. She has taken part in every

:34:25. > :34:33.Great Manchester Run. What is it like for you at the start of the

:34:33. > :34:37.race? All of those people there cheering and supporting you? I feel

:34:37. > :34:46.excited, it is really good that all the supporters have turned out to

:34:46. > :34:53.see us. It is a really good day out and you get to see all the runners.

:34:53. > :35:01.I am here with Keely and Jonathan. How has the town been affected by

:35:01. > :35:06.the murder of Lee Rigby? It is a close community. The support from

:35:06. > :35:13.the hometown has been really good, floral tributes coming in, church

:35:13. > :35:20.services happening. It has been a real shock to the community, to be

:35:20. > :35:27.honest. He is in our thoughts today, definitely. In everybody's thoughts

:35:27. > :35:33.and minds. But you are actually not running for him, even though he is

:35:33. > :35:37.close to your heart. You are raising funds for a local school. Yes, we

:35:38. > :35:47.are running for our two Sun schools. But I am sure everyone running will

:35:47. > :35:52.be thinking of Lee Rigby. Yes, I think we would echo that. For many

:35:52. > :35:56.runners, the events of this week will be very much in their thoughts.

:35:56. > :36:01.So many charities out there who benefit to the tune of millions of

:36:01. > :36:09.pounds thanks to these running events. It has been one of the great

:36:09. > :36:15.stories over the last 15-20 years. Yes, they are personal challenges,

:36:15. > :36:21.but so much good is done by so many people taking part in such events.

:36:21. > :36:25.It all got under way earlier on, we saw Greg Rutherford joined on the

:36:25. > :36:31.starter's rostrum by Fabrice Muamba. He has been a tremendous

:36:31. > :36:35.inspiration to many of the runners today. Just over a year ago he was a

:36:35. > :36:45.seemingly fit and healthy premiership footballer, then one day

:36:45. > :36:49.

:36:49. > :36:51.fighting for his life after collapsing on the pitch. Fabrice

:36:51. > :37:01.Muamba is rushed to intensive care after the quarter-final against

:37:01. > :37:02.

:37:02. > :37:08.Spurs is suspended. Tonight he is described as seriously ill.

:37:08. > :37:17.emotional Fabrice Muamba returns to the Reebok Stadium seven weeks after

:37:17. > :37:22.suffering a cardiac arrest during which his heart stopped beating. One

:37:22. > :37:28.year later, he is in Manchester headlining a publicity event for the

:37:28. > :37:35.Great Manchester Run, and for his new campaign hearts and goals. It is

:37:35. > :37:43.a miracle he is here at all. It is difficult because you do not know

:37:43. > :37:51.exactly how to make an adjustment. Retiring from football so early. To

:37:51. > :37:57.me, it has been a challenge, but at the same time I embrace it. I think

:37:57. > :38:02.I have the power to speak about it because it happened to me. I know a

:38:02. > :38:09.lot of people have been affected by this issue. Hopefully we can find a

:38:09. > :38:14.way to resolve this problem. Sudden cardiac arrest is the UK's biggest

:38:14. > :38:19.killer. He is now an ambassador to and has set up hearts and goals to

:38:19. > :38:25.raise awareness of his condition and spread the word about an important

:38:25. > :38:30.piece of kit that could save lives. If you watch closely the video of

:38:30. > :38:40.what happened to me at White Hart Lane, one thing that helped me was a

:38:40. > :38:49.

:38:49. > :38:58.inspired over 100 people to run for him in the Great Manchester Run

:38:58. > :39:05.today. 92 of them are representing each of the Premier league clubs.

:39:05. > :39:10.I am an inspiration to you, thank you. But I see myself as just a guy,

:39:10. > :39:16.a guy who used to play football. Stopped playing football for health

:39:16. > :39:24.issues. One man taking part have been a constant source of support to

:39:24. > :39:30.him. What was incredible was to see somebody who was almost dead, to

:39:30. > :39:36.make the remarkable recovery that he did, then to take on this role and

:39:36. > :39:43.say, actually, this is an opportunity. I thought, I have never

:39:43. > :39:53.done a run before, it is a bit of a challenge. For a lot of people ten

:39:53. > :39:57.kilometres is easy, but for me it is a bit of an uphill struggle. I am

:39:58. > :40:03.very honoured and thankful that people would take time out of their

:40:03. > :40:11.busy schedule, come here and get together to run. I wish them all

:40:11. > :40:15.good luck. I am looking forward to seeing them. Thank you. You have had

:40:15. > :40:21.a busy morning, and you have had such a huge reception, what has it

:40:21. > :40:29.been like? The reception has been great, there has been a good turnout

:40:29. > :40:37.and the weather is great. Your charity, you have been such a great

:40:37. > :40:42.ambassador for it. We are trying to raise awareness. Today I have a good

:40:42. > :40:49.number of people running to raise money. Hopefully we will go out

:40:49. > :40:54.there and give it our best shot. must find it overwhelming. It is

:40:54. > :40:58.just over a year since the incident that changed your life. I am just

:40:58. > :41:05.grateful to be alive and to be able to share moments with my family and

:41:05. > :41:11.friends. You have to take it in and look at the bigger picture. I am

:41:11. > :41:15.here now and I am able to enjoy life. It has been great to see you,

:41:15. > :41:25.so many crowds, and hoping to raise a lot of money for the incredible

:41:25. > :41:29.

:41:29. > :41:32.charity. The charity alone, so many people die every single year.

:41:32. > :41:39.Hopefully we can make sure a defibrillator is available for as

:41:39. > :41:48.many people as possible. We want to put them in as many places as we

:41:48. > :41:52.can. It is great to see you. course, Fabrice Muamba was saved by

:41:53. > :42:00.the swift action of medical personnel. There are many of them

:42:00. > :42:05.here today looking after all of the runners. It is a warm day, lots of

:42:05. > :42:15.water are being taken on board. Particularly for those who have worn

:42:15. > :42:19.

:42:19. > :42:29.fancy dress costumes. Anyone wearing fancy dress today will be very, very

:42:29. > :42:32.

:42:32. > :42:39.hot indeed. Some people getting to start. You cannot get everyone on

:42:39. > :42:44.the roads at the same time, so people are given particular start

:42:44. > :42:54.times according to the numbers they are wearing. They are all wearing

:42:54. > :43:03.

:43:03. > :43:13.different coloured numbers. And it from Emmerdale. Phil got a chance to

:43:13. > :43:20.

:43:20. > :43:28.Run without the Emmerdale going. A whole swathe of them here on the VIP

:43:28. > :43:37.bus. Nice sunny weather, is that good for you? I do not know. I do

:43:37. > :43:46.not run very much. I am not used to this. We see you all the time in

:43:46. > :43:50.fancy dress, today the getup is, what? It is meant to be a monkey. It

:43:50. > :43:56.seemed a good idea when it was freezing cold this week, but not

:43:56. > :44:04.such a good idea to date. Nicola Wheeler, you have just come back

:44:04. > :44:13.from a set injury. Yes, this is my first run since then. I love

:44:13. > :44:21.Manchester, so it is great. Are you feeling OK, will you be all right?

:44:21. > :44:31.do not know, but it is for charity. She will get round easily, she will

:44:31. > :44:33.

:44:33. > :44:39.drag us all around. I thought you were a beaver. It looks very 70s.

:44:39. > :44:46.thought it was Russ Abbot. Whatever it is, you always enter into the

:44:46. > :44:52.spirit of it and you are running for a great cause. All the best. They

:44:52. > :44:57.have already been out there and completed their race. We are sitting

:44:57. > :45:01.at the finish line, they are streaming in front of us. I went for

:45:01. > :45:11.a little jolt yesterday, lovely weather. Paula, where would you be

:45:11. > :45:14.in this? For the first part, very slow then I tend to speed up a bit.

:45:14. > :45:21.After the surgery there was a little while when I thought I would not get

:45:21. > :45:27.back to running at all. It makes you appreciate it no matter how slow it

:45:27. > :45:36.is. I run for about one hour a day at the moment. You still did not

:45:36. > :45:39.answer the question. Faster than 50 minutes. You could have given people

:45:39. > :45:47.a great pleasure, people running faster than 50 minutes could have

:45:47. > :45:53.beaten you! It is nice just to take part and be able to get in amongst

:45:53. > :45:58.it. It is an important part of my life and I get enjoyment for it and

:45:58. > :46:06.that is as important as racing sometimes. -- I get enjoyment from

:46:06. > :46:10.it. It is great to see so many people I enjoying this event.

:46:10. > :46:15.Thankfully we have got some good weather today, it has been pretty

:46:15. > :46:25.horrid for the last few weeks. But the sun is shining today in

:46:25. > :46:42.

:46:42. > :46:47.Manchester. Manchester has really established itself as a great city

:46:47. > :46:52.of sport. Rather those Commonwealth Games. Paula will remember it well.

:46:52. > :46:58.2002, that opening ceremony with David beam ham. Seems so long ago.

:46:58. > :47:08.That was when it really all kicked off, this Great Manchester Run. It

:47:08. > :47:19.

:47:19. > :47:25.kicked off the following year, 2003. stories to be told. At the end of

:47:26. > :47:35.it, so much money being raised. They are brave, aren't they? You don't

:47:35. > :47:44.even know who they are? I'm turning to my child expert here. That's ups

:47:44. > :47:52.Upsy Daisy from In The Night Garden. And in front, it's Peppa Pig.

:47:52. > :47:57.do you mean, of course? Do you not know any of them? It is my duty as a

:47:57. > :48:03.doting grandfather! There is lots of fancy dress. Conditions in the shade

:48:03. > :48:07.are quite cool. Once you're in the beautiful sunshine, it really is a

:48:07. > :48:13.wonderful experience. 10K, you were talking about the distance and

:48:13. > :48:21.Paula's injuries earlier on. This is a good distance for a beginner to

:48:21. > :48:26.start with? It is. 10K is something really anybody can do in six to

:48:26. > :48:35.eight weeks if you're already some sort of runner. People do a 5K

:48:35. > :48:39.first, then the 10K. Then the half marathon or the marathon. We've a

:48:39. > :48:43.great view of everything down at the finish line in Deansgate. Across

:48:43. > :48:52.from us, I can see Jonathan Edwards who has a very special guest with

:48:52. > :48:57.him now. I certainly have. Tomorrow, there's a mini run. Alongside me I

:48:57. > :49:00.have Harley Lane. He contracted meningitis and lost his limbs.

:49:00. > :49:05.Harley, are you looking forward to your big day tomorrow? Yes.You're

:49:05. > :49:11.going to be starting the race? And somebody's told me you might be

:49:11. > :49:21.taking part as well, is that right? Yes. Have you ever run that far

:49:21. > :49:23.

:49:23. > :49:33.before? No, you haven't. Have you? don't think so. How have you enjoyed

:49:33. > :49:35.

:49:35. > :49:41.today so far? Hmm!Who was your favourite? Did you like Haile?

:49:41. > :49:46.sure. Not sure about Haile. He's getting a bit old. What about your

:49:46. > :49:51.little brother. How about you? You having fun today? Yeah.We're going

:49:51. > :49:57.to have a quick word with mum, now. You have a very brave young man

:49:57. > :50:01.here? He's really brave. I've very proud of him. How do you think he's

:50:01. > :50:07.looking forward to tomorrow. It's a big day for him? He's really

:50:07. > :50:15.nervous. It is a big thing but he's looking forward to it. He's getting

:50:15. > :50:21.more excited as the week's gone on. What has he been through? He lost

:50:21. > :50:25.his limbs through meningitis. He us a lucky to have been here. He's a

:50:25. > :50:29.really strong boy, fought through it and come out the other side.

:50:29. > :50:34.wants to start and take part in the run tomorrow. How do you think that

:50:34. > :50:39.will go? Hopefully he will do all right. When he was asked to start

:50:39. > :50:45.the race he said yes, straight away. He was asked if he'd like to do it.

:50:45. > :50:51.He will finish and he'll do really well. Harley. One last word. Do you

:50:51. > :50:56.think you'll sleep tonight or will you be too excited? Too excited.I

:50:56. > :51:00.thought you would be. I have a special guest. MrJohnny peacock.

:51:00. > :51:08.Johnny. Come down. Have a little word with this brave young man,

:51:08. > :51:15.Harley. Here. How are you doing? Fine. Johnny won a gold medal in the

:51:15. > :51:21.Paralympics. Just like you, he had meningitis. I got meningitis when I

:51:21. > :51:27.was five. It's all cool. Still me. Did you see Johnny run yesterday?

:51:27. > :51:33.Did you see him in the Paralympics? He was the really quick one. I think

:51:33. > :51:40.so. He was the one who ran away from everybody. Johnny, tell us about

:51:40. > :51:47.yesterday. The first time Paralympians have been at the great

:51:47. > :51:51.city Games. It was great to see inclusion. It is a stepping stone

:51:52. > :51:57.for. That seeing how it works between Paralympic and able-bodied

:51:57. > :52:02.events competing side by side. The public enjoy it. I'll happy compete

:52:02. > :52:06.more and more in those situations. Your first race of the season.

:52:06. > :52:11.You've had jury, changed your blades? It went well enough. I

:52:11. > :52:15.wanted to be strong and powerful through the first 30 metres. After

:52:15. > :52:21.that what happened, happened. It crumbled a bit. I only got to about

:52:21. > :52:26.60. But I'm happenied with how the start went. How have you woken up

:52:26. > :52:32.this morning? After the first competition of the day it is grim?

:52:32. > :52:38.Looking forward to tomorrow. Not feeling too bad. We've got the

:52:38. > :52:48.Birmingham Grand Prix. Towards the end of next month we've the World

:52:48. > :52:48.

:52:48. > :52:56.Championships in Lyon. Johnny, thanks for coming along today. And a

:52:56. > :53:02.big thank you to you, young man. Good luck for tomorrow. OK.Nice

:53:02. > :53:06.one. Great story. Hope he has a fantastic

:53:06. > :53:16.day tomorrow even though he looks a little nervous about the whole

:53:16. > :53:17.

:53:17. > :53:22.thing. Difficult interview for Jonathan there. The city Games

:53:22. > :53:26.yesterday, the 10K today and the kids get their chance tomorrow. I

:53:26. > :53:36.hope the rain holds off for them. Forecast isn't as good for tomorrow.

:53:36. > :53:38.

:53:38. > :53:42.Fingers' crossed it will be OK. We've seen a few global champions in

:53:42. > :53:46.action already today in the elite races. We're just about to hear the

:53:46. > :53:54.story of another world champion who's been taking part in this event

:53:54. > :54:00.from a sport you might not usually associate with running.

:54:00. > :54:03.The title, 2005, Embassy World Snooker champion Shaun Murphy.

:54:03. > :54:07.running for the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital charity. A

:54:08. > :54:13.family member of mine has been coming here since she was very

:54:13. > :54:19.little, in fact, since she was born. They do great work for kids up and

:54:19. > :54:24.down the country, not just in Manchester. Any slight bit of help I

:54:24. > :54:27.can give them is worth it. We are the charity for the largest

:54:28. > :54:32.Children's Hospital in the UK. We support treatment care and research

:54:32. > :54:39.at the hospital. It means we are making life a bit easier for our

:54:39. > :54:44.patients and their families. Hello! How are you all? When I come to the

:54:44. > :54:50.hospital I try to get involved. If it is seeing kids, having a gate of

:54:50. > :54:56.snooker with them in the play room. Just to add a bit of brightness to

:54:56. > :55:02.kids' lives. What could be more important? You're in your United

:55:02. > :55:08.States onesie. I'm not American!I didn't think you were! It was great

:55:08. > :55:16.seeing the kids making banners. I was taking them home and put them up

:55:16. > :55:25.to give me encouragement. She was born with her bladder on the

:55:25. > :55:30.outside. We come every three months to out patients and this is like our

:55:30. > :55:33.second home. We call it our posh apartment. It is so humbling, so

:55:33. > :55:38.nice to see. It is this type of thing that the race is about. It is

:55:38. > :55:43.not about who crosses the line first and all that. It is about doing good

:55:43. > :55:46.and nice things for other people. That's the whole point of it.

:55:46. > :55:52.amazing to have people like Sean come and visit the hospital and our

:55:52. > :55:56.patients. He's very kindly donated a new snooker table for us for the

:55:56. > :56:00.teenage zone. It can be quite boring, long stays in hospital for

:56:00. > :56:04.children. Its really exciting to have interesting visitors and people

:56:04. > :56:07.who can come to talk to them. Brighten up their day. A bit of a

:56:07. > :56:11.change really. The children love it when people come in. It gets them

:56:11. > :56:15.off the ward. Something to look forward to. It was really nice

:56:15. > :56:21.people like Sean come and see the children and give their time to do

:56:21. > :56:26.stuff with them. The Manchester run is such a big thing for Manchester.

:56:26. > :56:30.It stops the city and not much causes the city to stop for a day.

:56:30. > :56:35.Everybody turns out and supports everybody and gets involved.

:56:35. > :56:39.Completely out of my comfort zone. Not anything I would see myself

:56:39. > :56:43.doing when I got involved in snooker years ago. But being involved with

:56:43. > :56:47.the royal Royal Manchester Children's Hospital here is

:56:47. > :56:57.something which is very close to my heart. If me running around

:56:57. > :57:00.

:57:00. > :57:08.Manchester helps, then I'll do it. ALL: : good luck Sean! Thank you.We

:57:08. > :57:11.saw the Fabrice Muamba story and you're wearing the Bolton Wanderers

:57:11. > :57:19.colours for Hearts & Goals. How did you come to be involved? After what

:57:19. > :57:24.happened last year I just had to wear the Bolton shirt to show my

:57:24. > :57:29.support for Fabrice Muamba. It show you can do anything if you put your

:57:29. > :57:37.mind to it. After six or seven millings, knowing what Fabrice did

:57:37. > :57:43.it give me the energy to carry on. Seeing him start the race? He's our

:57:43. > :57:48.hero. Amazing. All the people who've come out today respect him and

:57:48. > :57:57.showed him that passion. You have played a great part in this today.

:57:57. > :58:01.Well done. Thanks a lot.Not 24 hours ago, sir rich Richard Leece

:58:01. > :58:05.the leader of Manchester City Council was at a reception regaling

:58:05. > :58:13.us with a story about the organisers saying this will be a great event

:58:13. > :58:17.but we're really sorry to have shut down your city. Sir Richard replied

:58:17. > :58:23.that no, it's me who should be thanking you because the city, with

:58:23. > :58:30.an event like this, is really going to open up. It gets more people into

:58:30. > :58:35.the city, gets more people involved. It is not only the track events that

:58:35. > :58:45.took part yesterday and today but more events tomorrow. Manchester is

:58:45. > :58:48.

:58:48. > :58:51.more events tomorrow. Manchester is more events tomorrow. Manchester is

:58:51. > :58:55.more events tomorrow. Manchester is alive with sport. A mass of colour

:58:55. > :59:04.have Steve and Paula alongside me. Paula's looking very glamorous.

:59:04. > :59:11.Steve, you didn't make much of an effort. Hello. We're on air.

:59:11. > :59:16.listen togs Rob Walker talking about us. I'm saying Paula's looking

:59:16. > :59:21.glamorous and you... I'm going training after this. I would suggest

:59:22. > :59:27.that I could probably go to the start line and run and get quicker

:59:27. > :59:31.and I'm tressed for it. She looks better than me! She certainly does.

:59:31. > :59:35.Beautiful day here. Not quite such a beautiful day yesterday in New York

:59:35. > :59:43.for the Diamond League. Not what you'd combpt for this time of year

:59:43. > :59:48.in New York. That mete has had bad weather forthe past couple of years.

:59:48. > :59:53.It was cold, windy and wet. There were one or two good performances

:59:53. > :59:58.There were not that many British athletes there. You almost feel

:59:58. > :00:01.sorry for New York. It is a great city. But it has the worst of the

:00:01. > :00:11.Diamond League meetings unfortunately. The weather didn't

:00:11. > :00:15.

:00:15. > :00:19.help yesterday. You mentioned Andhra ya, we saw how fast Monsho ran.

:00:19. > :00:28.ran really fast in those conditions. She's going to be a force to be

:00:28. > :00:33.reckoned with going into Moscow. trip triple jumpers couldn't even

:00:33. > :00:41.make 16-and-a-half metres it was that windy. Christine attacked the

:00:41. > :00:45.200. She's in lane six going backwards in the home straight.

:00:45. > :00:50.Montu is one to beat this year. Interesting to see the way

:00:50. > :00:54.Christine's approaching this season. She wants to get in the mix more?

:00:54. > :00:58.Typically she'd come out later in the season and build slowly towards

:00:58. > :01:01.a peak at the championships. She's trying to force herself to change

:01:01. > :01:06.the way she runs races to commit a bit more in the first half of the

:01:06. > :01:15.race. Unfortunately, the conditions there meant she paid the price for

:01:15. > :01:20.combating. Hopefully that won't put her off trying it in other races.

:01:20. > :01:24.She's not fit. If you're 100% fit to go into a race like that which the

:01:24. > :01:30.weather conditions were tough as well. It was not something she

:01:30. > :01:38.fancied. Siddo ewe didn't start either. Holly Bleasdale didn't

:01:38. > :01:48.perform all that well. A real mixed bag of a day. Men's 5,000 was

:01:48. > :01:54.

:01:54. > :02:02.interested. There's a new Ethiopian talent threatening mow Faro. He was

:02:02. > :02:09.a class a-- mow Faro -- Mo Farah. He ran a brilliant 3,000 metres in

:02:09. > :02:15.Doha. It was an impressive run. Different conditions. They only ran

:02:15. > :02:22.13: 10. He did most of it on his own. As the season progress he is

:02:22. > :02:28.we'll see Mo in Eugene next week. This will be the guy to beat.

:02:28. > :02:33.think mmm o will be watching him with a fluttering heart? He will.

:02:33. > :02:36.Trying to get a gauge for how he will race. How he will go up gents

:02:36. > :02:46.him. He tends to finish the races

:02:46. > :02:48.

:02:48. > :02:53.strongly like Mo does. He needs to think about his tactics. I do not

:02:53. > :03:01.think he has made his mind up yet. I think he is going in with both

:03:01. > :03:09.options, but his first focus will be the 10,000 metres. Let's look at the

:03:10. > :03:15.men's 800 metres. Andrew had a pretty good start, he had been in

:03:15. > :03:21.trouble this year with one or two injury problems. I am not sure he

:03:21. > :03:26.was expecting much from his first couple of races. It was good to come

:03:26. > :03:35.second, it was a better race for him. Andrew is getting good at

:03:35. > :03:40.racing people. It is, can you get through the round, get to the final,

:03:40. > :03:48.as he did last year, and then be competitive in the final. I think

:03:48. > :03:51.his season will get better as it progresses. One of the big news

:03:51. > :03:56.stories in British athletics has been the resignation of Peter

:03:56. > :03:59.Eriksson and Neil Black will be taking the British team to Moscow.

:03:59. > :04:07.What did you make of that, British athletics have been losing people

:04:07. > :04:12.pretty fast. For me, it was surprising. Peter Eriksson has been

:04:12. > :04:21.in this country for 4-macro or five years. To leave the country and take

:04:21. > :04:24.the job, something is just not right. In that respect it is a

:04:24. > :04:29.little bit disappointing, it does leave the team a little bit stuck

:04:29. > :04:35.and a little bit looking around and not knowing who to look to going

:04:35. > :04:42.into Moscow. He seemed to bring a real cam, reassuring presence to

:04:42. > :04:45.British athletics. Very different to Charles. But when we saw him in

:04:45. > :04:54.Gothenberg, there was something which resonated with all of the

:04:54. > :04:59.athletes. He did a fantastic job with the Paralympic team. The

:04:59. > :05:03.Paralympic athletes knew him well, once the rest of the team got to

:05:03. > :05:09.know him they realised, he is a very different character. Someone who is

:05:09. > :05:13.very personable. It will be difficult at this stage to find a

:05:13. > :05:22.quick replacement. I think they should wait, do not find a quick

:05:22. > :05:29.replacement. Take a bit of time to find a new head coach. Thank you for

:05:29. > :05:39.the moment. Steve, get on with your run, you are looking very fit.

:05:39. > :05:44.

:05:44. > :05:50.tragically lost their daughter last December. Mum Rebecca, tell us why

:05:50. > :05:55.you set up the charity. We set up the charity to remember our darling

:05:55. > :06:04.daughter. We want to make up their children smile like our daughter

:06:04. > :06:08.did. We are here with 200 of our friends and family. Another 70 from

:06:08. > :06:13.around the world are swimming and cycling to raise money in her name.

:06:13. > :06:19.We will be looking out for these pink T-shirts everywhere. And you

:06:19. > :06:25.have a picture of your daughter on your back. A beautiful little girl.

:06:25. > :06:31.She really was. Her sister is here as well. We are going to keep

:06:31. > :06:39.raising money and working hard, but we miss her terribly. What is your

:06:39. > :06:48.target figure, and how much are you hoping to raise? 50,000 today, keep

:06:48. > :06:51.them coming. We have raised 50,000 as of today and we are giving the

:06:51. > :06:54.money to the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital to support clown

:06:54. > :07:01.doctors going around the wards distracting children when they are

:07:01. > :07:08.having treatment. You have pink T-shirts here today but you have

:07:08. > :07:15.people running all over the world. London, New York, Jerusalem and

:07:15. > :07:22.South Africa. I hope you raise so much money for such a worthy cause.

:07:22. > :07:27.Thank you so much for talking to us. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome

:07:27. > :07:33.a player who survived a 17 day marathon at the Crucible to become

:07:33. > :07:43.champion in 2005. How has he fared on the streets of Manchester

:07:43. > :07:51.

:07:51. > :07:58.competing in this epic ten K. It is tie, how do you feel? A bit of a

:07:58. > :08:05.Muppet. I was going to wear the full snooker outfit, but my friends told

:08:05. > :08:11.me that was not a good idea. Snooker players are perhaps not renowned for

:08:11. > :08:18.their fitness, how was the run? was the first time I have ever done

:08:18. > :08:23.anything like this, but I had to pull out because I injured my foot.

:08:23. > :08:29.It will not be the last time I do something like this, I loved it. I

:08:29. > :08:34.am doing it for the Royal man to children is charity, I am a patron

:08:34. > :08:38.and it is a charity very close to my own heart. Through the season I

:08:38. > :08:46.support them through a snigger prospective with �100 for every

:08:46. > :08:53.century break that I make. We saw earlier that you had a banner, I

:08:53. > :08:57.think we have it. The children made this for you. It is so nice. We

:08:57. > :09:02.donated a snooker table to the play area. I went in and some of the

:09:02. > :09:06.children had made me cards and this banner as well. This is what it is

:09:06. > :09:13.all about. Are you hoping this will help your snooker, the fitness

:09:13. > :09:22.element? Fitness has become more important, we are an eye up to 30

:09:22. > :09:27.events pro season. -- we are now up. The top players are also the

:09:27. > :09:30.fittest, and I am probably the only one who lets the side down.

:09:30. > :09:40.could take the Ronnie O'Sullivan route and just do one tournament a

:09:40. > :09:40.

:09:40. > :09:43.year. It works for him! Unbelievable what he did. To not compete for one

:09:43. > :09:53.year, turn right and when the World Championships is a testament to how

:09:53. > :09:57.

:09:57. > :10:07.I can tell you the entries for next year's race have already been

:10:07. > :10:27.

:10:27. > :10:34.opened. There we are, there is the will know this person here at my

:10:34. > :10:39.side. Now a friend of mine. Remind everyone of your story. Three years

:10:39. > :10:43.ago today I should have been doing this run but I was waiting for a

:10:43. > :10:47.liver transplant. On the day of the run I was going into theatre to have

:10:47. > :10:55.my liver transplant because they rang me the night before to say a

:10:55. > :11:01.liver had become available. Three years on, here I am, running a game.

:11:01. > :11:09.You have done brilliantly there. are not used to this kind of

:11:09. > :11:16.weather, but a brilliant day, really enjoyed it. It is a great spectacle.

:11:16. > :11:21.How many strange sights have you seen out there? I saw two dies

:11:21. > :11:27.wearing a full body outfit, I do not know how they are breathing. They

:11:27. > :11:35.got overtook by a turtle. Spiderman ran past me. I am not brave enough

:11:35. > :11:39.to do anything like that. You are as brave as they come. Talking about

:11:39. > :11:49.fancy dress reminded me of a certain story about a vicar running in his

:11:49. > :12:06.

:12:06. > :12:13.running the great Manchester ten K run on behalf of of a waste says

:12:13. > :12:17.Academy, I am also the chair of the Academy. As chair of the Academy

:12:17. > :12:25.part of my responsibilities are wandering around the school, taking

:12:25. > :12:30.assemblies. I love being in that school. He wants the best for all

:12:30. > :12:40.our children. He goes around the classes, listens to children

:12:40. > :12:42.

:12:42. > :12:46.reading. They run up to him, hug him. The Times in 2004 said this was

:12:46. > :12:52.the worst place in Britain to live, but lots of us who live here

:12:52. > :13:02.disagree. We love living here, it is a great community, great community

:13:02. > :13:02.

:13:02. > :13:09.spirit. Lots of great people. I am running in my school clerical gear,

:13:09. > :13:14.I am not one who is often seen in my clerical gear in this community.

:13:14. > :13:17.Jeans and a sweatshirt is probably more appropriate in this community.

:13:17. > :13:22.On Monday I was in school assembly showing the pupils what I was going

:13:23. > :13:29.to be running in. Some of them are hoping for rain, some were hoping it

:13:29. > :13:34.would be warm, am just hoping I would get back in one piece. I

:13:34. > :13:39.really enjoy exercise because it helps me to keep fit and to sleep.

:13:39. > :13:43.The more exercise you do, the more tired you are and it helps when you

:13:43. > :13:48.go to bed. A number of children over the past few days have been

:13:48. > :13:54.fundraising. Today was fitness Thursday when they came in in their

:13:54. > :14:03.PE kits. They just tried to raise that profile of fitness in their

:14:03. > :14:08.daily lives. We are going to use the money for some outdoor equipment for

:14:08. > :14:14.our 3-5 -year-olds, this will enrich their time at this school and give

:14:14. > :14:19.them a school, learning environment to work in. One of the reasons I am

:14:19. > :14:24.doing the Great Manchester Run is to continue my weight loss. Three years

:14:24. > :14:30.ago I was over 26 stone. At that point I really needed to do

:14:30. > :14:35.something about it. Fortunately the medical treatment available I took,

:14:35. > :14:43.which was a gastric bypass, and I continue to work on my weight loss

:14:43. > :14:47.and my restriction of food. But also my exercise as well. On Sunday

:14:47. > :14:55.morning I am leading morning prayer, and within that we have a

:14:55. > :14:59.baptism of a young child. I will be doing that, doing my church service,

:14:59. > :15:04.fulfilling the baptism requirements, welcoming this young life into the

:15:04. > :15:14.Church of England. Then very quickly I will get change, have a car

:15:14. > :15:17.

:15:17. > :15:22.outside to transport me straight used to get hot just being in the

:15:22. > :15:26.church, so goodness knows how he will feel running in the sunshine.

:15:26. > :15:36.It was also very hot yesterday for the great City Games and I am joined

:15:36. > :15:37.

:15:37. > :15:42.by two of the stars. Before we look back to yesterday, Greg, we are next

:15:42. > :15:48.to a sprinter. Your comments about beating sprinters, tell us about

:15:48. > :15:55.that. The other day I said I wanted to try a couple of hundred metres

:15:55. > :16:02.this year. I feel as if I could run a bit quicker. I got quoted saying I

:16:02. > :16:07.would be the next best thing in sprinting which is not true at all.

:16:07. > :16:10.I would not claim I can beat people like this. But I think there are a

:16:10. > :16:17.few people out there who do Sprint who I think I might have a chance

:16:17. > :16:27.against. There have been some great sprinter long jumps. Yes, there

:16:27. > :16:28.

:16:28. > :16:34.have. It can be done, and it has been done. Especially in the relay.

:16:34. > :16:40.You have just got to be careful what you say. You won comfortably

:16:40. > :16:47.yesterday, a bit disappointment that -- a bit disappointed you did not

:16:47. > :16:51.get over eight metres? Yes. I was really keen to get over eight metres

:16:51. > :16:57.and give the crowd something special. Altogether the competition

:16:57. > :17:03.was great. By the time we got to the final round I was a little bit tired

:17:03. > :17:09.because the rounds were so quick. It was a pretty good day out. I want to

:17:09. > :17:16.jump eight metres every time, but it does not always happen like that.

:17:17. > :17:23.Technically, how are you at the moment? Yesterday did not look too

:17:23. > :17:27.hot to be totally honest. Changes take a long time, things have been a

:17:27. > :17:34.bit disjointed for me this year already. We worked on a few things,

:17:34. > :17:39.the problem is, going back in a full run in a competition situation you

:17:39. > :17:48.want to perform as well as you can. Often you revert to how you used to

:17:48. > :17:56.jump. I think over the coming year things will change more. Let's come

:17:56. > :18:00.to your 100 metres Kim. You beat the young boys? Yes, you always want to

:18:00. > :18:05.be dominant in the sprinting. Everybody wants to come and win

:18:05. > :18:09.regardless of age. For me, it is great to be able to carry on.

:18:09. > :18:17.your view now in terms of the rest of your career? Are you taking it a

:18:17. > :18:27.race at a time a year at a time? have to take it one race and one

:18:27. > :18:27.

:18:27. > :18:36.year at a time. I really can't go to far. If I set a long-term goal it

:18:36. > :18:43.will be Rio at 40, six Olympics and I really will have to call it a day.

:18:43. > :18:48.You will be like merlin Otti. Keeping going and going. I'll look

:18:48. > :18:58.at coaching. It is my time to go and coach. That's something I'm

:18:58. > :19:03.

:19:03. > :19:08.considering. Let's look at other events that caught the eye Merry is

:19:08. > :19:16.one of the great athletes we have at the moment. She'll become one of the

:19:16. > :19:26.best Hurd letters we've ever had. She is a dominant force. We could

:19:26. > :19:32.

:19:32. > :19:37.see good medals coming out of her. Next to her is Perri. It is not as

:19:37. > :19:43.easy as her running and jumping over hurdles. Technically she has to get

:19:44. > :19:48.it right her flat speed hats to be up there. She's run a sub-51. She's

:19:48. > :19:53.getting there. Could be an ex-seating year for her. One of the

:19:53. > :20:02.star names was Alison Felix. She won three gold medals in London. You're

:20:02. > :20:09.a great admirer of her, Kim. She looks in great form? He her power to

:20:09. > :20:14.force ratio is great. She is slim. But she has a lot more to come.

:20:14. > :20:19.She's not dissimilar to you. She's very slight. You see some of the

:20:19. > :20:27.sprinters very muscular. You two both generate incredible power

:20:27. > :20:31.without the big mussels? Right. We are able to use our sprint much more

:20:31. > :20:36.efficiently than those who are stronger. The stronger athletes, if

:20:36. > :20:40.they use their power I don't know what happens. They are using half of

:20:40. > :20:46.what they actually train with. does the rest of the season pan out

:20:46. > :20:53.for you? I'm off to America on Monday. Then all building towards

:20:53. > :20:57.the World Championships and hopefully come away with a title.

:20:57. > :21:02.Rnlingts I'm off to home, then Senegal and some places after. I

:21:02. > :21:06.have a tight schedule. No trials or championships to work to. I'm just

:21:06. > :21:16.having fun. Great to see you here Kim and Greg as well. Good luck for

:21:16. > :21:17.

:21:17. > :21:23.the rest of the season. I am ear here with Andrew Starr.

:21:23. > :21:27.Congratulations for the BAFTA last tango in Halifax? Thank you. Great

:21:27. > :21:33.surprise. Great actors, brilliant production. Very happy. How was it

:21:33. > :21:38.out there today? A bit warmer than we're used to in Manchester? A felt

:21:38. > :21:44.out of place without it raining. It was very warm. Very different

:21:44. > :21:48.running around the streets thorn going round in a Cortina in the

:21:48. > :21:52.seventies. It was a fantastic turnout. People running for friends,

:21:52. > :21:59.families and charities. reception you get from the crowd?

:21:59. > :22:04.They are amazing. They took Life On Mars to their heart. We are really

:22:04. > :22:14.received when we come back. You need to be dragging a bit and someone

:22:14. > :22:20.shouts "come on Raymondo", and you're off again. There's a whole

:22:20. > :22:24.gang here? Leukaemia and lymphoma do a great job as do all the charities.

:22:24. > :22:33.The little bit of pain I had out there is next to nothings to the

:22:33. > :22:37.guys fighting the disease. Sum it up, get on with it and stop moaning.

:22:37. > :22:44.Congratulations on today. Thank you. I've been joined by some lovely

:22:44. > :22:47.ladies. Joanna. Helen. Amanda.Who are you running for? The Multiple

:22:47. > :22:51.Sclerosis Society. My husband was diagnose in the 1997 with multiple

:22:51. > :22:57.sclerosis. They've been a wonderful support to us since. Are you from

:22:57. > :23:02.Manchester? From Wil multiple sclerosis low in Chesire.

:23:02. > :23:09.atmosphere today has been incredible? Wonderful. Amazing. I'm

:23:09. > :23:16.not even nervous anymore. How's your preparation been? Trying since about

:23:16. > :23:26.Christmas. Is this your first time here? First time doing 10K. I've

:23:26. > :23:26.

:23:26. > :23:30.done 5K in the past in Tatton. running in the name of my husband.

:23:30. > :23:34.Died at the age of 24. Cancer Research. It has been a traumatic

:23:34. > :23:40.time for you. But days like this where there are so many people with

:23:40. > :23:48.so many stories, it gives you hope? It does. We'll beat it. Been lovely

:23:48. > :23:55.to speak to you. Have a good one ladies. A lot of emotion out there

:23:55. > :24:01.today for a lot of people. Working hard towards whatever causes.

:24:01. > :24:05.Whether it is a challenge to complete the distance in a best

:24:05. > :24:10.time. Been a lovely day to do that. Still they continue. They are

:24:10. > :24:14.streaming across in front of us. Lots of good luck messages. So many

:24:14. > :24:24.people trying to get close to the finish line to get a good view. Some

:24:24. > :24:25.

:24:25. > :24:29.yet to still have their chance to complete their race for the day.

:24:29. > :24:35.Loads of celebs been out there. Depends on your view. I'm told the

:24:35. > :24:40.quickest one, the winner of the celeb race was Tony Ellis, former

:24:40. > :24:47.professional footballer, ran just over 32 minutes. Very good. Very

:24:47. > :24:52.good. They've done studies on David Beckham and found he runs about 10K

:24:52. > :25:01.m during a match up and down the pitch. I suppose he has the basis of

:25:01. > :25:05.some 10K training. 32 minutes is a decent time. There's still many down

:25:05. > :25:10.there at the start. Many stories still to tell. Let's have another

:25:10. > :25:20.quick word with Phil. If you were watching earlier in the show, you'll

:25:20. > :25:24.have seen the story of Sam and swear Ruschelit Pledge a Pint. Blood, not

:25:24. > :25:29.money, not alcohol. How was the race? Great. It was Sarah's first

:25:29. > :25:33.race. Ask her. He was very kind to me. He said keep going, the crowd

:25:33. > :25:36.was fantastic. I've always been the other side of the barrier. Sam's the

:25:36. > :25:42.runner in my house. Great to be the right side of the barrier. Have you

:25:42. > :25:48.got the bug now? Will you do it again? Halfway round she said maybe

:25:48. > :25:53.we should find a nice half marathon to run. Sun's come out in Manchester

:25:53. > :25:57.today! The cause you're running for, you must have a great sense of

:25:57. > :26:02.satisfaction when you complete a race like this? We went out for a

:26:02. > :26:07.loose run across the fields last night and shed a tear saying we are

:26:07. > :26:13.very lucky I'm here. It is very emotional. Been a remarkable

:26:13. > :26:23.fightback by you. Con greatlations. You completed it and many more.

:26:23. > :26:23.

:26:23. > :26:26.Please pledge us a pint. Thank you very much. We saw some super elite

:26:26. > :26:31.races earlier on. Tirunesh Dibaba ran away from the field. It was a

:26:31. > :26:37.new course record. One of the top ten times of all time from the

:26:37. > :26:43.Ethiopian super star. Then in the men's race, we'd hoped to see Haile

:26:43. > :26:46.Gebrselassie take his fifth run but Moses Kipsiro from Uganda ran away

:26:46. > :26:51.from Wilson Kipsang to take the men's race. We're coming near to the

:26:51. > :26:56.end of our broadcast here in Manchester. But there's still a host

:26:56. > :27:06.of sporting action on the BBC. Arsenal Ladies versus Bristol

:27:06. > :27:13.

:27:13. > :27:19.If you like your sport at a slower pace, there's golf from Wentworth.

:27:19. > :27:24.The PGA championships. Highlights on BBC Two at 6.00pm.

:27:24. > :27:30.The next athletics coverage is on the red button. Diamond League

:27:30. > :27:36.action from Eugene. Mo Farah going in the 10,000 metres. Then the

:27:36. > :27:40.Diamond League heads to Europe and Usain Bolt takes to the Italian

:27:40. > :27:47.stage. We'll be live on BBC Three from 7.00pm.

:27:47. > :27:51.A huge athletics season. We'll be hear to follow it all on the --

:27:52. > :27:56.we'll be here to follow it all on the BBC. Here in Manchester, 11