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:01:12. > :01:15.One of the toughest sporting challenges. It will push you to the

:01:16. > :01:23.limit, and then even further. No matter how fast or fit you are, the

:01:23. > :01:27.finishing line is always sweet relief. Six days ago, though, the

:01:27. > :01:31.finish of the Boston Marathon became a different scene as triumph

:01:31. > :01:35.turned into terror. Today, as about the state to the streets of London

:01:35. > :01:38.to run, to support, to cheer, their thoughts will never be far from

:01:38. > :01:44.those critics scenes and those whose lives were irrevocably

:01:45. > :01:54.changed. The 2013 London Marathon, a day to celebrate the strength of

:01:55. > :02:17.

:02:18. > :02:27.the human spirit and a day to have to do to win his rise each

:02:28. > :02:33.

:02:33. > :02:43.loudly in my face, another voice within me says, "get up and run

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:02:48. > :02:51.Good morning, and welcome to our coverage of the 33rd London

:02:51. > :02:55.Marathon, a day that always covers the gamut of emotions but which

:02:56. > :03:01.today has another dimension because of Boston. London once more becomes

:03:01. > :03:07.the focal point for the sporting world, in bed -- in particular, the

:03:07. > :03:12.iconic finish. The global running community is out in force again,

:03:12. > :03:18.aiming for fast times, raising millions for charity and united in

:03:18. > :03:24.a desire to conquer the 26.2 mile course. This year, they are united

:03:24. > :03:30.in solidarity for the victims of Boston.

:03:30. > :03:33.Krystle Campbell, Lu Lingzi and 8- year-old Martin Richard all went to

:03:33. > :03:40.the Boston Marathon to cheer on the finishers. They would not return

:03:40. > :03:46.home. These were the three lives taken in Monday -- Monday's oldest

:03:46. > :03:52.marathon in the world. 70 more were injured, 17 critically. Some lost

:03:52. > :03:58.limbs. The images left a city shocked and bewildered as a nation

:03:58. > :04:03.and global audience watched on in disbelief. An elite race will

:04:03. > :04:09.forever be linked to a senseless act of terror. Today, London is

:04:09. > :04:19.united with Boston, remembering lives lost and lives devastated.

:04:19. > :04:21.

:04:21. > :04:26.But defiantly they displayed at Just under a week since those

:04:26. > :04:30.heart-rending scenes in Boston. The next major global marathon is the

:04:30. > :04:37.London Marathon. Runners are gathering here in Blackheath at the

:04:37. > :04:42.start, and there's a sense that the response is to race to celebrate

:04:42. > :04:50.marathon day. With me is the chief executive and the former race

:04:50. > :04:52.director. A former runner of some distinction, can you give me a

:04:52. > :04:58.sense of the shockwaves this has sent through the marathon

:04:58. > :05:04.community? I think, for us, the shockwaves were at different levels.

:05:04. > :05:08.We know the people from Boston. We work with them and we know their

:05:08. > :05:12.staff. We know many of the people who work with the tour operators

:05:13. > :05:17.and things like that. For us, there were so many people we were

:05:17. > :05:23.concerned about when we heard this news. There was clearly chaos and

:05:23. > :05:29.carnage on the TV screens. It was difficult to take it all in.

:05:29. > :05:36.Looking back a bit now, thank God it wasn't any worse than it was. It

:05:36. > :05:42.could have been absolutely shocking. It was really bad. Our hearts and

:05:42. > :05:47.thoughts are with them and have been all week. Obviously, there was

:05:47. > :05:52.the shock David talks about. Then, in Ely, in all of the reports, they

:05:52. > :05:57.were saying, it is London next. -- immediately. How have you

:05:57. > :06:02.responded? They were shocking pictures. They have galvanised us

:06:02. > :06:07.to look again at our security measures. We have had an amazing

:06:07. > :06:12.response from the police, the mayor, other agencies, but also the

:06:12. > :06:16.community. We have had to change a bit and put some more security

:06:16. > :06:20.measures in. What has come out of it is that we have always known

:06:20. > :06:25.that we are valued. We now know that we are treasured. It was an

:06:25. > :06:29.amazing response from both runners and the public. What the police

:06:30. > :06:34.have said is there is no increased threat, but it is a sense of

:06:34. > :06:39.reassurance of people coming to watch and support. Absolutely.

:06:39. > :06:43.London is a city that is well used to living with these threats, as we

:06:43. > :06:47.have known for years. We have a very practised procedure through

:06:47. > :06:55.our police. We know that people are going to respond positively to day

:06:55. > :06:59.and support the runners. It will be a poignant moment with the 30

:06:59. > :07:05.seconds silence at the beginning. We have had a fantastic response

:07:05. > :07:11.from our runners. This will be the first time I have been on the start

:07:11. > :07:17.podium. In the park, I have been part of the scenes behind the start

:07:17. > :07:22.area. -- in the past. I am delighted to be doing it. The

:07:22. > :07:28.period of silence will generate an amazing response. Thank you for

:07:28. > :07:36.your time it will best fighter in what is a busy day. We are going to

:07:36. > :07:44.head out to the Mall, where all the attention will be. A commentary

:07:44. > :07:49.team are based there, Steve Cram and Brendan Foster. We can get

:07:49. > :07:53.their views now, perhaps starting with Steve Cram. Steve, you have

:07:53. > :08:00.been here all week. You have been to the press conferences. What is

:08:00. > :08:05.your sense of the build-up to the race this year? Jonathan, it

:08:05. > :08:11.started in a sombre mood, as you could understand. As Dade and Nick

:08:11. > :08:15.have said, they did a fantastic job. -- Dave. The elite athletes arrived

:08:15. > :08:24.and everything was as normal for them. Then the press conferences

:08:24. > :08:28.started. They got people back into the normal mode. The course

:08:28. > :08:33.generated increased its interest. They have handled things extremely

:08:33. > :08:38.well. The reassurance to talk about was important for everybody,

:08:38. > :08:41.because people were coming back from Boston, journalists who were

:08:41. > :08:45.there and coming back to London, some of the Paralympic athletes who

:08:45. > :08:48.are taking part, and gradually they were coming back with stories. But

:08:48. > :08:52.it was important that they had a chance to tell that. As the week

:08:52. > :08:57.has gone on, the mood has lifted and people are looking forward to

:08:57. > :09:00.the race. We have got a cracking day. Once everybody gets moving,

:09:01. > :09:08.yes, we will have time to reflect, but the important thing is we are

:09:08. > :09:18.going to have a great event today. Brendan, as I mentioned, you have

:09:18. > :09:19.

:09:19. > :09:29.been at every single race. How different does it feel this year?

:09:29. > :09:30.

:09:30. > :09:34.Obviously, people's thoughts are going to be before the event, and

:09:34. > :09:39.during the silence they will be with the people of Boston. After

:09:39. > :09:45.that, London will show - the terrorist attack, it was not an

:09:45. > :09:49.attack on running, it was an attack on humanity. Humanity, led by the

:09:49. > :09:54.city of London and the British public, as always, will respond and

:09:54. > :09:57.say, we can't be stopped from doing what we want to do. People want to

:09:57. > :10:01.go for a run and challenge themselves. They want to do the

:10:01. > :10:08.London Marathon. They want to live their lives. This is going to be a

:10:08. > :10:11.response to that. Obviously, there's a part of everybody's mind

:10:11. > :10:17.referring to Boston, but London will respond and take this event to

:10:17. > :10:21.its heart, which it has always done. It was interesting to hear them say

:10:21. > :10:25.that they have always known that the event was loved. We do treasure

:10:25. > :10:31.the London Marathon. The British public treasure this event. Today,

:10:31. > :10:38.London will respond and shine. The weather is fantastic for that

:10:39. > :10:43.response. The city will uproarious. -- look glorious. I'm sure you are

:10:43. > :10:49.right. Just a last quick question to you, Steve. We have some elite

:10:49. > :10:54.races for this occasion, don't we? We do. It is fitting that, while we

:10:54. > :11:02.reflect on what happened in Boston, don't forget Boston is almost the

:11:02. > :11:07.patriarch of great marathon races. It was the inspiration for other

:11:07. > :11:12.cities. London is now top of the tree because it gets the best elite

:11:12. > :11:22.fields. This year could not be better. The men's race is a stellar

:11:22. > :11:28.

:11:28. > :11:32.field. Who knows, we might even As you can see, the runners are

:11:32. > :11:36.starting to gather. It is a beautiful, beautiful morning, if a

:11:36. > :11:40.bit chilly. A great sense of expectation as runners look forward

:11:40. > :11:48.to the fruition of months and weeks of planning. Here is what is coming

:11:48. > :11:51.up over the next five hours. In one of the greatest fields ever

:11:51. > :11:57.assembled, Stephen Kiprotich returns to the streets where he won

:11:57. > :12:02.Olympic marathon gold eight months ago. He is joined by Wilson Kipsang,

:12:02. > :12:06.bronze medallist at London 2012 but when of this race last year. All

:12:06. > :12:12.eyes, though, will be on Mo Farah. He runs a half marathon today as

:12:12. > :12:15.part of his build-up to the full distance next year.

:12:15. > :12:22.In the women's elite race, it is another top-class field, with an

:12:22. > :12:32.Olympic one soon as Tiki Gelana goes head-to-head with Priscah

:12:32. > :12:35.

:12:35. > :12:41.In the wheelchair races, David Weir will be out to follow up his amends

:12:41. > :12:45.this -- momentous 2012 with a win here. Shelly Woods will be going

:12:45. > :12:51.for a third win. And, of course, after the elite,

:12:51. > :12:56.comes the masses. Over 36,000 runners will power the streets to

:12:56. > :13:06.raise money for worthy causes. They all have a story to tell and we

:13:06. > :13:09.

:13:09. > :13:14.forecast. There was fast on the ground this morning. My feet are

:13:14. > :13:18.like blocks of ice! But it is warming up. You can see that the

:13:18. > :13:23.sun is shining and the temperature will increase through the day.

:13:23. > :13:27.Hopefully, not to warm, though. Without the wind, it should be

:13:27. > :13:29.pretty decent running conditions once they get going. Of course, you

:13:29. > :13:39.once they get going. Of course, you don't have to be running to take

:13:39. > :13:49.

:13:49. > :13:57.part. You can text or tweet your Well, lots of different start

:13:57. > :14:02.points for the London Marathon. One of them is inside Greenwich Park.

:14:02. > :14:05.This is where Sonali Shah has based herself. She is in the bandstand.

:14:05. > :14:09.She is discovering some of the inspiring stories of why people are

:14:09. > :14:17.running this race. I am with Gill, who will be running

:14:17. > :14:27.with her dyed partner. Tell us your story. The two years ago, I lost my

:14:27. > :14:29.

:14:29. > :14:36.sight. The eye condition as a charity that I am running for today.

:14:36. > :14:41.How much are you hoping to raise? We have raised about �20,000, so

:14:41. > :14:50.whatever we raise today will be good. Wow! What did she like as a

:14:50. > :14:55.partner? -- what is she like. is really good. She keeps me in the

:14:55. > :15:00.right way and makes sure I don't injure myself. She is not just your

:15:00. > :15:04.side, she is your support out there. Yeah, she is really good. And you

:15:04. > :15:08.have both already run the New York Marathon last year. The yeah, it

:15:08. > :15:18.was really good. The only thing was the horror came. We ran around

:15:18. > :15:30.

:15:30. > :15:35.central part. -- hurricane. We ran newsreaders and one sports reader,

:15:35. > :15:39.so fairly worth, Mike Bushell, I bet you cannot wait to get started.

:15:39. > :15:45.I think it will be pretty warm by lunchtime, we have all trained

:15:45. > :15:55.through the winter in sub-zero temperatures. Suddenly, on the first

:15:55. > :16:03.day we have to run the marathon and sun comes out. This is the only time

:16:03. > :16:09.in my life I will ever say I am pacing and Olympic athlete. Ewing

:16:09. > :16:14.Thomas -- Iwan, he always shoots off at the start, but he will stick with

:16:14. > :16:17.me. Whether I can rein him in is another question. Will he keep up

:16:17. > :16:23.with you at the end, that is the thing.

:16:23. > :16:28.Susanna, how are you doing? I feel a bit like iron man, I have a

:16:28. > :16:34.leg that is really strapped up. I would not call it an injury, I did a

:16:34. > :16:38.bit of overtraining, that silly thing where you go from 16 miles to

:16:38. > :16:43.20 miles in a couple of days so my leg is not feeling 100%, but I am

:16:43. > :16:48.definitely going to finish it. And you feel it is a day where you

:16:48. > :16:51.have to finish the race, given what has happened?

:16:51. > :16:55.Of course, with Boston in mind everyone has to. There was a real

:16:55. > :16:59.feeling afterwards, we were all suffering a bit, I was out of

:16:59. > :17:04.training for three weeks from a cough, and you think, you have to

:17:04. > :17:08.do, you have to do this, you just have to support them, really, and

:17:08. > :17:13.think about what they were going through. It is just absolutely

:17:13. > :17:16.ghastly. Mike, I presume you are going to

:17:16. > :17:23.finish ahead of your BBC compatriots, no?

:17:23. > :17:27.No, I have seen Sophie before, she has previous form. Speedy Gonzalez.

:17:27. > :17:32.I think there may be a challenge between the three of us, I did not

:17:32. > :17:38.do it fast last time, but by the end I was perfectly happy with no pain.

:17:38. > :17:43.I will push myself more this time, I just want to hit the wall.

:17:43. > :17:49.Stick around next for the VD, it is a map of the course. Maybe it will

:17:49. > :17:59.put you off. -- stick around next for the video next. This is what the

:17:59. > :18:06.

:18:06. > :18:08.course of the London Marathon looks like. The course is relatively flat

:18:08. > :18:09.and fast, although interestingly London does not have the reputation

:18:09. > :18:11.of being one of the quickest marathons.

:18:11. > :18:14.There are three starting points, eventually converging as the runners

:18:14. > :18:16.head east into Charlton and Woolwich. The rent -- then turn west

:18:16. > :18:23.before reaching the Cutty Sark, now fully restored following the fire

:18:23. > :18:28.six years ago. The then head south as the head towards Tower Bridge, at

:18:28. > :18:33.a landmark that is very important as they mark their progress. Tower

:18:33. > :18:39.Bridge incredibly important as that marks halfway, 13.1 miles at this

:18:39. > :18:44.point. It would be lovely if the runners could then turn left and

:18:44. > :18:49.make a - for the finish, but then it turns east along the highway into

:18:49. > :18:57.Docklands, and after a tour around the Isle of Dogs the next major

:18:57. > :19:03.landmark is Canary Wharf at the 19 mile mark. A loop of the sparkling

:19:03. > :19:07.skyscrapers than it is the final West turn and a long-running home.

:19:07. > :19:13.Through Saint Catherine 's Dock then back to once the Tower of London and

:19:13. > :19:17.Tower Bridge, along the embankment with a lovely view of the shard,

:19:17. > :19:24.towards the London Eye, Big Ben and the houses of parliament, passed

:19:24. > :19:28.Buckingham Palace, onto the Mall and then they have done it. The tried

:19:28. > :19:32.and tested route of the London Marathon, and in ten minutes the

:19:32. > :19:37.first athletes on it will be the elite women. Phil Jones has a gauge

:19:37. > :19:40.to these contenders. The streets of London where paved

:19:40. > :19:47.with gold for Tiki Gelana last summer as she ran to Olympic

:19:47. > :19:57.marathon success. Chasing her down will be Priscah Jeptoo, who took

:19:57. > :19:59.silver last August. Florence Kibler gap's victory in the 2011 burial in

:19:59. > :20:09.Madison demonstrated she is capable of a podium finish having been

:20:09. > :20:10.

:20:10. > :20:16.fourth year a year ago. -- the 2011 burial in marathon.

:20:16. > :20:21.After victory on her debut, Edna Kiplagat finished third last year.

:20:21. > :20:24.Bank on these to be leading when the women hit the Mall.

:20:24. > :20:30.Part of our commentary team down on the Mall is Paula Radcliffe, who

:20:30. > :20:33.knows a thing or two about running the London Marathon. What do you

:20:33. > :20:40.make of those leading contenders? Who would be your favourite?

:20:40. > :20:44.It is a very strong field, my favourite would be Tiki Gelana. The

:20:44. > :20:48.way that she made her debut in Rotterdam, she ran very fast time,

:20:48. > :20:53.but also for the way she ran in the Olympics. She says she is in better

:20:53. > :20:58.shape than for the Olympics, so she would be the favourite. Edna

:20:58. > :21:04.Kiplagat behind her and Florence, also, is an outside shot. Florence

:21:05. > :21:10.is a little more up and down than Edna, she is a consistent performer.

:21:10. > :21:16.How do you feel Tiki Gelana will choose to run this?

:21:16. > :21:20.That will be interesting to see. When the race goes off we will get a

:21:20. > :21:24.feel for how they are going to run this. For me it is perfect

:21:24. > :21:27.conditions today, not the wind there has been earlier in the week,

:21:27. > :21:32.temperature wise it is pretty much perfect for running. They may attack

:21:33. > :21:37.hard from the start, they may decide to watch each other and play around

:21:38. > :21:46.a bit more then start running faster from halfway. It is difficult to

:21:46. > :21:51.tell how they are going to go until we see the first couple of miles.

:21:51. > :21:55.Well, Paula, obviously it is great to have you in the commentary box,

:21:55. > :21:59.but we will chat about your injuries and a second, first look back to

:21:59. > :22:03.Kenya as a go at what you did here at the London Marathon.

:22:03. > :22:06.There is no better example of distance running than what we see

:22:06. > :22:11.from Paula Radcliffe. She is the best in the world at this

:22:11. > :22:14.event. Paula Radcliffe, pushing back the

:22:14. > :22:19.barriers. It is an absolute joy and a pleasure

:22:19. > :22:27.and a privilege to watch Paula Radcliffe.

:22:27. > :22:31.This woman really is a phenomenon If I could stand up, I would applaud

:22:31. > :22:40.like everyone else because you are seeing a new world record from Paula

:22:40. > :22:44.Radcliffe, a fantastic performance, the best yet. Unbelievable.

:22:44. > :22:48.Well, Paula, it really was a remarkable performance, difficult to

:22:48. > :22:52.see it ever being broken to be honest. All we want to know is what

:22:52. > :22:56.is your fitness like? I know you have had an operation, could you

:22:56. > :23:00.give us an update on whether you will ever run again in London?

:23:00. > :23:06.Happily for me I have been able to get back jogging in the last couple

:23:06. > :23:11.of weeks. It is really slow but moving in the right direction. I am

:23:11. > :23:16.just happy to be at that stage, I am taking it step-by-step at the moment

:23:16. > :23:21.to see what level I can get back to. It doesn't change what I am doing at

:23:21. > :23:24.the moment, it is getting my foot better each day. Being here this

:23:24. > :23:29.morning and standing on the Mall, it is the first time I have ever stood

:23:29. > :23:34.here, I have using -- usually been running as hard as I could do that

:23:34. > :23:40.finish line. It is a unique experience this morning.

:23:40. > :23:45.OK, Pollock continues, good luck with the rehabilitation. -- Paula

:23:45. > :23:50.Radcliffe continues. From one world record holder to another one, Colin

:23:50. > :23:55.Jackson has been rubbing shoulders with the elite athletes.

:23:55. > :23:59.From inside this tent, the winners are gathered up and escorted to the

:23:59. > :24:05.start line, and this is where the final checks will take place.

:24:05. > :24:11.Usually inside there tends to be a lot of tension, but not in there,

:24:11. > :24:15.and I think that is because they had 26 miles in front of them - no need

:24:15. > :24:20.for attention whatsoever. This room is around with talent. We have the

:24:20. > :24:29.will Olympic champion and bookies favourite, just putting her numbers

:24:29. > :24:33.on and spikes, Tiki Gelana. She is not the only one who has gone under

:24:33. > :24:37.two hours and 20 minutes, there are three others saw it will be a very

:24:37. > :24:41.competitive race in deed. As far as I am concerned, these are more

:24:41. > :24:48.nervous, anxious, ready to go, and before they do I think I had better

:24:48. > :24:52.go. I will see you shortly. Here is the timetable for the races

:24:52. > :24:55.this morning. The elite women's race featuring the Olympic champion off

:24:55. > :25:00.featuring the Olympic champion off at 9am. At 9:20am the wheelchair

:25:00. > :25:07.race, look out for David Weir going for his record seventh win. Just

:25:07. > :25:15.after that, the IPC world marathon cup, featuring Richard Whitehead.

:25:15. > :25:20.The elite men's race and the masses start at 10am, and from 1230 PM we

:25:20. > :25:24.will be focusing on the fun runners will be focusing on the fun runners

:25:24. > :25:28.and London Marathon stories. The women are there on the start

:25:28. > :25:32.line, and they will be looking forward to get off as as soon as

:25:32. > :25:38.possible, and I wonder who it will be that will add to this list Reus

:25:38. > :25:43.list of former winners. -- illustrious list.

:25:43. > :25:53.At a horrific finish. We make our one second inside the previous world

:25:53. > :26:06.

:26:06. > :26:16.best. -- at terrific finish. This is Paula Radcliffe, well and truly on

:26:16. > :26:17.

:26:17. > :26:19.top form. This has been a superb performance, she wins the London

:26:19. > :26:29.Marathon 2008. Mary Keitany, stunning performance

:26:29. > :26:34.

:26:34. > :26:36.elite women, and good morning to our commentary team once again, Paula

:26:36. > :26:44.Radcliffe and Brendan Foster, Steve Cram.

:26:44. > :26:49.Thank you Jonathan, good morning to everyone on this beautiful morning.

:26:49. > :26:54.The masses race, of course, when we will all be paying our respects to

:26:54. > :27:02.the events in Boston earlier on in the week, just less than a week

:27:02. > :27:05.ago. Before all of that happens, the elite women get to set off first.

:27:05. > :27:09.Looking resplendent in the sunshine, and we have mentioned some of the

:27:09. > :27:16.great names who will be competing today. There is the full list for

:27:16. > :27:26.the elite field, headed up by many people's favourite, Tiki Gelana, the

:27:26. > :27:31.Olympic champion. Priscah Jeptoo will go very well, I think, also.

:27:31. > :27:35.Meselech Melkamu, an old hand on the track. A big Japanese contingent,

:27:35. > :27:41.they are using this as the trial for the world Championships in Moscow

:27:41. > :27:51.later this year. As indeed are the two British women, Amy Whitehead and

:27:51. > :27:57.

:27:57. > :28:01.early hours this morning, but the sun is warming things up, and as

:28:01. > :28:05.Paula Radcliffe was saying, perfect for fast running on what is still a

:28:05. > :28:08.pretty quick course around London. It may not be the quickest in the

:28:08. > :28:18.world but is one of them. Let us introduce you to the main

:28:18. > :28:26.

:28:26. > :28:30.contenders. ANNOUNCER: Representing Kenya, Florence Kibler Gatt.

:28:31. > :28:40.She made her debut in October, she is a multiple world track and cross

:28:40. > :28:50.country medallist, Meselech Melkamu. Then the reigning world champion,

:28:50. > :28:55.

:28:55. > :28:57.Edna Kiplagat. Winning 113 -- 113, the Olympic silver medallist from

:28:57. > :29:03.London 2012 representing Kenya, Priscah Jeptoo. And a big reception

:29:03. > :29:12.please for the Olympic champion from London 2012, representing Ethiopia,

:29:12. > :29:19.Tiki Gelana. We are ready to run our first race of today in the elite

:29:19. > :29:23.women's field. The announcer doing wonderful introductions, I already

:29:23. > :29:26.-- always feel sorry for the elite women as there is not many people to

:29:26. > :29:31.see them start, so they are applauding themselves, really. A

:29:31. > :29:35.little bit of an issue for them when this elite field gets going, they

:29:35. > :29:44.will have no company, the road will be clear, and as the group breaks up

:29:44. > :29:48.they will be hoping one or two of the pacemakers, David Bedford and

:29:48. > :29:56.Dave Best will be the chief starter today. He said he is very honoured

:29:56. > :30:03.to be doing that job. You can see him on the right-hand side. The race

:30:03. > :30:07.starter is former world record-holder David Bedford.

:30:07. > :30:14.Still being an organiser, checking his own watch making sure he does

:30:14. > :30:18.not set them away early. The virgin London Marathon 2013 is

:30:18. > :30:28.under way, the elite women with what promises to be a wonderful race

:30:28. > :30:39.

:30:39. > :30:44.you never know what to expect. We have these Olympic and world

:30:44. > :30:51.champions. Gounod's what we are going to see in the next few hours.

:30:51. > :30:57.-- who knows. It was great to see the race director on the start line.

:30:57. > :30:59.He has been responsible for taking the elite side of the London

:30:59. > :31:09.Marathon and making it a truly international, probably the best

:31:09. > :31:10.

:31:10. > :31:20.the elite field in the world. And the field is outstanding. We are

:31:20. > :31:25.usually talking about corner being in the front. -- Paula Radcliffe.

:31:25. > :31:30.You must feel terrible sitting there! Recently I have been sitting

:31:30. > :31:35.alongside you rather than being out there. Obviously, I would rather be

:31:35. > :31:39.out there. But still, if you can't be out there, the next best place

:31:39. > :31:46.to be is appreciating the race here. It was interesting to listen to

:31:46. > :31:50.some of the build up. I believe London is a fast course. I think it

:31:50. > :31:55.has got the best crowd in the world, the best city. It is extremely

:31:55. > :31:59.quick. It depends how you commit to the race. One thing I would say is

:31:59. > :32:02.that because of the strength of the field, what we see is people

:32:02. > :32:08.looking around at each other and not getting the head down and

:32:08. > :32:11.getting on with the race. As we are seeing, we have got the three

:32:11. > :32:17.pacemakers in the black and white stripes, and they have been asked

:32:17. > :32:22.to go through halfway in 69.15. At the moment my it does not look as

:32:23. > :32:27.though the field is keen to go with that. That is Gelana there from

:32:27. > :32:31.Ethiopia, who is trying to get there but is not quite on the back

:32:31. > :32:39.of the pacemakers. She seems to be looking around to see if anybody is

:32:39. > :32:45.prepared to come with her. BRENDAN FOSTER: The record books do

:32:45. > :32:52.not say it is a slow course. The record has been standing for 10

:32:52. > :32:56.years. STEVE CRAM: if you are watching the

:32:56. > :33:00.clip off Paula Radcliffe winning when she did the superb time, which

:33:00. > :33:06.is still the official world record, although the rules have changed a

:33:06. > :33:12.bit. The women are not allowed to have any pacemakers at all. Any

:33:12. > :33:22.records set going for it have to be done in a women-only race. -- going

:33:22. > :33:25.

:33:25. > :33:28.why the pacemakers head off and the field do not follow, they are asked

:33:28. > :33:33.to go at a certain pace, they are getting paid to do that and they

:33:33. > :33:38.will stick to what they have been asked to do. If they are sensible,

:33:38. > :33:46.they will keep an eye on them. There's three levels of pace. You

:33:46. > :33:56.can see a couple of groups breaking up. The British pair, Amy White

:33:56. > :33:57.

:33:57. > :34:00.head and Susan Partridge, and I should say there are others in the

:34:00. > :34:05.field - you can get in this elite race and be so far adrift of what

:34:05. > :34:13.is going on the front, you may be better off in the main race.

:34:13. > :34:17.have got a new white head who is taking the early start to day but

:34:17. > :34:22.one race a few years ago. It is going to be more dribble around you

:34:22. > :34:29.in the mass raids. You are going to have a bit more of an atmosphere. -

:34:29. > :34:34.- more people. The danger of being on the elite start is that it does

:34:34. > :34:39.start to spread out. After seven or eight miles, you may be running on

:34:39. > :34:49.your own for a long time. It is not a big field here and it has already

:34:49. > :34:51.

:34:51. > :34:57.broken down into three distinct groups. So, the pacemakers have

:34:57. > :35:03.been set to bring them home in under 2.19. In these early stages,

:35:03. > :35:08.he looks like they are not particularly interested. -- it

:35:08. > :35:12.looks. They are letting the pacemakers drift away. That is not

:35:12. > :35:18.what we want to see. Gelana has talked about the shape she is in.

:35:18. > :35:21.Quite a few of these athletes, Gelana included, had intended to

:35:21. > :35:25.run the New York marathon in November. The plans changed because

:35:25. > :35:30.they were all in New York and the hurricane hit, meaning the race was

:35:30. > :35:34.cancelled. She has not run a marathon since then. She has done a

:35:34. > :35:40.half marathon. She elected not to substitute New York. Some others

:35:40. > :35:44.did. Seat turned her attention to London. She is hoping for a good

:35:44. > :35:49.performance. She has decided to sit off the pace a little early. It is

:35:49. > :35:58.not a bad thing. The first few miles can be the quickest of the

:35:58. > :36:03.course, especially through miles two and three. I feel silly saying

:36:03. > :36:10.this Mr Paula Radcliffe, but some athletes like to settle into the

:36:10. > :36:18.race, don't they? -- next to Paula Radcliffe. They do. You see how

:36:19. > :36:24.your body is reacting. In the last few days, they may have done some

:36:24. > :36:34.jogging and stretching. You come to the Starline making short you are

:36:34. > :36:43.

:36:43. > :36:47.into the race with a time in mind. I did, the last two times. The

:36:47. > :36:53.first time I didn't have a time in mind and really felt it in the

:36:53. > :36:57.first few miles. It was around Cutty Sark that I started to get

:36:57. > :37:04.moving. When I was attacking Times, I was already thinking about what I

:37:04. > :37:09.wanted here. Some athletes come to events like this to run a good time.

:37:09. > :37:12.Susan Partridge there. She is running with a time in mind. She is

:37:12. > :37:16.trying to get a qualifying time for the world championships later this

:37:17. > :37:20.year in Moscow. When you look at the main group, you can see the

:37:20. > :37:26.calibre of the athletes, you have got the world champion and the

:37:26. > :37:30.Olympic silver medallist, you have got the Frankfurt marathon runner,

:37:30. > :37:35.and therefore, sometimes the idea of a time does out the window. This

:37:35. > :37:39.is a race that you want to try and win. If this is a race that you

:37:39. > :37:44.want to watch exclusively, and of course we were lucky to stay with

:37:44. > :37:51.us, but on our red button, we are trying to give a chance for

:37:51. > :38:01.everybody to see what they want. You can get full coverage of the

:38:01. > :38:11.

:38:11. > :38:20.conditions here. The elite and a mass start is at 10am. This is what

:38:20. > :38:24.is still to come. David Weir was one of the heroes of London 2012,

:38:25. > :38:29.with four Paralympic gold medals. Today, he looks to secure his

:38:29. > :38:32.seventh London win. Wilson Kipsang is one of the fastest of all time.

:38:32. > :38:38.He starts as favourite as he looks to defend his London title.

:38:38. > :38:44.Anything can happen in sport, just ask Stephen Kiprotich, the surprise

:38:44. > :38:48.champion last year. And all eyes will be on Britain's double gold

:38:48. > :38:58.medallists, Mo Farah. He is just running a half marathon today as he

:38:58. > :39:13.

:39:13. > :39:19.builds up to the full event next is Andrew Strauss and his wife,

:39:19. > :39:24.Ruth. Ruth, I start with you. You must have been a cricketing widow

:39:24. > :39:31.for many years. Andrew retires in September, you sit down, you say,

:39:31. > :39:36.let's run a marathon?! Was it like that? No, it was a drunken evening

:39:36. > :39:43.at a brewery night. Andy was convinced by one of our friends to

:39:43. > :39:47.run. I thought, I'm going to have a bit of that as well. It has been

:39:47. > :39:53.just seven months since you have retired, Andrew. It seems longer,

:39:53. > :39:58.to be honest. How has it been? has been relaxed. I have had a bit

:39:58. > :40:03.of time at home. It has been nice not to have to be so disciplined.

:40:03. > :40:06.The marathon training has taken over from that a bit. It has been a

:40:06. > :40:11.good process for us to go through together, all of those training

:40:11. > :40:16.runs and getting ready for this. We are so excited to get out there and

:40:16. > :40:22.do it now. Are you going to run together every step? Absolutely

:40:22. > :40:26.not! He will be finishing faster than I am. And a word about your

:40:26. > :40:31.charity. The aim is to give disadvantaged kids a sporting

:40:31. > :40:38.chance. Having been so fortunate to play sport for a living, it is a

:40:38. > :40:42.charity that is close to my heart. We are delighted to support them.

:40:42. > :40:47.look forward to speaking to you at the finish, a bit more dishevelled,

:40:47. > :40:56.I would imagine. Over to Sonali. I'm with two gentleman who are also

:40:56. > :41:01.raising money for the same charity. They are running today in memory of

:41:01. > :41:08.the 1981 Ashes hero, their father, Graham Dili. I know both of you are

:41:08. > :41:11.into your cricket. But why run in his memory? Running is something I

:41:11. > :41:16.have not been particularly good at. We know our dad would be looking

:41:16. > :41:21.down, having a chuckle at us running 26.2. We thought that would

:41:21. > :41:28.be what we would go for. It is a big event and something we can tear

:41:28. > :41:34.ourselves towards. How much are you hoping to raise? Our initial target

:41:34. > :41:38.was �2,000 each. Anything after that will go to the hospice where

:41:38. > :41:44.our dead spent his final days, which we both think is a good cause.

:41:44. > :41:48.It will really honour his memory. If you are both not natural runners,

:41:48. > :41:55.how has the training been going? came into it with a few injuries.

:41:55. > :42:00.We have had to do it with that in mind. It has been going OK. It is a

:42:00. > :42:03.wonderful thing to do. We will be cheering you on. Thank you.The

:42:03. > :42:10.don't forget, you can watch the women's race live.

:42:10. > :42:14.We are going to start the build up to the wheelchair race now. It

:42:14. > :42:24.features the greatest racer of all time, David Weir. He likes to race

:42:24. > :42:29.

:42:29. > :42:39.once. Winning it six times is a dream come true. I hope to win it

:42:39. > :42:46.

:42:46. > :42:48.be going for a seventh title. I never thought that. I never even

:42:48. > :42:53.thought I would meddle in the Paralympics. The confidence of

:42:53. > :42:57.winning, that is when you get confidence in everything. You have

:42:57. > :43:04.to have challenges in training. It has been the worst winter I had

:43:04. > :43:12.experience. The called wind, some such as I got back and felt like

:43:12. > :43:17.crying. -- cold wind. I'd dug deep and got through it. I feel

:43:17. > :43:21.refreshed after the Games. I feel motivated, steal. I think I am in

:43:21. > :43:25.better shape than I was going into the last London Marathon. All of

:43:25. > :43:32.the top guys have done Button and they have come to do London, and

:43:32. > :43:37.they are in good shape. The field is the toughest I have seen. They

:43:37. > :43:47.have been racing all over the world. I can never judge myself. I can in

:43:47. > :43:52.

:43:52. > :43:57.training, but against other shouting out who know me. This year,

:43:57. > :44:01.it is going to be everybody down the Mall. Even the bits that are

:44:01. > :44:08.quieter, people are going to be seeing last race. I have got a new

:44:08. > :44:18.helmet. It has got a designer wear off on the front. It is fantastic.

:44:18. > :44:27.

:44:27. > :44:30.-- werewolf. You can see it from a to the Mall now, where Tanni is.

:44:30. > :44:35.to the Mall now, where Tanni is. Would you like to see him break

:44:35. > :44:39.your record? I would, actually. He deserves it. I have known him since

:44:39. > :44:43.he was seven years old. He has always had such a natural talent.

:44:43. > :44:47.It didn't matter how many times people told him, it was about six

:44:47. > :44:51.years ago that he realised he had it himself. He has gone from

:44:51. > :44:55.strength to strength. The competitor in the, if I was able to

:44:55. > :44:58.compete, I would not want him to have the record. But there's

:44:59. > :45:06.nothing to get me back into a chair to do the time. If anybody is going

:45:06. > :45:11.to take it, I am happy that it is David. We are focusing on David,

:45:11. > :45:17.but the field is loaded. Last year, it was almost a blanket finish. It

:45:17. > :45:23.is going to be tough for him. David has been saying all week that

:45:23. > :45:27.it depends on how the pack chooses to compete. In the past, there's

:45:27. > :45:31.been attempts to break him, but not consistently making it hard. If

:45:31. > :45:36.anybody else wants to win, they have to make the first 10

:45:36. > :45:41.kilometres hard for David. He covers every break. He doesn't tend

:45:41. > :45:47.to go to the front and pull hard. With the numbers, there's 20 guys

:45:47. > :45:57.in the elite race crew could all finished close together. They can't

:45:57. > :46:05.

:46:05. > :46:09.Wood, silver in London, perhaps disappointing. How do you fancy hard

:46:09. > :46:12.chances? She is really strong, she needs to

:46:12. > :46:17.race completely different tactics to David, she does not want a sprint

:46:17. > :46:22.finish, so she will have to make it very hard early on for the rest of

:46:22. > :46:27.the women, that is where she is most successful. It is very interesting

:46:27. > :46:31.to see how the American athletes will work together. You have Tatyana

:46:31. > :46:36.MacFadden and Amanda McGrory, they train together and are based out of

:46:36. > :46:43.the University of note -- University of Illinois. They will want to make

:46:43. > :46:46.sure they have a good race and make it hard for her.

:46:46. > :46:56.Thank you very much, we will hear from you and Paul Dickenson shortly,

:46:56. > :47:00.

:47:00. > :47:05.but let's head back to the women's kilometres and are sitting back a

:47:05. > :47:11.bit, the pacemakers are ten seconds ahead. In fact, 14 seconds ahead of

:47:11. > :47:16.this group. They are all looking at each other, they have slowed down,

:47:16. > :47:22.the pacemakers have slowed because this group of talented women in

:47:22. > :47:32.these early stages are not up for a fast race today. The first five

:47:32. > :47:33.

:47:33. > :47:38.kilometres time of 16.2 to is not particularly quick, at all. --

:47:38. > :47:47.16.22. Susan Partridge is a little further ahead in 123, there is Amy

:47:47. > :47:49.Whitehead, she has had plenty of injuries in the past. More of her

:47:50. > :47:54.shortly but we are back to the start for the start of the wheelchair

:47:55. > :47:59.race. It certainly is elite in every sense

:47:59. > :48:06.of the word in terms of times achieved in the pass and races one.

:48:06. > :48:15.-- in the past. Let us just pause for the introductions to both the

:48:15. > :48:24.men and first of all the women. ANNOUNCER: Shirley Reilly. Alongside

:48:24. > :48:30.her, she won three track golds at London 20 -- London 2012, the Boston

:48:30. > :48:36.champion, Tatyana MacFadden. In absolutely brilliant form this

:48:36. > :48:40.year as she was last year, too. And the Powerline -- Paralympic

:48:40. > :48:45.silver medallist and defending champion in the London Marathon,

:48:45. > :48:53.Shelly Woods. She holds the course record jointly with Amanda McGrory

:48:54. > :49:03.of the USA. In the men's raced, para -- Paralympic silver medallist,

:49:03. > :49:10.Marcel Hug. Alongside him, from Japan, 2013 Boston Marathon

:49:10. > :49:16.champion, the 2012 Tokyo champion, Hiroyuki Yamamoto.

:49:16. > :49:20.A real marathon specialist. And stand-by for six times

:49:20. > :49:28.champion, four times Paralympic gold medallist for Great Britain, it is

:49:28. > :49:33.the where Wilf, David Weir. Loud cheers, by the time he gets to

:49:33. > :49:35.the Mall, the cheers will be absolutely deafening. Re-energised

:49:35. > :49:41.after his Paralympic exploits last year.

:49:41. > :49:48.And our starter is David Bedford. David Bedford in just a moment we'll

:49:48. > :49:52.send them on their way. Jenny Archer, David Weir's coach, will be

:49:52. > :50:02.down there watching. They have a plan, they were round Richmond Park

:50:02. > :50:05.

:50:05. > :50:12.yesterday for a two-mile train, and he said everything has been going as

:50:12. > :50:16.according to plan. I way we go with the men's and

:50:16. > :50:24.women's elite wheelchair race... Conditions look absolutely perfect.

:50:24. > :50:29.I am not sure how much wind is on the course. Like so many of the

:50:29. > :50:34.elite athletes and the Paralympic athletes, the heat is not going to

:50:34. > :50:40.be a problem at the moment, unless it heats up dramatically later on.

:50:40. > :50:47.All eyes will be on David Weir, sporting that new helmet. He is just

:50:47. > :50:51.tucked in behind the leader. Things are promising to be fascinating, and

:50:51. > :50:59.certainly David Weir should be in the leading group by the time we get

:50:59. > :51:01.to the Mall in just over an hour and a half's time.

:51:01. > :51:04.Perfect weather conditions for the wheelchair race today. The fact it

:51:04. > :51:08.is dry and warm it means there is much less debris on the road,

:51:08. > :51:12.athletes have struggled with punctures in the past in London, and

:51:12. > :51:17.I am pleased to see David Weir is wearing his team GB kit. There are

:51:17. > :51:23.some parts of the Coast -- course that are very fast and it is hard to

:51:23. > :51:27.pinpoint the athletes, and I think what will be brilliant will be the

:51:27. > :51:29.amount of support David and Shelly Woods will get, which will be

:51:29. > :51:36.irritating for everyone competing against them.

:51:36. > :51:42.There are three main protagonists for the wheelchair race, Ernst Van

:51:43. > :51:48.Dyk, multi-marathon winner at -- around the world. Kurt Fearnley, of

:51:48. > :51:52.Australia, who is the course record holder from 2009. The great Heinz

:51:52. > :51:56.Frei and Marcel Hug, as well. The field is packed full of talent,

:51:56. > :51:59.isn't it? It is the best men's field we have ever had in the wheelchair

:51:59. > :52:04.race. As David said in his interview, most

:52:04. > :52:08.of them have come from LA and Boston, and David is choosy about

:52:08. > :52:18.how he races, which I think is very smart, but it means they will be

:52:18. > :52:22.

:52:22. > :52:25.watching out for him. If you women's race, as well come incredibly strong

:52:25. > :52:28.in terms of personal bests and how the raced. It will be interesting to

:52:28. > :52:31.see how Tatiana performance. She had so many punctures at the madness --

:52:31. > :52:34.Olympic marathon she will be wanting to show what she can do in London.

:52:34. > :52:38.We have the International Paralympic committee athletics marathon World

:52:38. > :52:46.Cup, featuring a number of Paralympic champions, world

:52:46. > :52:53.champions and world-record holders. The indomitable Richard Whitehead,

:52:53. > :53:03.double amputee, his best time for the marathon is the world record at

:53:03. > :53:03.

:53:03. > :53:10.2: 42. He won the Paralympic 200 metres title in the stadium just up

:53:10. > :53:18.the road from here. Incredible cheers, I way we go. Richard

:53:18. > :53:22.Whitehead on the far side. We have some very good Brazilian athletes in

:53:22. > :53:28.the single amputee class, as well. We have visually impaired athletes,

:53:28. > :53:33.too, running with Gaidar runners. Yes, you can see that the games are

:53:33. > :53:36.winning orange, and it is tough for the men to get Gaidar runners quick

:53:36. > :53:42.enough. It is crucial to make sure the guides are in the right place to

:53:42. > :53:46.swap over. You can see they are running with tethers, some will run

:53:46. > :53:53.very close some will run further at a distance. This is a really strong

:53:53. > :53:56.move by Nayland in marathon, because weather has been a very competition

:53:56. > :54:01.opportunity for the wheelchair racers, there has not been that for

:54:01. > :54:04.the Blind and visually impaired athletes. It is a massive -- a

:54:04. > :54:14.massive opportunity for the Olympics and world championships to have the

:54:14. > :54:47.

:54:47. > :54:51.world-class and elite field Morocco. Tim Prendergast from New

:54:51. > :55:01.Zealand, a real hero in that country, solitary representative in

:55:01. > :55:11.the key 42 /43 category, Richard Whitehead. He is one of the fastest

:55:11. > :55:14.

:55:14. > :55:17.in the field. There are some of the single amputee is there. Lendner It

:55:17. > :55:23.is a very strong athlete from Germany, he has won every title

:55:23. > :55:28.going. Chris Hammer from the United States is a very strong athlete,

:55:28. > :55:32.too. That race will unfold in due course and we will try and keep tabs

:55:33. > :55:35.on it and give you an update, certainly on Richard Whitehead's

:55:35. > :55:45.progress, because he will be instantly recognisable by the

:55:45. > :55:46.

:55:46. > :55:51.Lots of different events taking part as the day progresses, and of course

:55:51. > :55:55.the mini marathon, so much part of marathon day now, the likes of Mo

:55:55. > :56:00.Farah in the past have won this race. We will see name-3-macro later

:56:00. > :56:04.on. A chance for some of our bright young stars to show the pace, as

:56:04. > :56:10.well. A great day for them, we will bring you a full report later of all

:56:10. > :56:16.the winners in the different age groups. They are all just finishing

:56:16. > :56:22.right in front of us as we sit in the Mall and await the women's elite

:56:23. > :56:27.and men's elite. The main race off at 10am, but the women are well into

:56:27. > :56:31.the race. It has been up and down, the pacemakers have had a hard job

:56:31. > :56:35.to judge this. The group did not seem that Keaton, they have waited

:56:35. > :56:42.and allowed them to get back together. The first five commenters

:56:42. > :56:49.was... Not exactly slow, but around the 2: 20, Mark, which is slower

:56:49. > :56:53.than they had asked for. This is a big race to win, we have Olympic

:56:53. > :56:57.champions, world champions in here, there is a wad of kudos. It is not

:56:57. > :57:02.about recklessly going after times. Certainly, they are not recklessly

:57:02. > :57:07.going after times. The pacemakers have drifted back. But if you look

:57:07. > :57:11.at the calibre of these athletes, victory is not pursued. There is no

:57:11. > :57:14.clear outstanding favourite. The Olympic champion may not be the

:57:14. > :57:18.favourite here. She has a competitive race, it will be

:57:18. > :57:23.competitive, and it is good to see them in this manner. It is good to

:57:23. > :57:27.see the two Japanese athletes, both joined that leading group, which

:57:27. > :57:37.tells you the pace is a little bit of what they were talking about

:57:37. > :57:38.

:57:38. > :57:41.beforehand. There is Florence Kibler Gatt, the Olympic silver medallist

:57:41. > :57:46.is looking good beer, and various Tiki Gelana, just relaxing in the

:57:46. > :57:51.middle of the group, very comfortable there, running here in

:57:51. > :57:55.London after having won the Olympics in London in completely different

:57:55. > :58:02.conditions. The Olympic Games was a downpour, soaking wet, and we all

:58:02. > :58:12.got wet, but it was a great race. You never stop complaining, did you?

:58:12. > :58:14.

:58:14. > :58:19.We just noticed that mail was 5.51, and that is a very small mile.

:58:19. > :58:24.That is a very small -- slow mile. It is usually one of the faster

:58:24. > :58:28.miles. That explains why you have seen the groups bunched together.

:58:28. > :58:32.The Japanese girls are back on the back of the pack and the group

:58:32. > :58:38.behind is getting closer, too. Just information for the British girls

:58:38. > :58:43.coming through five K, Susan Partridge was through in about 16.59

:58:43. > :58:50.with Amy Whitehead behind her. They are running about 223 pace -- 2.23

:58:50. > :58:53.pace, which is very good for them. Susan Partridge from the West Coast

:58:54. > :59:01.of Scotland, she has been in Boulder training, and Amy Whitehead with

:59:01. > :59:11.her. We are picking up some tips from the great Steve Jones, helping

:59:11. > :59:22.

:59:23. > :59:26.awkward action, everyone knows about it, although you probably saw it as

:59:27. > :59:31.a good effect appeal begins, as well. She has a gap around her,

:59:31. > :59:36.people keep out of the way, and both Tiki Gelana and Edna Kiplagat, when

:59:36. > :59:46.they won the Olympic and World Championship titles, both fell

:59:46. > :59:56.

:59:56. > :00:05.during the race and got up and won the toilets are record-breaking, it

:00:05. > :00:12.would seem! They are all bursting. That is the pre-match nerves. Let's

:00:13. > :00:18.head back to Greenwich Park. I am with rusty, who will be

:00:18. > :00:24.running with her daughter. I know it is not polite to ask your age,

:00:25. > :00:31.but I am going to. This is something to be proud of. I am 72.

:00:31. > :00:38.It is my first marathon. That is amazing. Everybody should try it.

:00:38. > :00:46.And you have been training together? Not entirely. We have

:00:46. > :00:51.been keeping in touch through technology. Rusty, I assume you

:00:51. > :00:57.want to encourage people to get out there and run at any age? Yes, much

:00:57. > :01:07.better than washing up! Better exercise as well. Best of luck to

:01:07. > :01:09.

:01:09. > :01:14.today. I am with three people who competed there. Thank you for

:01:14. > :01:20.joining us. Rosie, where were you when the bomb went off? I had

:01:20. > :01:25.finished and I was just past the finish. I was in central Boston. It

:01:25. > :01:29.was an incredible day. We have been overwhelmed by the people of Boston,

:01:29. > :01:34.and how they treated us on the day. They did all they could to look

:01:34. > :01:38.after us even though they were hurting. Keith, it is difficult to

:01:38. > :01:44.put into words what you must have felt. It goes against the whole

:01:44. > :01:48.spirit of what a marathon day is about. Absolutely. Marathons are

:01:48. > :01:53.about people coming together, on both sides of the barrier. It is

:01:53. > :02:01.normally amazing. That was partly ruined in Boston. It's up to us to

:02:01. > :02:04.put some of that back and say we are better than this. Craig, I

:02:04. > :02:11.think I am right to say that you had not anticipated running in

:02:11. > :02:15.London. No, no, I planned not to. I had a number but it was as a back-

:02:15. > :02:19.up in case anything happened in terms of getting to Boston. But

:02:19. > :02:26.actually, it had the opposite effect. It inspired me to come down

:02:26. > :02:32.here and use my run and raise money for the victims. You are winning

:02:32. > :02:41.your T-shirts proudly. What kind of response have you had? A few people

:02:41. > :02:45.on the tube had asked. They thought we lived in Boston. But yeah, a

:02:45. > :02:55.good feeling and goodwill. Everybody is United to day out

:02:55. > :02:55.

:02:56. > :03:00.there. -- United today. Poignantly, you are wearing your black ribbons.

:03:00. > :03:05.It is so much in our mind, the people who have been hurt in this

:03:05. > :03:09.thing. What I want to do today is to thank the supporters of Boston.

:03:09. > :03:13.When I finished the race, the first thing I said was, it was the best

:03:13. > :03:17.supported marathon I have ever been at. The supporters are so selfless.

:03:17. > :03:22.They are the people who don't get any glory. They just come and help

:03:22. > :03:27.other people. I just want to honour them by doing this. Thank you for

:03:27. > :03:31.doing this. I know it will be tough, but all the best. All of the

:03:31. > :03:41.runners will be wearing those black ribbons. Let's head back out of

:03:41. > :03:45.

:03:45. > :03:50.them to the cause. -- out onto the conditions over the skyline of

:03:50. > :03:56.London. The wheelchair racers have already gone through five

:03:56. > :04:05.kilometres in a brisk nine minutes. Yamamoto is in the lead, just ahead

:04:05. > :04:12.of David Weir. The distinctive helmet there of the giant man from

:04:12. > :04:19.South Africa, Ernst Van Dyk. David we're just keeping close order to

:04:19. > :04:27.the leader. That is going to be important for him. -- David Weir.

:04:27. > :04:31.The course is deceptive. There's a lot of little ups and downs.

:04:31. > :04:35.Yamamoto had strung everybody out, and then on the flat they have all

:04:35. > :04:40.come back together again. Dave is reacting to other people. He is

:04:40. > :04:50.very good. He is watching everybody, making sure he is not blocked. He

:04:50. > :04:53.is in a great position right now. STEVE CRAM: look at the view on

:04:53. > :05:03.this spectacular day in London. Cutty Sark has been such a big part

:05:03. > :05:07.

:05:07. > :05:13.of the marathon. It is sitting there, resplendent in the sunshine.

:05:13. > :05:23.I can tell you that the pace continues to slow, really. The 10

:05:23. > :05:23.

:05:23. > :05:29.kilometre mark there. The group is pretty slow over the last five

:05:29. > :05:36.kilometres. They don't seem to want to push this on all. The pacemakers

:05:36. > :05:40.keeper trying to push them. I think they have decided that the pace is

:05:40. > :05:47.whatever it is. The pacemakers can do what they want. But we have got

:05:47. > :05:54.some great athletes here. There are big prizes to be one. It is part of

:05:54. > :05:58.the world were Arathoon majors. -- marathon majors. The overall time

:05:58. > :06:04.will become more relevant towards the end of the event. Here, they

:06:04. > :06:10.are not so interested. You sense here that the crowds of London are

:06:10. > :06:15.responding, as we thought they might, but coming out in all of

:06:15. > :06:21.their glory. Look at the Cutty Sark. What a landmark this is. What a

:06:21. > :06:26.place to watch it. It is going to get more busy as the next couple of

:06:26. > :06:30.hours tick by. It is an amazing place to run. When I came through

:06:30. > :06:33.the first time, I could not believe the atmosphere around here. These

:06:33. > :06:39.guys are having a big party out there and we run through the middle

:06:39. > :06:42.of it. It really gives the runners a boost. I remember coming out the

:06:42. > :06:46.other side with a gap I had not intended to build. I had to keep

:06:46. > :06:54.going on that, because once you have a gap, you have to not looked

:06:54. > :07:01.back. You can see the pacemakers are getting on a chair. -- on edge

:07:01. > :07:05.here. They don't know whether to push on all wait for the group.

:07:05. > :07:14.Pushing on are the two British athletes. They are running away

:07:14. > :07:20.inside their personal best at the moment. They are running around

:07:20. > :07:23.2.25 pace, which has a quick start for them. Let's hope they have

:07:23. > :07:29.judged it right. The crowds will only billed as they wait in

:07:29. > :07:35.anticipation for the main race. -- built. That is one of the big

:07:35. > :07:41.vantage points on the route. Just starting to break up a bit, that

:07:41. > :07:51.group. A couple of the Japanese athletes are dropping off the back.

:07:51. > :08:01.

:08:01. > :08:11.well. She will know the crowds. It is different when you have to come

:08:11. > :08:12.

:08:12. > :08:19.and race. Jeptoo, with that awkward style, at the back. Just getting a

:08:19. > :08:25.sense that things are starting to pick up. As the African athletes

:08:25. > :08:35.pull away, there's Susan Partridge. She is running a really good race,

:08:35. > :08:37.

:08:37. > :08:47.as Steve said. She has got good company there. She was to keep an

:08:47. > :08:55.

:08:55. > :09:05.eye on hearse blitz. -- fraiche she marathon running. It would be great

:09:05. > :09:06.

:09:06. > :09:12.to see Susan Partridge run well, qualify for the World Championships.

:09:12. > :09:22.Look at this level. Formidable athletes, every one of them in this

:09:22. > :09:28.

:09:28. > :09:32.group. Good knowledge of one numbers together for you through

:09:32. > :09:42.that 10 kilometre point. The pace they are running at the front is

:09:42. > :09:49.

:09:49. > :09:59.well outside to 0.20. It is about to 0.23 or something. -- 2.23 or

:09:59. > :10:13.

:10:13. > :10:23.something. There we go. Ignore the very well. There's Amy Whitehead.

:10:23. > :10:27.Just in front of her art two Japanese athletes. Just leading the

:10:27. > :10:32.group is the kind of pace Amy Whitehead is setting out at. She is

:10:32. > :10:42.wanting to run with other people. You don't want to get cast adrift

:10:42. > :10:50.

:10:50. > :10:55.for too long. Hopefully, she hasn't runners are getting ready. Not long

:10:55. > :11:05.to go, about 20 minutes until the mass start. All sorts of ways of

:11:05. > :11:11.preparing. He will look like that at the finish as well! Let me start

:11:11. > :11:16.with you, Kelly. You are running for the official charity. This is a

:11:16. > :11:22.team run. We are combating isolation and loneliness in the

:11:22. > :11:29.older generation. The younger generation can skill older people

:11:29. > :11:32.to be more communicative on the internet. Most older people only

:11:32. > :11:41.have a TV to communicate with the world. Helping them to get on the

:11:41. > :11:51.internet helps them. We got the idea! I am a bit nervous!Let me

:11:51. > :11:58.

:11:58. > :12:07.come to you three. Was this a holly Oaks thing. -- Hollyoaks thing?

:12:07. > :12:11.There's a few of us. I am the odd one out. I am running for the Roy

:12:11. > :12:18.Castle Foundation. These guys did it last year. It has been fantastic

:12:18. > :12:23.already. Let me come to you, Kelly. How has the training been? It is a

:12:23. > :12:27.bit harder and longer. But it is enjoyable. When you have done a 20

:12:27. > :12:32.mile run, it feels good afterwards. I never thought I would achieve

:12:32. > :12:37.something like this. This time last year, I was out of the Olympics and

:12:37. > :12:43.had prolapsed two discs. This might be the start of my Hon -- marathon

:12:43. > :12:47.career! I want to enjoy this one. You don't know what to expect with

:12:47. > :12:51.the first one. Hopefully a nice, sensible time that I can break

:12:51. > :12:57.missed here. These guys are going to be competitive. I am not sure

:12:57. > :13:07.who is going to win between them but it is going to be intense. Here

:13:07. > :13:13.

:13:13. > :13:18.April and added a bronze at the Olympics. After placing third in

:13:18. > :13:21.2011, injury forced Patrick Makau to drop out mid- race last year. A

:13:21. > :13:26.former winner of the Berlin marathon, he will be a force to

:13:26. > :13:36.reckon with. Just like Geoffrey Mutai, he can point to previous

:13:36. > :13:36.

:13:36. > :13:44.excesses by way of his credentials. Leading the Ethiopian champion --

:13:44. > :13:48.challenge is this runner. His compatriot, Ayele Abshero, made his

:13:49. > :13:52.debut last year, setting a blistering pace. Stephen Kiprotich

:13:52. > :13:59.brought the curtain down on last summer's Olympics with gold on the

:13:59. > :14:04.final day. It was the first such medal for Uganda in 40 years,

:14:04. > :14:08.giving him a national hero status. What a time to find the best to

:14:08. > :14:18.have ever done. Those qualities could see him take the tape again

:14:18. > :14:23.

:14:23. > :14:33.because he is not a contender, is Mo Farah. He has been speaking to

:14:33. > :14:35.

:14:35. > :14:43.I am doing half the race. It is to a chance to practise. And not there

:14:43. > :14:48.to destroy the race or cause a problem. I'm just to learn.

:14:49. > :14:55.yes! Next year, I'm going to do the full marathon. This year, I'm just

:14:55. > :15:03.going out, enjoying it, doing all of this stuff, the press and the

:15:04. > :15:13.media. It is not just, you know, Mo is going to come here and run.

:15:14. > :15:14.

:15:14. > :15:20.the mind going? If I didn't enjoy it, I have been training for five

:15:20. > :15:30.kilometres and 10 kilometres. I'm only going to do what my team

:15:30. > :15:30.

:15:30. > :15:34.planned for May. Straight up the race, I will see how I feel. We

:15:34. > :15:38.will know what we need to work on. For me, it will be great. I will

:15:38. > :15:44.learn about the opposition as well. You have to think, how is he

:15:44. > :15:49.looking? Is he looking good there? Do I need to make a move? People

:15:49. > :15:54.should not lose sight of the fact that your focus is the world

:15:54. > :15:57.championships on the track. I would like to be able to go out there and

:15:58. > :16:07.try to win that race more than anything else. That is what is on

:16:08. > :16:14.

:16:14. > :16:19.Are you going to have fun with this? People will be supporting just you.

:16:19. > :16:23.I want people to support the leading guys, because the pace that they go

:16:23. > :16:32.at is ridiculous. This year is the strongest it has ever been. There

:16:32. > :16:38.are so many guys that run 2: 04, just going up and up.

:16:38. > :16:42.Mate, if you have any money to wager, put it on the Mo Farah

:16:42. > :16:49.foundation, a great cause, I am not going to finish the race, I will

:16:49. > :16:51.tell you that for sure. It will be a race with multiple storylines, Mo

:16:52. > :16:59.being one of them. Let us go back to the women's elite

:16:59. > :17:04.race with the commentary team, Steve, Paula and Stephen. Steve, let

:17:04. > :17:08.us get the Mo question out of the way. He is in the middle of a storm

:17:08. > :17:16.he never anticipated. I did not criticise, it was Paula,

:17:16. > :17:19.not me. It is great for the event that he is here. It is great for the

:17:19. > :17:23.people of London, but just as athletes we sometimes think why

:17:23. > :17:28.would you want to do something like that that will be hard work today,

:17:28. > :17:32.they will go very fast, and he will have all of that great rehearsal but

:17:32. > :17:36.he will be tired at the end of it and come back next year and have to

:17:36. > :17:41.do the whole thing. That is the question, why didn't he run the

:17:41. > :17:45.second-half? Why would you ever wanted to do that? That is one of my

:17:45. > :17:50.points. He could find himself of being the position for that Michael

:17:50. > :17:52.being a pacemaker for one of his future rivals setting a world

:17:52. > :17:56.record. I think he will enjoy it today. He

:17:56. > :18:00.said he is going to put drinks out. He has been enjoying going around

:18:00. > :18:05.the Hotel watching everything going on. I think he has learned from

:18:05. > :18:08.that. I would like to see him take it a little easy after the first few

:18:08. > :18:14.miles. I think you are all getting a little too technical.

:18:14. > :18:19.At the end of the day, he is double world champion comedy can do what he

:18:19. > :18:26.wants. He is a pioneer, if he says he can learn something next year.

:18:26. > :18:30.Good luck, Mo, good to see you, we will see you on the track next

:18:30. > :18:34.summer. We hope that he has a good

:18:34. > :18:37.experience today and that he comes back next year, because we all think

:18:37. > :18:41.he is capable of having a great London Marathon.

:18:41. > :18:46.Absolutely, he will have a great experience, he has run the mini

:18:46. > :18:50.marathon before, but that is not the same as the actual marathon. He will

:18:50. > :18:54.get a feel for that and I think it will give him an even bigger buzz to

:18:54. > :18:58.go and train really hard for next year.

:18:58. > :19:02.He mentioned he was 25-1, Brendan and I always like to look at the

:19:02. > :19:06.and I always like to look at the odds. Let us have a look for you. At

:19:06. > :19:13.the front it is about Wilson Kipsang, everyone expecting the man

:19:13. > :19:19.who should have won the Olympic title last year. Geoffrey Mutai, the

:19:19. > :19:25.true world record-holder, Patrick Makau. Irvette van Zyl is a good

:19:25. > :19:30.bet, and a little further down, the Olympic champion, 14-1, would you?

:19:30. > :19:37.You sound like the William Hill betting adviser now. There is my �20

:19:37. > :19:42.that will see Mo Farah will win in the near future.

:19:42. > :19:48.Can use what those flies that came out from his wallet? -- can you

:19:48. > :19:56.support those flies. Today he is only going to run half

:19:56. > :20:01.of it and we will enjoy that, as I had a pack of questions prepared

:20:01. > :20:09.but I did not really need them, did I? Let us head back to the elite ten

:20:09. > :20:13.now with Colin Jackson. I mentioned the women's tent was

:20:13. > :20:17.full of talent, but arguably here we have the best meal marathon runners

:20:17. > :20:21.on the planet. We have former winners here participating today,

:20:21. > :20:31.and if you listen to rumours buzzing around, they are looking at a

:20:31. > :20:31.

:20:32. > :20:36.winning time around 2: 04, which is mind-boggling. We all know the story

:20:36. > :20:39.about Mo Farah, these guys are preparing for the final onslaught,

:20:39. > :20:44.while people like Scott Overall in the back, he wants another good

:20:44. > :20:51.marathon under his belt. There is a lot of excitement here in this tent,

:20:51. > :20:55.so I am going to vanish and I will see you shortly on the course.

:20:55. > :20:59.JONATHAN EDWARDS: What a picture that is and it is not long to go to

:20:59. > :21:02.the start of the elite men's race and the masses, and they cant wait,

:21:02. > :21:12.they have been waiting a long time, they are getting cold.

:21:12. > :21:14.

:21:14. > :21:19.The women have been going for a good a little bit, the wheelchair

:21:19. > :21:23.athletes going past them as they passed the 15 kilometre mark, the

:21:23. > :21:32.pace has picked up. That mean group still very much together, no one

:21:32. > :21:41.trying to break away from it. It did look like Edna Kiplagat was moving

:21:41. > :21:45.on. That is an aid station, that was Tiki Gelana that went down there.

:21:45. > :21:49.The wheelchair athletes came alongside, the women were looking

:21:49. > :21:54.for the banks and stepped across. Let us have a look at that. This

:21:54. > :21:58.happens so much melodies, we have seen people fall at stations. The

:21:58. > :22:04.Olympic champion cuts rate across, does not see the wheelchair athlete

:22:04. > :22:09.on the inside, I hope she is not part, the guys seem OK. Everyone is

:22:09. > :22:18.looking around to see what is going on, we think that Tiki Gelana may

:22:18. > :22:22.have stopped. She is still back there, I think. There she is. Thank

:22:22. > :22:27.goodness she is still running, that will not have helped at all, that

:22:27. > :22:31.was a very heavy fault. That was really nasty, she did not see the

:22:31. > :22:34.wheelchair is that had snapped through on the inside to make sure

:22:34. > :22:39.they got their bottles. Edna Kiplagat actually stopped,

:22:39. > :22:42.calmly walked across to check her bottle, then started by running. I

:22:42. > :22:47.think she escaped, that was an ASCII fall and will not have helped if she

:22:47. > :22:52.has hit her hip in any way. That will put her off her stride. They

:22:52. > :22:59.were not running at a fast pace. -- that was amassed a fall.

:22:59. > :23:03.We have seen that, haven't we two elite field, only ten athletes, the

:23:03. > :23:07.stations are brilliantly organised, but we have seen it too many times,

:23:07. > :23:11.to be honest. Sometimes it is the organisation, but in this case I

:23:11. > :23:16.think it was the athletes. They know where the stations are, there are

:23:16. > :23:20.markings, they have to gauge the effort, they have there own specific

:23:20. > :23:24.drinks on those feeds stations, and it needs more attention. It is great

:23:24. > :23:31.to see Tiki Gelana, the other big campaign, back in action. She slowed

:23:31. > :23:35.down and came back to the group. -- the Olympic champion.

:23:35. > :23:39.For me that was marshalling error, they should have told the the

:23:39. > :23:44.wheelchair's work coming through. It can catches by surprise when they

:23:45. > :23:49.come through. Tanni, what did you make of that?

:23:49. > :23:54.I have been in a similar situation, the chairs are coming in and you try

:23:54. > :23:59.and show to head to let them know which side you are on.

:23:59. > :24:02.It is really tough. Certainly when I was doing it, the elite women's fine

:24:02. > :24:12.with all the photographers on it would be shouting to make sure the

:24:12. > :24:15.

:24:15. > :24:19.Drama there, let us hope that does not influence the outcome of the

:24:19. > :24:29.race. We will focus now on the men's race and the chance for one of them

:24:29. > :24:39.to enter into London's history And the old record is going to be

:24:39. > :24:53.

:24:53. > :25:03.broken by over a minute. Martin Lel makes a bit of history

:25:03. > :25:05.

:25:05. > :25:08.and London 2008. under way, I will head to the finish

:25:08. > :25:18.and leave you in the capable hands of our commentary team led by Steve

:25:18. > :25:18.

:25:18. > :25:22.watching, these scenes are white people tune in. The elite field at

:25:22. > :25:27.the front is always one of the stories, there are so many out

:25:27. > :25:31.there, we will be looking forward to seeing Wilson Kipsang, Patrick

:25:31. > :25:39.Makau, the world record-holder. Scott Overall, the number one

:25:39. > :25:44.British runner. Of course, Mo Farah, through the first half. I think

:25:44. > :25:47.today is really about the rest of the field and the rest of the

:25:47. > :25:52.marathon world. I read one quote this week from someone who ran in

:25:52. > :25:57.Boston saying, the reason marathons are so popular is we have become

:25:57. > :26:00.addicted to not just overcoming our physical limits but the way these

:26:00. > :26:05.personal victories come together, and I think never has the world of

:26:05. > :26:08.marathon running been sewed together as it has been this week. Everyone

:26:08. > :26:14.is wearing black ribbons and in a moment there will be a few words

:26:14. > :26:18.from the organisers on the broadcast system to organise those waiting to

:26:18. > :26:28.take part, and then there will be 30 seconds of silence and a chance to

:26:28. > :26:43.

:26:43. > :26:48.reflect and remember the events of ANNOUNCER: Marathon running is a

:26:48. > :26:51.global sport, uniting runners and athletes on every continent in

:26:51. > :26:55.pursuit of a common challenge and in the spirit of fellowship and

:26:55. > :26:58.friendship. This week, the world Marathon family was shocked and

:26:58. > :27:03.saddened by the events at the Boston Marathon. In a few moments, a

:27:03. > :27:07.whistle will sound and we will join together in silence to remember our

:27:07. > :27:13.friends and colleagues, for whom a day of joy turned into a day of

:27:13. > :27:23.sadness. Let us know sure our respect and support for the victims

:27:23. > :28:02.

:28:02. > :28:06.Perfectly observed, and I saw one other comment that said, if you are

:28:06. > :28:12.trying to break the human spirit, marathon runners are the wrong group

:28:12. > :28:16.to pick on. All sorts of stories out there today, and all will be

:28:16. > :28:26.thinking of those affected in Boston. To the front, there is Mo

:28:26. > :28:33.

:28:33. > :28:43.ANNOUNCER: Wearing number five, the 2010 virgin London Marathon

:28:43. > :28:47.

:28:47. > :28:53.champion, from Ethiopia, Tsegaye bronze medallist and the defending

:28:53. > :29:01.marathon champion from Kenya, Wilson Kipsang.

:29:01. > :29:11.Wearing number two, the fastest man in history, the world record-holder

:29:11. > :29:17.

:29:17. > :29:27.Marathon Majors champion, when in New York, Boston and Berlin, from

:29:27. > :29:46.

:29:46. > :29:50.please welcome your race starter. Under his stewardship, �500 million

:29:50. > :30:00.were raised for charity. The former world record-holder for 10,000

:30:00. > :30:29.

:30:29. > :30:35.ready to go. Now we get on with the athletes and the 36,000 others to

:30:35. > :30:45.show their respect but also to show what they can do. A beautiful day

:30:45. > :30:54.

:30:54. > :30:59.in London. The crowds have not been ago. The great Chris Brasher

:30:59. > :31:09.watched and came home, and in the road, to believe this story, you

:31:09. > :31:13.

:31:13. > :31:18.must believe the human race to be one joyous group. He set up this

:31:18. > :31:22.race. They have done a brilliant job of turning the London Marathon

:31:22. > :31:28.into perhaps the best in the world. It is nice but they are reflecting

:31:28. > :31:34.that it did start in America, and the Boston Marathon, the patriarch

:31:35. > :31:42.of the world marathons, is in all of our thoughts. They are on their

:31:42. > :31:49.way now. It will take a good 10, 15 minutes or so for them or to cross

:31:49. > :31:56.the redstart. They are all eager to get going.

:31:56. > :31:59.BRENDAN FOSTER: These are the shops that had inspired the nation over

:31:59. > :32:06.the 32 years since the first marathon. Greenwich Park, this is

:32:06. > :32:16.the finest marathon in the world. Dave Bedford has steered the event.

:32:16. > :32:24.

:32:24. > :32:32.Dave by tall has guided it on its The event is a beautifully

:32:32. > :32:37.organised from start to finish. These are the shots that people

:32:37. > :32:43.look at. If they can't get into this event, they fill up events all

:32:43. > :32:48.around the nation. This is the lovely part. You come through, you

:32:48. > :32:55.walk through Greenwich Park, you eventually turn left at the gate,

:32:55. > :33:01.and then you trust the timing chip. It just matters that you cross the

:33:01. > :33:06.line. And then the stories of 37,000 runners here, all of them in

:33:06. > :33:14.their own way challenging themselves and hopefully all of

:33:14. > :33:20.them defeating the challenge. The thought was on Boston the other day.

:33:20. > :33:27.Now the thought is, can London open its heart? The runners are in full

:33:27. > :33:33.flow. This is a glorious sight. PAULA RADCLIFFE: we talk about the

:33:33. > :33:37.sadness and the shock of Boston. There was also a lot of defiance in

:33:37. > :33:43.there, a lot of outrage that humanity was attacked in that way,

:33:43. > :33:48.but also the sport of running. Marathon running does so much good.

:33:48. > :33:53.Over the years, more than �610 million has been raised by London

:33:53. > :33:58.Marathon runners. It can make a huge difference. People have

:33:58. > :34:01.decided we can use the good to do something or Boston. You can see a

:34:01. > :34:05.lot of the runners, they have got the names on their shirts, hoping

:34:05. > :34:11.that people will encourage them personally. That can make a big

:34:11. > :34:17.difference when you get to 21, 22, 23 miles, and you are just holding

:34:17. > :34:20.on, and just for somebody to call you name it can encourage you.

:34:20. > :34:25.organisers have pledged �2 for everybody who crosses the line will

:34:25. > :34:30.go to the fund that is set up by the organisers of the Boston

:34:30. > :34:36.Marathon. I'm sure a lot of people will be contributing to that fund

:34:36. > :34:44.as well. In his first year as race director, Hugh Brasher, the son of

:34:44. > :34:49.the founder, Chris, who, with John Disley, founded the event after

:34:49. > :34:53.much research and effort in the early years, now everything they

:34:53. > :34:58.have worked for over those years and today has been paid back.

:34:58. > :35:06.London is already beginning to respond. We have got away us to go.

:35:06. > :35:11.You can see the -- we have got away as to go. You can see people at the

:35:11. > :35:16.start. They are waiting to get under way. The charity runners are

:35:16. > :35:22.there. Millions have been raised for charity. The amazing thing, for

:35:22. > :35:25.me, is that a marathon is a long way, and it is awfully hard, but in

:35:25. > :35:35.this country, for some reason, people dress up to do it. They

:35:35. > :35:38.

:35:38. > :35:45.carry ladders. Somebody is dragging a cooker today. It is to raise

:35:45. > :35:50.money for his charity. Has he gone a bit upmarket?! They are heavy,

:35:50. > :35:56.those things. It is great. As Brendan said, people find all sorts

:35:56. > :36:06.of reasons to come. There used to be just one reason. You can see on

:36:06. > :36:16.

:36:16. > :36:23.a Schett there the word Boston. -- and I think most people are, let's

:36:23. > :36:27.have a look at the root. There are three different starts. Celebs are

:36:27. > :36:34.on the green start. They all eventually come together. This a

:36:34. > :36:40.pretty Brit quick -- pretty quick part of the course. They come up to

:36:40. > :36:49.Greenwich. At this point, their first major site en route is the

:36:49. > :36:53.Cutty Sark. The crowds will be phenomenal. He eventually, they

:36:53. > :36:58.start to see some of the landmarks in the distance as they go through

:36:58. > :37:02.10 miles. Tower Bridge will start to loom. It is perhaps one of the

:37:02. > :37:10.biggest heels on the course. It is not be, but a big crowd is expected

:37:11. > :37:18.there. -- it is not be. Then they go out to Canary Wharf. This is

:37:18. > :37:22.where it gets a bit twisty antennae. The legs will be getting tired.

:37:22. > :37:27.That was the headquarters for the 2012 team last year. They did a

:37:27. > :37:34.fantastic job. The London Marathon team were part of the Organisation

:37:34. > :37:43.for the marathon at the Olympics. Then they came back into the start

:37:43. > :37:47.of the city, along the Embankment. Then they see the London Eye and

:37:47. > :37:57.Big Ben in the distance. They turn the last corner, just 400 metres to

:37:57. > :38:02.

:38:02. > :38:08.These pictures will be going back to the US, and I'm sure they will

:38:08. > :38:12.be appreciated. We spoke to three people in who have been running and

:38:12. > :38:18.have come straight from Boston to compete. Further down the course,

:38:18. > :38:24.the elite women are just across Tower Bridge, approaching halfway.

:38:24. > :38:31.There's a new landmark. HMS Belfast is down there as well. 320

:38:31. > :38:35.kilometres, you can see that all of the big names are there. We are

:38:35. > :38:43.keeping an eye on the heavy fall a few miles back. She seems to be

:38:43. > :38:48.back in the group there. One of the Japanese athletes is just going

:38:48. > :38:58.with the pacemaker. Some of the others, Brendan, are thinking, do

:38:58. > :39:07.

:39:07. > :39:12.crowds collecting. -- on Tower Bridge. The only thing you can say

:39:12. > :39:17.for certain is once they get to the halfway point, they will accelerate.

:39:17. > :39:23.It will get faster in the second half. It will be a race. Already,

:39:23. > :39:27.different things are happening to what we would expect. We expected

:39:27. > :39:31.that group to stay strong as they together. We are now looking,

:39:31. > :39:36.because of the incident at the Water station, we are looking at

:39:36. > :39:40.Gelana, the Olympic champion. We are looking to see if she has had

:39:40. > :39:44.any after effect of that. At the moment, she seems to have gathered

:39:44. > :39:49.herself. She is a tough character. She is great to have to demonstrate

:39:49. > :39:56.that today. Hopefully there's no effect of her fall.

:39:57. > :40:01.PAULA RADCLIFFE: That fall has certainly affected her race. The

:40:01. > :40:04.group was breaking up. Then the accident happened. The group almost

:40:04. > :40:09.seemed to wait a bit for those who had really fallen, to give them a

:40:09. > :40:17.chance to get back together. It has really closed back up. Keeping an

:40:17. > :40:24.eye on it, one of them was trying to push on. Susan Partridge is

:40:24. > :40:34.still on good pace, but we can see Jessica Augusta, who, for me, has

:40:34. > :40:35.

:40:35. > :40:45.run a smarter ways -- race. She is now moving up and closing on season.

:40:45. > :40:49.

:40:49. > :40:56.-- Susan. Susan, from Oban in Scotland, will be getting plenty of

:40:56. > :41:03.support out there. She is the first British athlete. Alison Dixon ran

:41:03. > :41:10.fast last week in Brighton. Susan Partridge is well under her

:41:10. > :41:20.schedule, as indeed is a white head, who is not far behind her. -- as

:41:20. > :41:32.

:41:32. > :41:42.indeed is a new white head. -- Amy Some way back, Richard Whitehead,

:41:42. > :41:42.

:41:43. > :41:46.getting a huge cheer. We have been watching him all the way around.

:41:46. > :41:55.Every now and then, he just lists an arm to acknowledge the cheers he

:41:55. > :42:00.is getting. He is loving every moment of this. He absolutely years.

:42:00. > :42:05.He had to run in the only event that was available to him in the

:42:05. > :42:11.Paralympics. It has been difficult, a short amount of time to come up

:42:11. > :42:17.from sprinting. But is really welcome on the course today. He is

:42:17. > :42:26.an amazing athlete. Many of them are on their way. It does take a

:42:26. > :42:30.little while. It might be another five minutes or so. We can see

:42:30. > :42:37.Sonali Shah is back at the start with a couple who have yet to cross

:42:37. > :42:44.the line. I am walking to the start with two

:42:44. > :42:51.fairies, Chris and Matthew. We were meant to have a third, you cheese,

:42:51. > :43:00.who's going for fastest ferry around the course. -- your chief.

:43:00. > :43:10.He is itching to break the record. We are raising my knee for a

:43:10. > :43:17.

:43:17. > :43:22.charity that wants to buy a Age UK. He started running in 2004,

:43:22. > :43:26.at the age of 68. As he got older, he wanted to run for a charity that

:43:26. > :43:32.was close to his heart and one who would make life better for older

:43:32. > :43:40.people. To celebrate his 77th birthday, he plans to run a series

:43:40. > :43:45.of races totally 77 miles. -- totaling. In 1998, Catherine's

:43:45. > :43:51.mother passed away from bowel cancer, and then in 2010 her father

:43:51. > :43:54.was diagnosed with the same illness. Having been given the all-clear,

:43:54. > :43:59.heartbreakingly, his cancer returned. Despite this, this family

:43:59. > :44:04.were able to enjoy a lovely summer together, and added London Olympics

:44:05. > :44:09.she was inspired to run the marathon. Sadly, her father passed

:44:09. > :44:16.away last year. She will be running this year's marathon for both

:44:16. > :44:23.parents and in support of beating Bowel cancer.

:44:23. > :44:28.Gavin began to experience the first signs of Hodgkin's lymphoma at the

:44:28. > :44:32.age of 15. He underwent intensive chemotherapy as well as having a

:44:32. > :44:37.stem cell transplant. Thankfully, he was able to make a full recovery

:44:37. > :44:43.and went on to study cell biology. He is now studying for a research

:44:43. > :44:48.PhD at Cambridge. He hopes his research will help others to beat

:44:48. > :44:58.the disease. This year, he will be running for a charity hoping to

:44:58. > :45:16.

:45:16. > :45:20.Tigger there. Whatever your story is, if you have got anybody out

:45:20. > :45:30.there who is running and you want to let us know what they are up to,

:45:30. > :45:46.

:45:46. > :45:51.that. I mean, technically. Does looking at some of these pictures,

:45:51. > :45:54.the colour here that shines through makes the London mattered and --

:45:54. > :45:59.London Marathon with all the fluorescent colours and styles and

:45:59. > :46:03.all of the running shirts they were - it all just looks great and really

:46:03. > :46:11.is a testament. Things have changed so much over the years, and this

:46:11. > :46:14.London Marathon has been at the forefront of all of that. There's

:46:14. > :46:21.barely part of the event, Chris Brasher had to fight the

:46:21. > :46:27.establishment. It is the 40th anniversary this year of the team in

:46:27. > :46:31.the north-east winning that. We have managed to get so far, we

:46:31. > :46:39.have not the football so far, I thought you did well, Sunderland

:46:39. > :46:44.beating Newcastle 3-0, that is the last time we will mention it.

:46:44. > :46:49.They always say get your retaliation in first, don't they? There are

:46:49. > :46:53.people running for various football strips. They tend to go off on the

:46:53. > :47:03.greens start, you saw the blue start getting close to completing getting

:47:03. > :47:04.

:47:04. > :47:14.there people through. Let us get confirmation of that group, Edna

:47:14. > :47:28.

:47:28. > :47:34.Kiplagat, Florence Tipler gap, Joyce of the group there, she is the first

:47:34. > :47:39.that has started to go, not the most experienced, this is her first full

:47:39. > :47:46.London Marathon. She has just left herself about 20 metres with that

:47:46. > :47:51.group. We have already had one incident with Tiki Gelana, let us

:47:51. > :47:57.look at another incident at about 15 kilometres... No, it is the same

:47:57. > :48:04.instrument. Tiki Gelana, to be there, should have been more aware

:48:04. > :48:10.of what was going on. All of the athletes ended up in that leading

:48:10. > :48:18.group being affected to some degree. Cassidy is... Is he looking

:48:18. > :48:22.for a drink? Edna Kiplagat was offering drinks to Tiki Gelana, I

:48:22. > :48:31.think she was all right, she did not take a drink on board, but it is

:48:31. > :48:35.nice that the Ethiopian - Kenyan rivalry was put to one side.

:48:35. > :48:39.I think the camaraderie is coming through a little more. You are

:48:39. > :48:42.sharing a lot with your fellow runners, you know what you have all

:48:42. > :48:50.been through in preparation. The marathon is a little bit different

:48:50. > :48:53.to a sprint race, something may go wrong at the start, you know you

:48:54. > :48:57.have another race the next week. Marathon runners are not like that

:48:57. > :49:01.and the last thing anyone wants to see is a group of falling down and

:49:01. > :49:05.hurting themselves. The only good thing is that it would be the first

:49:05. > :49:10.part of the race, not the second were it would be much harder to get

:49:10. > :49:17.up and get going again, but she looks comfortable.

:49:17. > :49:22.The women are beyond halfway. Things are moving on now, the group is not

:49:22. > :49:28.just running together now, Tiki Gelana is at the back of that group.

:49:28. > :49:33.She made the big break at the Olympic Games. Let us give you a

:49:33. > :49:37.look, using technology, to see exactly where they are. Approaching

:49:37. > :49:43.14 miles. The men a little further back, there they are heading towards

:49:43. > :49:49.Canary Wharf. They will then do that big loop and head back. The men are

:49:49. > :49:53.moving towards the Cutty Sark, just beyond four miles, they have just

:49:53. > :50:00.completed the quickest miles on the course. In there somewhere is Mo

:50:00. > :50:09.Farah. There he is. I am sure he is getting plenty of support out on the

:50:09. > :50:13.route. One or two people have been taking the Mickey out of him a

:50:13. > :50:17.little bit about the fact he is dropping out halfway, but I don't

:50:17. > :50:21.think you can really call it dropping out, it is planned. It is

:50:21. > :50:26.not as though one day he is not going to be capable of running a

:50:26. > :50:33.really, really good marathon. Let's face it, if they do go through in

:50:33. > :50:37.61.45, Mo's best is just outside 60 minutes, he has only run a couple of

:50:37. > :50:41.half marathons, he is going to be pretty tired at the end of that, it

:50:41. > :50:47.is a good pace. It will be impressive to see that.

:50:47. > :50:50.It is great to see Mo Farah, double Olympic champion, it thrills me to

:50:50. > :50:55.see that. I think eventually this young man will win the London

:50:55. > :51:04.Marathon in the next few years. I am sure before then he will win some

:51:04. > :51:08.other big track races. It is wonderful to see a British athlete,

:51:08. > :51:12.having won two Olympic gold medals, back in Britain, enjoying the

:51:12. > :51:16.support of the crowd. He is doing it cleverly, drifting off the back of

:51:16. > :51:23.the group, not amongst them, and I think that is the right way to do

:51:23. > :51:27.I can tell you that the first five dormitories was run in 14.27 in this

:51:27. > :51:34.race. As might the first five kilometres. That is a pretty good

:51:34. > :51:38.time on the track. -- the first five kilometres. That is inside world

:51:38. > :51:44.record pace, obviously very early. This is more than a taster for Mo,

:51:44. > :51:47.he might have his eyes opened to what this is all about. That was my

:51:47. > :51:50.concern, he is coming into this and it is not the same feeling when you

:51:50. > :51:54.know you are going to drop out halfway.

:51:54. > :52:00.You don't have as many nerves or as much at run on.

:52:00. > :52:03.My worry is that Mo would be tired at halfway and would feel like he

:52:03. > :52:07.had worked really hard and it will play around with his mind when he

:52:07. > :52:11.comes to grace the full distance next year. Hopefully that will not

:52:11. > :52:15.be the case and he will get a big lift from the crowd, certainly. He

:52:15. > :52:20.will not have run in anything like this before. The Olympic Stadium

:52:20. > :52:30.last year will come very close, but still, I don't think it can top the

:52:30. > :52:31.

:52:31. > :52:33.streets of London on a day like this. That will help him, that will

:52:33. > :52:36.lift him, and it will prepare them for next year. He will be taking

:52:36. > :52:38.lots of things along this route he can store up for next year when he

:52:38. > :52:41.attacks this properly. I think the important thing for Mo

:52:41. > :52:46.is to enjoy this. You will get fantastic support and he responds to

:52:46. > :52:51.that. He told me about running the 5000 metres, when he walked down the

:52:51. > :52:55.back straight the crowd went crazy. When you are getting nervous and you

:52:55. > :53:00.realise all these people are supporting you, it really does help.

:53:00. > :53:03.I think Mo Farah has worked so hard to get to where he has got to, he

:53:03. > :53:09.has enjoyed the European Championships, World Championship,

:53:09. > :53:16.Olympic games double, and eventually his line is to move up all distances

:53:16. > :53:19.and take on the challenge of the marathon, the champion enjoying

:53:19. > :53:25.himself in this race and I think there are some dramatic happenings

:53:25. > :53:32.in the women's race. We will have a quick look in a

:53:32. > :53:35.second, just a word on the men's pace. The two fastest ever over 25

:53:35. > :53:42.kilometres, that is the quality of the pacemakers, that is why they are

:53:42. > :53:49.going so fast. On the women's race, as Brendan said, not -- reports are

:53:49. > :53:54.not good for Tiki Gelana. There she is, Joyce Kepkirui has first of all

:53:54. > :53:59.got rid of the Kenyan. The Olympic champion is now struggling. Was it

:53:59. > :54:08.to do with that faulty mitral it could not have helped. -- was it to

:54:08. > :54:12.do with that fall? That is not good for her at this

:54:12. > :54:19.stage, that is a good group with good athletes, it has not been a

:54:19. > :54:24.fast pace. She would not be tactically laying off it at all.

:54:24. > :54:29.It is very sad at this point. To go to all of the effort to get the

:54:29. > :54:36.Olympic marathon champion here running in good shape, then sadly to

:54:36. > :54:38.have an organisational fault let it down, you have to feel for both the

:54:38. > :54:41.athlete and the organisation, because the organisation is

:54:41. > :54:46.absolutely fantastic. To have something go wrong like that that

:54:46. > :54:49.may not have been able to be predicted is very disappointing,

:54:49. > :54:55.particularly 40 gig Alanna, who is a great athlete and a very tough

:54:55. > :55:00.athlete. Paula, you would be having to share that, wouldn't you?

:55:00. > :55:04.We don't know it is related to the fall, but we can make a strong

:55:04. > :55:11.guess. I am trying to work out if she is running heavier on the tip on

:55:11. > :55:15.one side because it looked as though she banged her hip. They are going

:55:16. > :55:21.over small speed bumps which will affect her if she has any muscle

:55:21. > :55:25.tightness or a spasm then that side. She certainly needs to get herself

:55:25. > :55:29.back together and decide whether she is going to carry on in this race

:55:29. > :55:36.and close that gap. It has not helped her cause and what

:55:36. > :55:41.may be more relevant is they have just run 15.59 for that stretch, by

:55:41. > :55:47.far the quickest five kilometres stretch of the race. The contrast

:55:47. > :55:50.between running 17.10 and then a 15.59, she is a good enough athlete

:55:50. > :55:55.normally to cope with that. They have been running at a fairly slow

:55:55. > :56:01.pace by her standards. She should have been able to cope with that

:56:01. > :56:04.surge, but you can see that now that is perhaps the best part of 100

:56:04. > :56:08.metres she is behind, falling further.

:56:08. > :56:17.When you look at the group, you have the world champion, Olympic silver

:56:17. > :56:27.medallist, the fastest 10,000 metres runner in the world, that looks like

:56:27. > :56:28.

:56:29. > :56:35.Susan Partridge there. Amy Whitehead is ahead of her. Interestingly, the

:56:35. > :56:39.field down year is splitting up, too. That is a bit concerning. There

:56:39. > :56:43.you have for athletes and their is no way Tiki Gelana, the Olympic

:56:43. > :56:51.champion, was planning on a race like this. She is not going to come

:56:51. > :56:54.back and catch them. Just a word on the two British

:56:54. > :56:58.women, Susan Partridge went through in 73 minutes and 50 seconds, Amy

:56:58. > :57:04.Whitehead about a minute behind her, but the two are slowing down from

:57:04. > :57:08.the pace set earlier on. Both of them are still on schedule to run

:57:08. > :57:13.under 2.30, but they are slowing down.

:57:13. > :57:17.Sorry, that was not Amy Whitehead, she is further down, as you said,

:57:17. > :57:22.about a minute behind. Here they are now at the start, they

:57:22. > :57:29.have been going for about 25 minutes, within half an hour the

:57:29. > :57:35.whole field will be on its way. Running next to that man with the

:57:35. > :57:40.cooker you would want to take it. Let me check my list of official

:57:40. > :57:45.world records, there may be one for bouncing a ball and there is one for

:57:45. > :57:47.a dodgy haircut, as well. Bouncing a ball in a yellow shirt, there is

:57:47. > :57:56.world-record potential for that, I think.

:57:56. > :57:59.It is not even a basketball. You are supposed to double football. -- to

:57:59. > :58:04.dribble of football. There is a woman league one sort of

:58:04. > :58:11.dribbling you do these days and it is not -- there is only one sort of

:58:11. > :58:16.dribbling you do these days and it isn't with the ball. Taking their

:58:16. > :58:24.time, as David says, start slowly and get slower. If he is watching,

:58:24. > :58:29.our best wishes to you. The last of this year's London Marathon runners

:58:29. > :58:33.about to cross the start line. He will be enjoying this thing, he

:58:33. > :58:39.was the man who captured the spirit of the first London Marathon, right

:58:39. > :58:43.from the beginning, he captured it on the first day, the hand of

:58:43. > :58:47.friendship with his Norwegian competitor crossing the line. That

:58:47. > :58:57.was the spirit of the London Marathon on its first running. That

:58:57. > :59:09.

:59:09. > :59:19.We will keep an eye on the ten kilometres time, in the women's race

:59:19. > :59:19.

:59:19. > :59:29.it is hotting up. Meselech Melkamu is the latest to drop off. Edna

:59:29. > :59:33.Kiplagat won the title debut two years ago. Priscah Jeptoo felt as

:59:33. > :59:39.though she should have won last year. Mary Keitany, her team-mate,

:59:39. > :59:46.was the favourite going into the Olympics, but it was Tiki Gelana who

:59:46. > :59:51.took the title. I was watching Mary Keitany, she did not cover the move

:59:51. > :59:59.of Tiki Gelana well. She is running a good race today, Priscah Jeptoo in

:59:59. > :00:06.great shape. Florence Kibler Gatt, also looking pretty comfortable, but

:00:06. > :00:13.this surge, this constant pressure that is being applied.

:00:13. > :00:23.For me in the Olympic/dear, I felt that Priscah Jeptoo was the third

:00:23. > :00:23.

:00:23. > :00:27.swing Kenyan, put in there to do the work for Kiplagat and Tiki Gelana.

:00:27. > :00:35.She could have done better had she ran her own race. She will have come

:00:35. > :00:40.today ready to run her own race. All three of them looking comfortable.

:00:40. > :00:44.Kiplagat is dropping back, the two young Kiplagat girls, no relation

:00:44. > :00:49.between them but they do train together, they will be used to

:00:49. > :00:53.running as a team. The other two do give Priscah Jeptoo a wider berth

:00:53. > :00:56.because of the flick out she has with her legs, which can be

:00:56. > :00:58.dangerous and you want to make sure you stay clear of that and we don't

:00:58. > :01:03.see any more falls in this race today.

:01:03. > :01:08.This race is not going to plan. The plan -- plan was to run fast at the

:01:08. > :01:12.beginning. We can see the men coming through the Cutty Sark. The men are

:01:12. > :01:17.responding, there is a big group layer, the crowds are going crazy

:01:17. > :01:20.here. The crowd is as big as I have ever seen it before at the Cutty

:01:20. > :01:30.Sark. This is wonderful to see. There they are through that first

:01:30. > :01:36.

:01:37. > :01:46.point. Mo Farah at the back of that sensible, Mo. Go on the outside,

:01:47. > :01:47.

:01:47. > :01:54.let them see you. He -- the London Marathon in all its glory hair.

:01:54. > :01:59.just looking at this group. I can't see Patrick Makau in that group.

:01:59. > :02:08.on the clock, I have got him about 40 seconds back. Unless that is him

:02:08. > :02:14.back down the road. I don't think he is in that group. It happened to

:02:14. > :02:20.him last year. He broke the world were Col, he came to London 22 --

:02:20. > :02:26.the world record, he came to London and was not able to compete. The

:02:26. > :02:34.Kenyans had a pretty tough job in trying to pick a team. In the end,

:02:34. > :02:39.it was Stephen Kiprotich of Uganda who won the gold medal. Makau could

:02:39. > :02:43.be the first casualty of the pace. That is surprising. There were no

:02:43. > :02:49.reports of any injuries. He said himself that he was fit and ready

:02:49. > :02:53.to run. It is a surprise. We were expecting a lot from him. We are

:02:53. > :03:01.witnessing a bit of history here. At the back of the grid, you have

:03:01. > :03:04.got the cream of world distance running. -- the group. You have got

:03:04. > :03:13.Kiprotich and Mo Farah running together. It is a side we have

:03:13. > :03:20.never seen before. Those two, between them, won the gold medals

:03:20. > :03:30.at the Olympics. Mo Farah there in the black vest. Behind him, Stephen

:03:30. > :03:34.

:03:34. > :03:44.Kiprotich. Can the Olympic champion make this a glorious return to

:03:44. > :04:05.

:04:05. > :04:10.women's race. The Olympic silver medallist and the Berlin Marathon

:04:10. > :04:20.winner. The second part is going to be faster than that. You can tell

:04:20. > :04:23.

:04:23. > :04:30.even by the cadence. Maybe Kiplagat is not even able to cope with that

:04:30. > :04:34.pace. Susan Partridge is sticking to her task well. This is a loan

:04:34. > :04:44.race for her now. The gaps in the women's race have got bigger and

:04:44. > :04:54.bigger. She has got to work hard now. She wants to run inside to

:04:54. > :04:57.

:04:57. > :05:02.0.30. -- 2.30. She has to maintain pace into the last mile. She has to

:05:02. > :05:08.hope the early, quick miles don't make her pay later on. Approaching

:05:08. > :05:14.17 miles. There are big gaps. That is the risk of running in the elite

:05:14. > :05:23.field. This is what you face. Absolutely. But when your eye in

:05:23. > :05:28.the front, you face it as well! -- you are in front. She will know the

:05:28. > :05:33.pace she is training to run at. She will be retreating into her own

:05:33. > :05:39.world and trying to stay at the pace. She will be doing or she can

:05:39. > :05:49.to remain focused and keep her brain away from the pain and how

:05:49. > :05:52.

:05:52. > :05:59.far she has to go. That was Gelana that we just went past. She has

:05:59. > :06:02.been passed by the group of three, who are the second group. She looks

:06:02. > :06:06.as though she is going to keep running. She is not in a huge

:06:06. > :06:16.amount of pain but she is not getting the turnover she was hoping

:06:16. > :06:17.

:06:17. > :06:21.for. The gap was covered by the bike very quickly. At the front,

:06:21. > :06:30.they are trying to forge further ahead. It is not looking so good

:06:30. > :06:34.for Florence Kiplagat. The gap is building. She are starting to look

:06:34. > :06:42.tired. The front two are looking comfortable, the pair of them

:06:42. > :06:48.working well. Don't be put off by Jeptoo's action there. That is how

:06:48. > :06:54.she runs when she is fine as well as when she is tired. 18 miles

:06:54. > :07:00.being approach. The pace is getting better. It is nothing like the

:07:00. > :07:06.men's race. They are well inside the world record race. Maybe it is

:07:06. > :07:13.why Makau has been a casualty. These two, the world champion and

:07:13. > :07:20.the Olympic silver medallist, they are not from the same training camp.

:07:20. > :07:25.Jeptoo is trained by the young Italian coach based in Kenya. One

:07:25. > :07:35.or two going in the men's race as well. They were saying that Jeptoo

:07:35. > :07:35.

:07:35. > :07:39.is going well. Her training partner one D -- came first in the Boston

:07:39. > :07:49.Marathon last week. That is Rita Jeptoo, not a relation. What a

:07:49. > :07:52.

:07:52. > :07:57.story that would be if they could win the Boston and London Marathon.

:07:57. > :08:02.There's the world record holder, Patrick Makau of Kenya. He came

:08:02. > :08:06.here last year as the favourite. He dropped out. Then he was not

:08:06. > :08:10.selected for the Olympics. Here he is today, not running as well as we

:08:10. > :08:14.expected him to. He is not able to stay with the group. The group are

:08:14. > :08:20.doing extremely quickly. Some athletes will fall off the back of

:08:20. > :08:26.that group. Here is the world record-holder, Patrick Makau. He

:08:26. > :08:31.did a fantastic race in Berlin when he broke the record. Here, today,

:08:31. > :08:37.he is not going to enjoy London. He has not enjoyed London. He has

:08:37. > :08:47.never run really well. He did not do well last year. He was third in

:08:47. > :08:48.

:08:48. > :08:55.2011. It is not a happy hunting ground for this man. Just by

:08:55. > :09:03.contrast, he went through 10 kilometres in about 2.5 pace, which

:09:03. > :09:07.is way off the lead. But you never know. I was listening to him

:09:07. > :09:12.earlier in the week, he sounded confident, said his preparations

:09:12. > :09:16.were going well. He is not the most gregarious athlete talking to the

:09:16. > :09:22.media, Patrick Makau, but nonetheless I am sure this is not

:09:22. > :09:29.the game plan he wanted. We have got confirmation that he was on the

:09:29. > :09:34.start-line, haven't we? It seems that he is running his own race. He

:09:34. > :09:38.has help from one of the pacemakers running alongside him. I don't know

:09:38. > :09:43.if he is supposed to be there but he is helping him at this stage.

:09:43. > :09:51.Great that he is getting that assistance, too. That will help him.

:09:51. > :09:58.Let's look at the gap. There Lido, down the road. -- there we go.

:09:58. > :10:02.Crowds on both sides of the race. This is the fun they came to see.

:10:02. > :10:08.This road will be full in a few minutes. That is a big gap from

:10:08. > :10:12.Patrick Makau. It just shows you how fast they are going. If he is

:10:13. > :10:22.running 2.5 pace, it shows you what is happening up ahead. We are not

:10:23. > :10:25.

:10:25. > :10:30.at the lead group yet. You can just see, in the distance there, we pass

:10:30. > :10:33.an Ethiopian. Now here we are, approaching the lead group. The

:10:33. > :10:41.pacemakers are doing a good job. The crowds are enormous, they

:10:41. > :10:48.really are. Look at that. What a place to be. London's response to

:10:48. > :10:53.this marathon has been fantastic today. There's the group. In there,

:10:54. > :11:01.there's a lot of talent. Perhaps they all came out to watch Mo Farah.

:11:01. > :11:07.Well, this is a real baptism for Mona -- for Mo. This is the number

:11:07. > :11:15.of. The crowds may not be aware of what they are seeing. -- this is

:11:15. > :11:21.phenomenal. They are seeing a bunch of men setting up at a pace which,

:11:21. > :11:27.well, surely they can't all maintain it. Who will keep it up?

:11:27. > :11:33.These two pacemakers are of such quality, they could run to within

:11:33. > :11:41.four or five miles of the finish at this pace. They are told that they

:11:41. > :11:51.cannot keep going, but that day could drag people along on world-

:11:51. > :11:54.

:11:54. > :12:00.record pace. Some of the are working way beyond themselves. The

:12:00. > :12:05.Kenyan who was not selected last year, he was disappointed. Haile

:12:05. > :12:09.Gebrselassie made representations on his behalf. He said he was the

:12:09. > :12:15.best marathon runner in Ethiopia, he should be on the team. He was

:12:15. > :12:20.not in the team. And you know what happened in the Olympics? All three

:12:20. > :12:24.Olympians -- Ethiopians failed to finish. There was an outrage.

:12:24. > :12:30.Whatever happens in distance running, the Ethiopians want to be

:12:30. > :12:35.featured in the marathon. Here he is, showing that he is still good

:12:35. > :12:39.enough to run at world-record pace. But there are too many of them

:12:39. > :12:44.running at world record pace. The crowd response is enormous. Mo

:12:44. > :12:48.Farah is hearing it. He is being cheered on every stage. Look how

:12:48. > :12:51.deep the crowds are. They have never seen anything like this. This

:12:51. > :12:56.is like London's response to what happened in Boston last week. The

:12:56. > :13:01.response is, you can't stop us doing what we want to do. This is

:13:01. > :13:06.part of the fabric of London. This is how we want to live our lives.

:13:06. > :13:10.We want to organise big events. We want people to run in them. We

:13:10. > :13:15.can't let terrorists stop them. Look what has happened today. There

:13:15. > :13:22.is your answer. The Olympics and Paralympics obviously brought

:13:22. > :13:29.people out onto the streets. Both marathons well-supported. The --

:13:29. > :13:33.were well supported. The crowds, we said we would never see it again.

:13:33. > :13:39.Maybe we are in terms of the crowds on the streets. The Olympic

:13:39. > :13:45.marathon was a shorter lap. A lot of people were squeezed into the

:13:45. > :13:49.small area. Today, it is across the whole 26 miles. Some of these areas,

:13:49. > :13:57.some of the athletes used to say that there are some quite sections.

:13:57. > :14:03.Not today. People are everywhere. My 20 quid on Mo Farah to win this

:14:03. > :14:12.eventually, my 20 quid says there are more people here today than

:14:12. > :14:16.were watching the Olympic marathon. The sad news is that the Olympic

:14:16. > :14:21.champion, Tiki Gelana, she is tying her lace there but she does not

:14:21. > :14:28.look very good. She does not look to be moving very well. It is nice

:14:28. > :14:34.that she wants to keep going. This is not the Olympic champion that we

:14:34. > :14:37.know. This is not the Tiki Gelana that we know. Since those Olympics,

:14:37. > :14:43.sadly for her, the New York Marathon, she planned to run it and

:14:43. > :14:50.it was cancelled. She suffered a really heavy faller here in London

:14:50. > :14:56.and has left the way open for her compatriots. So, at the front,

:14:56. > :15:06.Jeptoo and Kiplagat are locked together. Locked together and

:15:06. > :15:06.

:15:06. > :15:57.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 51 seconds

:15:57. > :16:07.20, that's when the race really starts. Will they be able to

:16:07. > :16:09.

:16:09. > :16:19.maintain that all will they have to slow down? Edna Kiplagat is a very

:16:19. > :16:29.thoughtful athletes. She didn't panic when she fell. Maybe she will

:16:29. > :16:31.

:16:31. > :16:35.have to be patient here. The Olympic silver medallist, Priscah Jeptoo, is

:16:35. > :16:40.testing the world champion. The times are getting fast. Damage has

:16:40. > :16:46.been done in the last couple of miles, but this is a crucial part of

:16:46. > :16:52.the race for Edna Kiplagat. It is really tight now. She was running

:16:52. > :16:57.neck and neck with Priscah Jeptoo. They are above the 20 mile point.

:16:57. > :17:07.This will be crucial to them. both look as though they are working

:17:07. > :17:14.harder here. Me, add shows more strain it was four or five miles

:17:14. > :17:22.ago. But they appear to be working together. Maybe they are sharing a

:17:22. > :17:29.little bit of the workers well. You can see how much faster they have

:17:29. > :17:35.been by how quickly that gap is growing. We need to watch the

:17:35. > :17:45.leading group behind them, the chase group, to see whether they can catch

:17:45. > :17:49.

:17:49. > :17:54.Edna Kiplagat. Just making a test, as Edna Kiplagat, the world

:17:54. > :18:02.champion, responding again. But this is going to be a really great race

:18:02. > :18:08.to the finish. But Priscah Jeptoo is record is amazing. She was second in

:18:08. > :18:16.the world Championships, so she is a big time operator. That tells you

:18:16. > :18:20.there is a big group there and they are running faster. The world record

:18:20. > :18:30.there as well, set in Berlin by the world record holder who is not in

:18:30. > :18:44.

:18:44. > :18:51.that group. He will have to watch heading towards the finish now. And

:18:51. > :18:58.David Weir is still there. And Jenny Arce, his coach, and David Weir had

:18:58. > :19:05.plotted a scheme to get victory number seven. He is almost in the

:19:05. > :19:11.perfect place, but that is becoming very tactical race. It has. You can

:19:11. > :19:14.tell, in the last kilometre, they have really started slowing down the

:19:14. > :19:24.pace to get the right position. And Dave Weir is in a perfect place

:19:24. > :19:27.

:19:27. > :19:33.right now. Just heading up to Birdcage Walk. And my goodness!

:19:33. > :19:37.Isn't David we're going to get a huge round of applause? He has got

:19:37. > :19:47.the Boston Marathon winner alongside him. Ernst Van Dyke, nine times the

:19:47. > :19:48.

:19:48. > :19:57.Boston winner, wearing the green and gold of South Africa. David Weir, in

:19:57. > :20:07.pole position at the moment. Kurt Fearnley from Australia is

:20:07. > :20:09.

:20:09. > :20:13.sitting right behind him as well. He wants to make sure... The danger is,

:20:13. > :20:20.you haven't got enough space to go round. And the final turn is so

:20:20. > :20:28.crucial. When the road opens up, you have less chance of being able to

:20:28. > :20:33.control the race. A consolation as well for Josh Cassidy who had that

:20:33. > :20:40.crashed back at the feeding stage. Some of the wheelchairs came

:20:40. > :20:47.together with some of the leading women athletes. But David Weir,

:20:47. > :20:55.ready to strike, ready to pounce, together victory number seven. Two

:20:55. > :21:00.turns and then it is 200 metres flat out towards the finish. Kurt

:21:00. > :21:04.Fearnley in third place. He has been in this position many times before.

:21:04. > :21:14.And luckily the Great Britain fans, he has never managed to get past

:21:14. > :21:15.

:21:15. > :21:24.David Weir in this position. David Weir looking across that Marcel Hug.

:21:24. > :21:28.Ernst van Dyke is coming to come round from the outside. Kurt

:21:28. > :21:34.Fearnley is coming through really quickly. Kurt Fearnley on the

:21:34. > :21:44.inside. David Weir has no response. Marcel Hug in second place. The

:21:44. > :21:44.

:21:44. > :21:50.noise was absolutely deafening. Kurt Fearnley WinZip by a whisker! David

:21:50. > :21:57.Weir finishes in faith. He had nothing left to give over the last

:21:57. > :22:02.100 metres. That was superb timing by Kurt Fearnley. He didn't panic.

:22:02. > :22:05.While everyone was watching Dave, that's when he went. It is a

:22:05. > :22:15.paraphrase the Dave today, but that is probably Curt Fearnley's best

:22:15. > :22:21.race of his career. There will certainly be a story to be told

:22:21. > :22:30.about that one. But I was a wonderful victory for Kurt Fearnley.

:22:30. > :22:35.He is a class athlete. He came here as an underdog. But that will go

:22:35. > :22:45.down as a superb victory for Kurt Fearnley. And David Weir finished in

:22:45. > :22:53.

:22:53. > :23:03.race, a significant break now by Priscah Jeptoo, the Olympic silver

:23:03. > :23:06.

:23:06. > :23:11.medallist. It was then just her team-mates. Edna Kiplagat herself

:23:11. > :23:19.not able to stay with the force applied by Priscah Jeptoo. Priscah

:23:19. > :23:27.Jeptoo just kept pushing. Every mile of the last six miles has been

:23:27. > :23:33.riding really fast pace. No let up. Edna Kiplagat, a world champion from

:23:33. > :23:38.2011, doing her best and fighting. Not a big surge but constant

:23:38. > :23:45.pressure here. And that one metre turned into two, then three, and

:23:45. > :23:51.then gradually, it suddenly stretched. And that's what happens.

:23:51. > :23:58.They keep -- they talk about the elastic band that keeps you

:23:58. > :24:01.attached, and then when it goes, five metres turns into 60 metres.

:24:02. > :24:11.And that looks like Priscah Jeptoo just has to keep going at this

:24:12. > :24:15.

:24:15. > :24:21.pace. She has run well in her last three races. There she is now, the

:24:21. > :24:31.miles are getting quick. The second half of the race will be significant

:24:31. > :24:31.

:24:31. > :24:37.faster than the first. And that's the way marathons evolve. Very

:24:37. > :24:44.difficult to break away in the early stages. Then the race got serious.

:24:44. > :24:51.Then the split times became phenomenal. Terrific performance.

:24:51. > :25:01.And here's Priscah Jeptoo now. Can she keep going? The crowds are

:25:01. > :25:10.

:25:10. > :25:18.responding to her as they respond to Whitehead. Enjoying it every step of

:25:18. > :25:28.the way. He really is some athlete. It's not so long ago that Mr muscle

:25:28. > :25:29.

:25:29. > :25:37.tear became Paralympic 200 metres champion. He's got another 26 miles

:25:37. > :25:47.to go! But on his own here. He is enjoying the atmosphere. And this is

:25:47. > :25:54.

:25:54. > :26:01.a phenomenal Dave everybody. -- day for everybody. You can see Tower

:26:01. > :26:07.Bridge in the distance, and approaching that, the halfway mark.

:26:07. > :26:17.That is the point at which Mo Farah will stop. These men are going at a

:26:17. > :26:22.

:26:22. > :26:30.good pace. There is a bit of an issue. The man, the fastest in the

:26:30. > :26:40.world, has pulled out with an injury in the first two or three miles.

:26:40. > :26:44.

:26:44. > :26:52.That is a less -- less of a pacemaking pedigree. Mo Farah just

:26:52. > :26:58.stepped out of the crowd. He wants to receive a view of the plaudits.

:26:58. > :27:08.He knows he is into the last mile or so. He does, but he will find it

:27:08. > :27:15.

:27:15. > :27:24.hard to stop. I mean, look at this crowd! That's amazing. He will find

:27:24. > :27:34.it hard to step aside. That has all been thought about. At least he is

:27:34. > :27:38.not waving! I actually think he has been very respectful. That was one

:27:38. > :27:45.of the points raised, that he might take focus away from the runners,

:27:45. > :27:49.but he hasn't done that at all. at these crowds, Brendan. A

:27:49. > :27:59.wonderful site. Mo Farah the focus of their attention, but for all

:27:59. > :28:01.

:28:01. > :28:11.these athletes, this is the best marathon in the world. Look at those

:28:11. > :28:14.

:28:14. > :28:20.crowds! This is a great advantage point and a great place to watch.

:28:20. > :28:25.There is the Tower hotel in the background, where Mo Farah will

:28:25. > :28:31.spend a leisurely afternoon. He's getting a great respond. He would

:28:31. > :28:41.find it more difficult to keep going the dropout! There they are. They

:28:41. > :28:46.

:28:46. > :28:52.are racing now. And there's Mo Farah, on his own. A chance to see

:28:52. > :28:58.our double Olympic champion. We have never had an Olympic distance

:28:58. > :29:08.champion. And then he is, enjoying it. And so he should! When you are

:29:08. > :29:09.

:29:09. > :29:16.double Olympic champion, you can do whatever you like. This is a

:29:16. > :29:20.marvellous response by the people of London. A marathon held in troubled

:29:20. > :29:28.times after what happened in Boston last week, but here it is today,

:29:28. > :29:32.London in all its glory. And what a wonderful site Tower Bridge is. A

:29:32. > :29:42.beautiful backdrop. It has never looked better on London marathon

:29:42. > :29:42.

:29:42. > :29:52.day. That lead group are forcing the pace. Mo Farah is part of that. I

:29:52. > :30:02.can just see another Olympic champion, Stephen Kipper titch,

:30:02. > :30:03.

:30:03. > :30:10.giving up as well. -- Stephen Kiprotich. But today, it is about

:30:10. > :30:20.slugging it out with the best in the world. Just one or two starting to

:30:20. > :30:25.

:30:25. > :30:30.struggle with this pace that has been set through the first half.

:30:30. > :30:38.There is Mo, dropped out just before halfway. He saw the gap in the fence

:30:38. > :30:42.there. We will just give Mo a few seconds

:30:42. > :30:48.to catch his breath. It will be interesting to hear his thoughts on

:30:48. > :30:53.what the pace has been like. If you look at that clock, it will be a

:30:53. > :30:59.very fast first half marathon. The man who has completed just less than

:30:59. > :31:05.a half marathon is now chatting with Phil.

:31:05. > :31:08.Well, Mo, London lad, you have won the many marathon before, what was

:31:08. > :31:12.it like to be part of the main event?

:31:12. > :31:16.Incredible, the mode of support, people coming from everywhere

:31:16. > :31:21.achieving from the hallway. You expected people to come out and

:31:21. > :31:25.support you after London 2012, was it bigger than you expected?

:31:25. > :31:30.Yeah, I did not expect that many people to come out today, they were

:31:30. > :31:34.cheering from the houses, looking out on the route, the atmosphere is

:31:34. > :31:40.can encrypt -- incredible. You can hear the supporters still

:31:40. > :31:45.cheering you, tell me about what you gained from the race today?

:31:45. > :31:48.The pace is not a problem, the place looks good, but the biggest

:31:48. > :31:57.challenge is picking up the drinks, making sure you pick up the right

:31:57. > :32:02.drink, I need a mess of it at the ten kilometre.

:32:02. > :32:05.So you wanted to gain experience of the media, the race itself, was it

:32:05. > :32:10.worth while? I have learned the biggest lesson of

:32:10. > :32:14.my life, really. If I had made a mess of it next year, I would not

:32:14. > :32:18.have been able to deal with that. It is good practice, waking up early,

:32:18. > :32:27.getting on the bus and eating breakfast, dealing with everything,

:32:27. > :32:34.I have learnt a lot, for sure. Finally, just a quick word for

:32:34. > :32:39.anyone tuning in now, asking why you have dropped out, just explain.

:32:39. > :32:42.My aim was just to learn a lot, next year I am going to do the full

:32:42. > :32:47.marathon, this year I am concentrating on the ten key, five

:32:47. > :32:51.K, and it is hard to do track and get ready for a marathon.

:32:51. > :32:56.Thank you for talking to is Mo, we will speak to you later.

:32:56. > :33:03.I want to say happy birthday to my father-in-law, Bob, have a good day,

:33:03. > :33:09.Bob, have a good one. Thanks, Mo.

:33:10. > :33:13.Well, the easy bit is to sort the drinks out, you can learn that. The

:33:13. > :33:19.hard bit is maintaining that pace, because they have been running very

:33:19. > :33:28.fast. They are slowing a little bit, it was crazy earlier on. We

:33:28. > :33:31.have not really started the racing part of it yet. Mo has dropped out,

:33:31. > :33:41.Stephen Kiprotich, the Olympic champion, still in there but he is

:33:41. > :33:45.struggling. For him, his return to London not such a happy one, but

:33:45. > :33:50.nobody was really tipping Stephen Kiprotich to win today, because the

:33:50. > :33:59.gold medal was about doing the right race on the day. That was what he

:33:59. > :34:05.did, and it was the greatest race in his life. Both of our Olympic

:34:05. > :34:09.champions struggling today. There is Tiki Gelana, really jogging now.

:34:09. > :34:14.Someone should mention to her, she is getting very close to the event

:34:14. > :34:18.hotel at about 21 miles, and she might as well just stop. It is nice

:34:18. > :34:23.she is continuing to jog around. She is obviously struggling.

:34:23. > :34:26.My worry would be that by continuing she would be hurting yourself and

:34:26. > :34:36.doing further damage. I wonder if she knows the procedure for dropping

:34:36. > :34:42.

:34:42. > :34:46.out. She is able to stop near the Just two women contesting first

:34:46. > :34:50.place in this women's wheelchair marathon. The defending champion,

:34:50. > :34:58.Shelly Woods, is about two minutes behind these two. It looks as though

:34:58. > :35:04.it is going to be an American 1-2. She has been in amazing shape this

:35:04. > :35:08.year. Tatiana has set the pace the hallway with her team-mate from the

:35:08. > :35:15.University of Illinois, Amanda McGrory, just behind. They made a

:35:15. > :35:21.decisive break about halfway, and it will beat this -- interesting to see

:35:21. > :35:27.if Amanda McGrory springs against Tatyana MacFadden, at the moment I

:35:27. > :35:37.think the best she can hope for is fourth position.

:35:37. > :35:44.

:35:44. > :35:47.Tatyana MacFadden, heads down, working those arms. She did so well

:35:47. > :35:53.in London 2012, she got three gold medals.

:35:53. > :35:59.Tatyana MacFadden is looking quite tired, they are probably going at 70

:35:59. > :36:02.mph, Amanda McGrory is trying to get back to her, this is an amazing win

:36:02. > :36:07.by Tatyana MacFadden after doing Boston at the beginning of the week.

:36:07. > :36:11.It looks as if the record is going to be blown out of the water here.

:36:11. > :36:20.Tatyana MacFadden going through just outside 1: 46. Amanda McGrory in

:36:20. > :36:24.second. That officially is a new course record. The course record set

:36:24. > :36:31.back in 2011 when Amanda McGrory became the champion, Shelly Woods in

:36:31. > :36:41.second place. That was a very proficient bit of trading from both

:36:41. > :36:56.

:36:56. > :37:01.Priscah Jeptoo, a significant lead now. She can sense she just has to

:37:01. > :37:04.hold this together along the embankment. She will be able to

:37:04. > :37:09.think about winning this race. You cannot get ahead of yourself too

:37:09. > :37:14.much. As we head through the bridges along the embankment we will get

:37:14. > :37:20.picture breakup. We will just reflect on the Olympic champion.

:37:20. > :37:25.Just ahead of her, Susan Partridge has just passed Tiki Gelana. She is

:37:25. > :37:35.very close to the event hotel, she is jogging now and it is not a nice

:37:35. > :37:37.

:37:37. > :37:43.thing to see, an athlete of her the way, but it has not been a good

:37:43. > :37:53.day for her. That is player 12 micro from South Africa who has just gone

:37:53. > :37:54.

:37:54. > :37:59.through the picture. -- player 12 through Saint Catherine 's Dock,

:37:59. > :38:03.through the cobbles, but they don't have to do that now.

:38:03. > :38:09.Instead of that you come along a double section where the mass races

:38:09. > :38:14.and the men's races will be coming in one direction, the women going in

:38:14. > :38:19.another, so the crowd are twice as loud, so it is a start contrast to

:38:19. > :38:23.it being very loud to the quiet of the tunnel, then you come out into

:38:23. > :38:31.the direct sunlight, knowing you who only have three or four miles to go

:38:31. > :38:38.and time to run the closing stages. She really has got quicker and

:38:38. > :38:47.quicker, she ran a 66 minute half marathon. She was beaten on that

:38:47. > :38:52.day, that runner got injured. Once you are running under 67 minutes you

:38:52. > :38:56.know you have to be in good shape to run a marathon. It does not tell you

:38:57. > :39:01.everything, but it tells you a lot. It tells you an awful lot.

:39:01. > :39:04.She got to the halfway point, she relaxed and was comfortable and

:39:04. > :39:10.started applying the pressure, now the gap has opened and the crowd

:39:10. > :39:16.have been cheering her on. It has been a great day so far for the

:39:16. > :39:20.London Marathon. Being less of a great day for Olympic champions.

:39:20. > :39:26.Shirley Reilly, the Olympic women's Paralympic champion, David Weir,

:39:26. > :39:32.Tiki Gelana, and Stephen Kiprotich are not all having great days. We

:39:32. > :39:37.just saw the Olympic -- double Olympic champion has probably had

:39:37. > :39:40.better days. Mo Farah has probably learned a lot from today, he will be

:39:40. > :39:47.in the Hotel watching the excitement of the last stages of the marathon

:39:47. > :39:50.on folder. This is a very, very good athlete. Olympic silver medallist,

:39:50. > :39:55.third in this race last year, second in the world championships a couple

:39:55. > :40:01.of years ago, now here looking as though she is going to keep going to

:40:01. > :40:04.win the London Marathon. Coming along Embankment, the crowds and the

:40:05. > :40:10.charity cheering points all along the way. She will be enjoying this.

:40:10. > :40:16.She needs this at this point in the race. The weather has been great. It

:40:16. > :40:26.is cool, not too warm at all, clear skies, no wind at all, great

:40:26. > :40:30.marathon running conditions. This is From one great runner to a great

:40:30. > :40:37.Paralympic athlete, Shelly Woods being hunted down in the home

:40:37. > :40:43.straight. That is Shirley Reilly from the USA.

:40:43. > :40:46.It has been a really tough race for Shelly Woods this year. She has not

:40:46. > :40:51.late in the best form of her life, but I think she will be pleased to

:40:51. > :40:55.get over. It is a pretty good time for her.

:40:55. > :41:02.Just outside of the medals for Shelly Woods, beaten on the line by

:41:02. > :41:12.the Paralympic marathon champion. Apologies, that was Christy dolls

:41:12. > :41:21.

:41:21. > :41:25.The Americans have had a fine day here today. The last two times

:41:25. > :41:28.Shelly Woods has been on the streets of London, of course, she got a

:41:28. > :41:34.silver medal in the Paralympic marathon and won the London Marathon

:41:34. > :41:40.last year. She will consider this to be a failure, only fourth place, in

:41:41. > :41:50.a race she hoped to dominate. But conditions today favoured the faster

:41:51. > :41:52.

:41:52. > :41:55.to Americans by far. -- the faster two Americans.

:41:55. > :42:02.Some interesting developments in the men's group. Stanley Biwott and

:42:02. > :42:08.Emmanuel Mutai pushing the pace on here, and the pacemakers have gone.

:42:08. > :42:18.We have been left with the main pace makers, make Keegan, who is very

:42:18. > :42:19.

:42:19. > :42:24.experienced. He is trying to keep things going. -- Mike Keegan.

:42:24. > :42:28.Stanley Biwott, very expire you -- experienced, he won in Paris last

:42:28. > :42:35.year. The others are still close by, Geoffrey Mutai could be very strong

:42:35. > :42:40.in the last six miles. Tsegaye Kebede is still there, and Wilson

:42:40. > :42:44.Kipsang, who won last year. Efforts to break that grew up, they are

:42:44. > :42:49.trying, so far they are all still there. -- efforts to break that

:42:49. > :42:54.group up. A few people looked like they are

:42:54. > :43:01.working hard in that. Emmanuel Mutai looks like he is working quite

:43:01. > :43:05.hard. He looks as though he wants this pace to keep moving on. He

:43:05. > :43:09.might be concerned about those in that group. Still quite a large

:43:09. > :43:14.group, given that faster running. They are running very close to world

:43:14. > :43:20.pace here. It was a bit of a scramble there at

:43:20. > :43:24.that feed station. They have all managed to get their drinks. They

:43:24. > :43:28.ran the first half at world-record pace, they are continuing to do

:43:28. > :43:32.that, the pacemaker is working hard keeping them going, but Geoffrey

:43:32. > :43:37.Mutai wants to move it along. This is the dilemma - do you run for pace

:43:37. > :43:43.or do you run in the competition? This is a serious competition, it

:43:43. > :43:46.will be a very competitive race. There is the Olympic champion,

:43:46. > :43:53.Stephen Kiprotich, who has not enjoyed it today. If you think about

:43:53. > :44:02.it, he won the Olympic Games in London, fantastic performance, only

:44:02. > :44:08.his second Ugandan athlete to win an Olympic title. Stephen Kiprotich, on

:44:08. > :44:18.that day it was warm in August, today is much more conducive to

:44:18. > :44:22.dense -- distanced running. His best time of 2: 07 point 20. He has not

:44:22. > :44:24.shown in the past he has a fast manner of -- marathon runner, but he

:44:25. > :44:31.has showed he is a competitive marathon runner in the summer when

:44:31. > :44:36.it is hot, when they don't run for fast times. For fast times we have

:44:36. > :44:39.the spring and autumn marathons, not in the championships. He was good

:44:39. > :44:46.enough in the championships, but he is not quick enough, not fast

:44:46. > :44:51.enough. He has been sorely tested. Emmanuel Mutai, forcing the pace.

:44:51. > :44:55.There is Wilson Kipsang in there, too, a big group still, and I wonder

:44:55. > :45:05.what will happen in the next few miles. I am sure the pace cannot be

:45:05. > :45:16.

:45:16. > :45:23.this incessant all the way. Bike to the women's race, she has

:45:23. > :45:26.run impressive splits, she did that 15.0 16.09 for the three following

:45:26. > :45:34.five kilometres sections. She is about to collate -- complete

:45:34. > :45:38.another one here. I think she is inside one mile to go, there is a

:45:38. > :45:44.red telephone box a couple of metres bike down the road they are! That is

:45:44. > :45:47.one mile to go, so she is now in front of Big Ben and that is 1200

:45:47. > :45:52.metres to go. How many telephone boxes are there

:45:52. > :45:56.on the route, Paula? I don't know, but I know that one,

:45:56. > :46:00.there is usually a man sitting cross-legged on top of it.

:46:00. > :46:10.I know that you used to count the lamp posts to keep you focused.

:46:10. > :46:13.

:46:13. > :46:20.Focus is very much what she has managed to do today. She must know

:46:20. > :46:23.now that she is on for perhaps the biggest win of her career. She has

:46:23. > :46:30.one big-city marathons, nearly won the Olympic Games here last year,

:46:30. > :46:40.and heading for a win in the 2013 London Marathon. Edna Kiplagat has

:46:40. > :46:43.

:46:43. > :46:47.tried hard but not as -- was not able to stay with her. I am trying

:46:47. > :46:56.to see if we can get any more information about who is in third

:46:56. > :47:00.place. As we watch Priscah Jeptoo, runner-up in the Olympic Games,

:47:00. > :47:04.runner up in the world Championships, third place in the

:47:04. > :47:12.London Marathon last year, as she heads down towards the welcome sight

:47:12. > :47:22.of Buckingham Palace and The Mall, and the crowds around Saint James's

:47:22. > :47:23.

:47:23. > :47:27.Park are absolutely phenomenal. She ran here, finished in second place

:47:27. > :47:37.behind Tiki Gelana, who unfortunately, is really struggling

:47:37. > :47:43.in the marathon today. But this lady, she just accelerated. They

:47:43. > :47:49.were working hard, moving quickly. At every point of the race, Priscah

:47:49. > :47:57.Jeptoo was able to respond. She looks good now. A good, long gap

:47:57. > :48:05.behind. Checking her watch their. And there she goes, looking good,

:48:05. > :48:14.looking strong. Second place last time she ran in London, third

:48:14. > :48:20.place. And now, a year later, on a way to a glorious victory. Once

:48:20. > :48:28.again, an Olympic champion came to London and was not able to win it.

:48:28. > :48:32.Edna Kiplagat in second place. She's safely clear, and down the road, she

:48:32. > :48:36.can see Priscah Jeptoo in the distance. We were looking back at

:48:36. > :48:46.the Kenyan records to see whether Priscah Jeptoo had any chance of

:48:46. > :48:49.

:48:49. > :48:53.getting that Kenyan record. She will not get that today, but she is

:48:53. > :48:58.inside the last 600 metres now. Hopefully, she will not look at her

:48:58. > :49:04.watch any more. She just needs to run as hard as she can to get the

:49:04. > :49:08.race finished and enjoy the victory. She would take the first turn, and I

:49:08. > :49:17.always remember thinking you keep thinking the finish is around the

:49:17. > :49:23.corner and in fact, there are two or three corners! Priscah Jeptoo is

:49:23. > :49:33.going to come into sight of our commentary box. She will have the

:49:33. > :49:41.

:49:41. > :49:48.central road to herself there. at her. She's been extremely

:49:48. > :49:54.comfortable today. The welcome sight of the finish line with the Olympic

:49:54. > :49:59.silver medallist, cheered on by thousands here in The Mall. Didn't

:49:59. > :50:07.quite win in London last summer, but she's been supreme this year. Her

:50:07. > :50:14.training partner one in Boston last Monday, and what a wonderful way to

:50:14. > :50:19.cast our minds back to that race, but also celebrate London today. Her

:50:19. > :50:24.training partner, Priscah Jeptoo, wins in London. They will be

:50:24. > :50:34.delighted in each other's performances. Priscah Jeptoo, the

:50:34. > :50:39.champion of London 2013. A new best for Priscah Jeptoo. She performed

:50:39. > :50:49.supremely well. In the second half of the race, she was totally

:50:49. > :51:04.

:51:04. > :51:10.dominant. The best race of her there. Fantastic performance.

:51:10. > :51:16.Thinking back to what happened in Boston as she waits for the world

:51:16. > :51:19.champion who is just going past us. That's Edna Kiplagat, on her way

:51:19. > :51:29.down to the finish. There she is. She is enjoying these moments of

:51:29. > :51:35.glory. The world champion, Edna Kiplagat, who had a very strong

:51:35. > :51:44.race, did everything she could to hang onto her compatriot, but had to

:51:44. > :51:52.settle for second best today. Crossing the line in two hours,

:51:52. > :51:55.21.5, second place. Top run for Edna. Her and her husband are

:51:55. > :52:05.heading off to a farm in Wiltshire this weekend to see how it is done

:52:05. > :52:05.

:52:05. > :52:15.in the UK. Just looking back at the figures from last year, Priscah

:52:15. > :52:17.

:52:17. > :52:27.Jeptoo ran pretty much the same time as she did today. Impressive, isn't

:52:27. > :52:29.

:52:30. > :52:39.it? A very fast second half of the race. She is a very good athlete.

:52:40. > :53:15.

:53:15. > :53:19.athlete. This is significant for her because she may well be running a

:53:19. > :53:29.self into contention for the Japanese world Championships. --

:53:29. > :53:41.

:53:41. > :53:45.herself. I am told that winning will stand you in good stead in a race

:53:45. > :53:55.that was slow in the early stages. She has run well in the second half

:53:55. > :54:05.of the race. She still got another 300 metres or so to run, but it will

:54:05. > :54:06.

:54:06. > :54:11.be a good performance for her. Japanese contingent here in London.

:54:11. > :54:21.Huge support for their athletes. And of course, marathon running in Japan

:54:21. > :54:30.

:54:30. > :54:40.selection for the world Championships? We'll have to wait

:54:40. > :54:43.

:54:43. > :54:53.and see. 33 of age. -- 33 years of age. Third place here in London

:54:53. > :55:10.

:55:10. > :55:17.there as she saw the clock is ticking away. Maybe that explains

:55:17. > :55:27.why, in the early stages, she was trying to push along. Nonetheless, a

:55:27. > :55:44.

:55:44. > :55:54.for the athletes. The pacemakers were doing the job. Maybe they were

:55:54. > :55:56.

:55:56. > :56:02.all looking at Tiki Gelana who then obviously fell. Still, to me, not

:56:02. > :56:12.showing whether she can run a really good marathon. Just not sure the

:56:12. > :56:28.

:56:28. > :56:38.that will be interesting. Absolutely. 17 medals in the world

:56:38. > :56:42.

:56:42. > :56:48.cross country. And just not quite able to make that transition. And Mo

:56:48. > :56:52.Farah is keen to point out that the marathon is different. There have

:56:52. > :56:56.been some great runners who have not made the transition as well as they

:56:56. > :57:01.should have done to the marathon, and there have been others who have

:57:01. > :57:11.not run so fast but have really found their forte as they marathon

:57:11. > :57:35.

:57:35. > :57:41.Partridge and Amy Whitehead. We are expecting them, if you minutes away.

:57:41. > :57:49.Hopefully, Susan Partridge will not be too far away from the finish

:57:49. > :57:54.line. The men's race, though, is in Canary Wharf. It has been a war of

:57:55. > :58:00.attrition out there. The pacemakers could not keep the pace going. One

:58:00. > :58:10.or two got injured. So now we are left with a view familiar faces and

:58:10. > :58:15.

:58:15. > :58:21.not so familiar raise -- faces. world record of 30 K is one hour 27

:58:21. > :58:31.minutes and 38 seconds. We are only ten seconds outside that. So this is

:58:31. > :58:41.really fast. They will be very close. But there are four men in the

:58:41. > :58:42.

:58:42. > :58:52.group, for tough men on the road in that group. They are led by Emanuel

:58:52. > :58:57.

:58:57. > :59:07.Between them, someone will prevail, but who will it be? Will it be the

:59:07. > :59:09.

:59:09. > :59:15.Kenyan, the Eritrean? Four men, down to four. Their pace has been

:59:15. > :59:19.consistently strong. Ten seconds outside that world record. I hope

:59:19. > :59:29.they are getting the information they need. They are running faster

:59:29. > :59:31.

:59:31. > :59:41.than anyone has ever run before at this point. That group breaking up

:59:41. > :59:56.

:59:56. > :00:06.again. Just having a look around. They like to see the group whittled

:00:06. > :00:17.

:00:17. > :00:23.down, one by one, by Joel time, wait. That this Tiki Gelana, just

:00:23. > :00:27.heading towards Big Ben. In front of me on the Mall, Susan Partridge is

:00:27. > :00:32.just finishing, a good run from Susan Partridge. She has about

:00:32. > :00:37.another 40 seconds to get to the finish line. Come on, Susan, the

:00:37. > :00:41.World Championship qualifying time is 2.31. The clock is ticking down,

:00:41. > :00:46.she has 30 seconds left with 100 metres to go. She is just about

:00:46. > :00:54.going to make it, a trip to Moscow could be the reward for Susan

:00:54. > :00:56.Partridge. I knew best not today, but the qualifying time, 2.31, first

:00:56. > :01:02.British athlete home, Susan Partridge, well done. Well done

:01:02. > :01:07.indeed. From the West Coast of Scotland, that was the hard one. If

:01:07. > :01:11.you go out as hard as she did, it would have been a bit of a

:01:11. > :01:16.travesty, all that training and hard work, if she had not got the

:01:16. > :01:21.qualifying time. That is what I was just about to

:01:21. > :01:26.say, she definitely ran it the hard way, went fairly fast and had to

:01:26. > :01:29.hold it together and dig deeper. It has sunk in and she has realised

:01:29. > :01:34.what she has done, that was difficult for her through the

:01:34. > :01:37.closing miles. Three minutes and more quicker than

:01:37. > :01:41.she has run before. Amy Whitehead will be disappointed she was not

:01:41. > :01:51.able to do the same. She also went off pretty quick, all of these women

:01:51. > :01:59.

:01:59. > :02:06.did. Irvette van Zyl, and then Adriana da Silva.

:02:06. > :02:15.In the men's race, Paul Pollock is going well from your husband's race

:02:15. > :02:21.team in Ireland. Tiki Gelana, what a sad day for her. Stephen Kiprotich

:02:21. > :02:25.was not expecting to get up there. A quick point, Paul Pollock is

:02:25. > :02:33.actually Irish, not British. Anyway, he is in the British list.

:02:33. > :02:38.We will borrow him today. As we are watching Tiki Gelana, we are

:02:38. > :02:46.expecting Amy Whitehead a little further around the chorus, about six

:02:46. > :02:50.hundred metres ahead of the Olympic champion. We are expecting as the

:02:50. > :03:00.spit -- second British women home. Beautiful shots of Buckingham

:03:00. > :03:10.

:03:10. > :03:13.slowing, they had to, really, after that fast first place. Some of the

:03:13. > :03:21.five kilometre splits were phenomenal, the last was the slowest

:03:21. > :03:25.of the race, but that is still fast running. It happens now, they have

:03:25. > :03:29.to be tired, they are slowing down. They are also slowing because they

:03:29. > :03:37.are sizing each other up, trying to decide, have I got enough in my legs

:03:37. > :03:40.to go note to micro also in the first half of the race, Emmanuel

:03:40. > :03:50.Mutai, Ayele Abshero, Stanley Biwott, all of them together,

:03:50. > :03:56.shedding a few yards ahead, Feyisa Lilesa of Ethiopia. To micro

:03:56. > :04:06.Ethiopians, to Kenyon's, and Emmanuel midday is the former world

:04:06. > :04:10.

:04:10. > :04:16.record holder. -- two Kenyon's. -- Kenyons. There is Amy Whitehead. Not

:04:16. > :04:21.the result she would have liked, she will be just outside Europe has done

:04:21. > :04:27.best. She went out hard, as did Susan Partridge, wasn't able to hold

:04:27. > :04:35.it together in the second half. That will be a lesson learned. Every time

:04:35. > :04:40.you run the marathon you find out a little bit more about the event. I

:04:40. > :04:46.think you could just hear that little comment, maybe a little too

:04:46. > :04:51.quick early on. She will be able to divest -- I jest that, but I know

:04:51. > :04:55.she was in very good shape. She went off very, very hard and she

:04:55. > :04:59.has paid the price and slowed down a lot in the closing stages. All

:04:59. > :05:04.credit, she did not blow up completely, she was able to hold it

:05:04. > :05:07.together and run a fairly decent time. She will be happy enough with

:05:08. > :05:11.that race that she had the chance to test yourself a little more in the

:05:11. > :05:17.opening stages, to know she was able to hold it together. She will have

:05:17. > :05:25.to work on getting that qualifying time.

:05:25. > :05:30.Chika Horie of Japan, and Joyce Kepkirui looking tired in the

:05:31. > :05:35.distance. In the elite women's field, because they go off at a pace

:05:35. > :05:40.that is faster than the masses are going to do, even the good athletes

:05:40. > :05:49.in the mass race, the only problems if you get cast adrift you are

:05:49. > :05:58.pretty much on your own. It is a long, lonely run. This is Joyce

:05:58. > :06:02.Kepkirui. Her husband is at 2.21 marathon runner, they do a lot of

:06:02. > :06:12.the training together, I think she thought she was capable of that,

:06:12. > :06:27.

:06:27. > :06:31.rain on a wet day in August it was glory all the way for Tiki Gelana.

:06:31. > :06:37.She graced us with a wonderful gold medal run at the Olympic Games. We

:06:38. > :06:41.were looking forward, as I am sure she was, to producing a quick, good

:06:41. > :06:46.run here in London and perhaps winning this race, but a fall in the

:06:46. > :06:50.early stages when she collided with Josh Cassidy, one of the wheelchair

:06:50. > :06:54.athletes at one of the feed stations, left her not moving

:06:54. > :07:01.particularly well, completely affected her race. She has gamely

:07:01. > :07:08.carried on, almost jogging by her standards. I hope she has not done

:07:08. > :07:12.herself any long-term damage, the Olympic gold medallist, 2: 36, she

:07:13. > :07:22.did make it to the finish but it is an experience she want -- she will

:07:23. > :07:32.

:07:32. > :07:36.area, approaching 21 miles, the men's race really hotting up now. We

:07:36. > :07:42.had that fast first half, then a little period of circumspection, a

:07:42. > :07:45.little period of sizing each other up, and the first one to break is

:07:45. > :07:51.Stanley Biwott. He is the first to have a go at putting on the pressure

:07:51. > :07:56.here. Trying to make that move, because

:07:56. > :08:01.the gap is beginning to open. Emmanuel Mutai had a go, Ayele

:08:02. > :08:06.Abshero has had his settling in period. Look at Ayele Abshero, he

:08:06. > :08:11.has only ever run of three marathons. His fastest was his

:08:11. > :08:15.debut, he won in Dubai, then came the Olympic Games with great

:08:15. > :08:20.expectations from the Ethiopian section, he was not able to finish,

:08:20. > :08:23.and Emmanuel Mutai, the course record holder, for once, is

:08:24. > :08:28.beginning to show signs of being under pressure. The gap is beginning

:08:28. > :08:33.to open, two of them beginning to break away, just as in the women's

:08:33. > :08:42.race. 21 miles gone in the men's race and Emmanuel Mutai, who won

:08:42. > :08:49.this race a couple of years ago in a course record time of 2: 4.14.

:08:49. > :08:53.Behind him, Feyisa Lilesa has dropped of the group.

:08:53. > :08:57.They will take a significant boost from this as a job was dropped, they

:08:58. > :09:02.will know they are doing the damage, they are breaking people and they

:09:02. > :09:05.will know that the times are also very fast. Emmanuel Mutai now finds

:09:05. > :09:10.himself in the difficult position of trying to hang on as well as he

:09:10. > :09:19.can, while knowing that Feyisa Lilesa is behind him, so he could

:09:19. > :09:28.still come under danger from him. One hour and 40 minutes of running.

:09:28. > :09:30.Is this the move by Stanley Biwott? Look at the gap opening. He quickly

:09:30. > :09:40.opens the gap, Emmanuel Mutai realises he is pulling away, and

:09:40. > :09:40.

:09:40. > :09:46.goes past Ayele Abshero. The yellow vest of Emmanuel Mutai, the red vest

:09:46. > :09:50.of Stanley Biwott. His best time of two hours and five minutes, he is

:09:50. > :09:55.going to be really close to that, but is he going to have to keep

:09:55. > :09:59.going to do that or will he be able to pull away and settle and run not

:09:59. > :10:04.quite as fast as that? He is looking good, looking comfortable, and that

:10:04. > :10:08.is a big gap now. One thing I do know about Stanley

:10:08. > :10:14.Biwott is he considers himself not to be a good finisher. He has lost a

:10:14. > :10:18.couple of races in the latter stages. Recently he lost a half

:10:18. > :10:23.marathon back in January by two seconds. He was dipped in the last

:10:23. > :10:27.couple of seconds and lost the Shanghai marathon by four seconds.

:10:27. > :10:30.He is not renowned as a good finisher. He does not consider

:10:30. > :10:34.himself to be a good finisher, so this will be one reason why he will

:10:34. > :10:39.be feeling good at the front. It is early to do that, but if you are

:10:39. > :10:49.feeling good, why not push on? He is not that experienced, but he has

:10:49. > :10:49.

:10:49. > :10:53.good times behind him, particularly Paris /dear, a good talent. He is

:10:53. > :10:58.part as the same training group as Priscah Jeptoo. If the group are

:10:58. > :11:01.going well, you have half a chance. Certainly at this point he is going

:11:01. > :11:04.well. That is right, we saw the Shard

:11:04. > :11:13.player, now we are looking down at the crowds gathering on Tower

:11:13. > :11:17.Bridge. Back to the leader, Stanley be what going strongly. He is really

:11:17. > :11:24.pursuing this event. He knows this course, he was the pacemaker here in

:11:24. > :11:31.2011. He knows his way around, he paced the race won by Emmanuel

:11:32. > :11:37.Mutai. Emmanuel Mutai in second place in the yellow vest, then Ayele

:11:37. > :11:40.Abshero in third. That gap just beginning to stretch a little. He

:11:41. > :11:45.looks as though there settling, running well, this is a good point

:11:45. > :11:50.in the race for him. This is the section of the course

:11:50. > :11:59.where they run alongside the runners alongside into the Isle of Dogs in

:11:59. > :12:02.the other direction. Trying to get some idea of who might win the race,

:12:02. > :12:06.they are still very much focused on their own race. I don't think

:12:06. > :12:13.Emmanuel Mutai is totally out of this yet. He is still working hard

:12:13. > :12:18.and the gap is not growing. I agree with Paula, it is a

:12:18. > :12:22.significant gap but not yet a race winning one. We have seen it so many

:12:22. > :12:26.times in the past, not to count your chickens, plenty of miles where

:12:26. > :12:31.things can change. You can feel good in one mile and all of a sudden the

:12:31. > :12:40.energy starts to drain away. He actually trains even higher than

:12:40. > :12:50.many of the Kenyan athletes do, they train at 2800 metres -- he trains at

:12:50. > :12:51.

:12:51. > :12:57.2800 metres. Like quite a few, like Tiki Gelana, Wilson Kipsang, he ran

:12:57. > :13:03.the New York Marathon. When that did not happen he reset London as his

:13:03. > :13:13.target. A fast race, a nutritional race, it is all about that strength

:13:13. > :13:15.

:13:15. > :13:20.now. 1: 42.7 through -- 1: 42.47 through that last marker section,

:13:21. > :13:24.they are slowing down. They are, but I think that was

:13:24. > :13:27.inevitable given the pace they went through the first-half, but they are

:13:27. > :13:33.not slowing down drastically. I think he is still focused on running

:13:33. > :13:40.a personal best, as fast as he can go out here today. It is one of

:13:40. > :13:46.those racists were the one who the least winds. -- were the one who

:13:46. > :13:51.slows the least wins. Unless it was a superhuman race,

:13:51. > :13:56.there was going to be so many fastest times you today, we are now

:13:56. > :14:01.finding out the later stages of the marathon. I cannot get over the

:14:01. > :14:04.crowd. Runners going one way, crowds on both sides of the road,

:14:04. > :14:10.absolutely fantastic, this is the marathon -- best marathon in the

:14:10. > :14:14.world. Ayele Abshero came to the other big games year, number four,

:14:14. > :14:20.having won his debut marathon in Kenya then dropped out of the

:14:20. > :14:26.Olympics. He is in third place, just has to hang onto this position. He

:14:26. > :14:29.wants to be on the podium. The Ethiopians were a bit disgruntled

:14:29. > :14:34.with the Olympic performance when all three athletes dropped out the

:14:35. > :14:38.Olympic Games. Tsegaye Kebede, former Olympic medallist that we

:14:38. > :14:44.favoured because he has been strong and consistent over the years. That

:14:44. > :14:48.is a big gap to Emmanuel Mutai. It looks like less of a gap there from

:14:48. > :14:53.Emmanuel Mutai, the course record holder, to the leader, Stanley

:14:53. > :14:57.Biwott. A lot could change in the late stages of the marathon. 20

:14:57. > :15:03.minutes to go, look at Emmanuel Mutai, he is stretching now, running

:15:03. > :15:08.more powerfully, more aggressively, he is flying. The gap was given at

:15:08. > :15:12.six seconds and it does not look as if it has grown a huge a lot more

:15:12. > :15:17.than that. We are coming up to the 22 mile mark

:15:17. > :15:22.now, then they will go down through the underpass, a significant

:15:22. > :15:25.downhill -uphill before the finish, and then they will be in the closing

:15:25. > :15:30.stages and they will have run at this level of fatigue in training

:15:30. > :15:35.but not with the crowds like this to keep them going. There will be some

:15:35. > :15:45.very tired legs out there, but once they get into the last three miles

:15:45. > :15:45.

:15:45. > :15:48.they know that end is in sight and it is a case of keeping the body

:15:48. > :15:51.going. In his mind now he will be using every technique possible to

:15:51. > :15:55.take the focus away from how tired he is, how hard it feels and how

:15:55. > :15:58.heavy his legs feel. Hitting one foot to go -- in front of the other

:15:58. > :16:01.and getting to the finish line. I was watching an interview with him

:16:01. > :16:06.and his coach before he was due to run in New York and they talked

:16:06. > :16:14.about his training, about 30 kilometres runs, 42 kilometre runs

:16:15. > :16:24.that he runs in two hours two minutes. That is -- sorry, 38

:16:25. > :16:25.

:16:25. > :16:31.kilometres run, and that is is hard run. That is really hard running.

:16:31. > :16:41.That is what these guys are doing, showing they are capable of winning

:16:41. > :16:49.

:16:49. > :16:59.in London. Talking about winning in London... Think this is the

:16:59. > :17:03.

:17:03. > :17:13.Paralympic 5000 metre champion. A lot of the people watching won't

:17:13. > :17:23.appreciate that this guy is legally blind. Very good time as well. In

:17:23. > :17:35.

:17:35. > :17:45.his debut in the London Marathon. A wonderful victory. And a very useful

:17:45. > :18:07.

:18:07. > :18:13.manual sensitives opportunity. -- sensed his opportunity. Strides into

:18:13. > :18:22.the front. He won it two years ago, but he has been in the top four and

:18:22. > :18:32.three other occasions. Most people weren't really considering him in

:18:32. > :18:39.

:18:39. > :18:49.the top three today. Everyone thought he had had this day. He was

:18:49. > :18:55.

:18:55. > :19:01.11 in the half marathon. If that was any sort of indicator, he has

:19:01. > :19:08.obviously come on since then. He has got himself into good shape.

:19:08. > :19:16.Incredibly quick through the first 10-15 K, and the strength and desire

:19:16. > :19:20.to hang in there and not give up, to keep the gap. When that gap doesn't

:19:20. > :19:28.get any bigger, you start a thing, that is the best you've got. And the

:19:28. > :19:36.way he goes now. They are all running on very tired legs now. We

:19:36. > :19:41.saw in the way he moved, there was no flicker of, do I gather myself

:19:41. > :19:51.before I make an attack? He is maintaining in a rhythm he can

:19:51. > :19:53.

:19:53. > :20:02.maintain, and he's keeping going in that pace. The halfway point meant

:20:02. > :20:08.they would slow down a little. This one looks as though he's slowing

:20:08. > :20:18.down the least. The contrast in styles, that's what your courage

:20:18. > :20:20.

:20:20. > :20:30.teaches you. -- coach. This is his 13th marathon, and the only one he

:20:30. > :20:31.

:20:31. > :20:36.has ever won before is London 2011. He is today, looking as though he

:20:36. > :20:46.has a real chance now of making this his second victory in the London

:20:46. > :20:54.

:20:54. > :21:03.Marathon. Maybe two miles back, he had a bit of bounce. He is under

:21:03. > :21:08.pressure for second spot, actually. He'll have to maintain, keep going,

:21:08. > :21:18.make sure he doesn't just give up because he is not winning this race.

:21:18. > :21:33.

:21:34. > :21:43.Second in London would still be a IPC World Cup race. Another athlete

:21:44. > :21:48.

:21:48. > :21:55.who has come home and negotiated, he is legally blind. And we think the

:21:55. > :22:05.winner of that IPC race has also set a world record. Certainly some very

:22:05. > :22:07.

:22:07. > :22:15.good time is being set. That course record held by this man here is two

:22:15. > :22:24.hours, four minutes and 40 seconds, and that may well be slipping away.

:22:24. > :22:28.The world record is just over a minute quicker than that. Seventh in

:22:28. > :22:33.this race last year and that was good enough to get him selected.

:22:33. > :22:43.Controversy over the Olympic selection for the Kenyan team. I'm

:22:43. > :22:45.

:22:45. > :22:53.still not convinced the right team got through. This is a real return

:22:53. > :23:01.to form. A tough race. You see the Times, don't you? You don't see how

:23:01. > :23:06.they perform. Doesn't tell you. It just tells you the finishing time.

:23:06. > :23:12.And you have two look, go through the spectrum and work it out, see

:23:12. > :23:18.exactly how that race was run. is also a significant difference

:23:18. > :23:23.between man -- marathons in major cities and championship marathons.

:23:23. > :23:28.And we came into this race with the Olympic champion, Stephen

:23:28. > :23:33.Kiprotich, and he is not one of the favourites to win this race because

:23:33. > :23:41.he is not fast enough, whereas in the championship, you can win a

:23:41. > :23:46.championship. There is a difference. Different people are doing it,

:23:46. > :23:50.different people are doing it. There aren't many events where the Olympic

:23:50. > :23:55.champion is not necessarily the best marathon runner, and the Olympic

:23:55. > :24:05.Games is an example where sometimes, the best run in the world doesn't

:24:05. > :24:15.

:24:15. > :24:25.win. In marathons, it's not like and 200 metres to go is the athlete

:24:25. > :24:32.

:24:32. > :24:38.in third place in this IPC World Cup contest. One turn to go. And then,

:24:38. > :24:47.the welcome sight of the London Marathon finish. And he certainly

:24:47. > :24:57.will not have experienced crowds like this before. The times have

:24:57. > :25:02.

:25:02. > :25:12.been magnificent. The Italian, looking very comfortable. He has the

:25:12. > :25:13.

:25:13. > :25:23.mall all to himself. And all of these races will continue on into

:25:23. > :25:33.the athletics season, both on the track and on the roads as well. Very

:25:33. > :25:38.

:25:39. > :25:45.good time, though, once again, at 2.55, inside three hours. All three

:25:45. > :25:55.athletes have been decided, all visually impaired. Won't be long

:25:55. > :26:13.

:26:14. > :26:21.before the mall is packed full of Embankment. Buying Tim, -- behind

:26:21. > :26:28.him, many casualties out there. Stanley has not only lost second

:26:28. > :26:37.place, he has also lost third place. Brendan was even talking about the

:26:37. > :26:46.likes of Stephen Kiprotich not finishing this. Even though he's

:26:46. > :26:56.moving better than anybody, I am not sure this one is that much quicker.

:26:56. > :27:00.Just gives you an idea of what that pace has done. Absolutely. Very

:27:00. > :27:08.tired legs. And Stephen Kiprotich has stuck to his pace. Might

:27:08. > :27:18.actually see him move through and get through to the top 45. This is

:27:18. > :27:21.

:27:21. > :27:29.inevitable. -- the top four or five. He obviously was going flat out

:27:29. > :27:35.about halfway point and 30 K, and now, he is paying the price. When it

:27:35. > :27:43.goes, it goes completely. In this instance, the encouragement is not

:27:43. > :27:47.doing him any good. The leader is the guy who slow down the least. We

:27:47. > :27:54.can't tell quite how fast he is going on the Embankment, but he's

:27:54. > :28:01.enjoying this bit of the course and race. We are seeing changes

:28:01. > :28:11.happening at all points. There's the other athlete who was favourite.

:28:11. > :28:15.

:28:15. > :28:25.Showing some experience and showing caution in the last stage does help.

:28:25. > :28:42.

:28:42. > :28:52.That's his team-mate, ahead of him. trying to work out how far back

:28:52. > :28:57.

:28:57. > :29:07.years. -- he is. A few minutes ago, lots of chopping and changing.

:29:07. > :29:09.

:29:09. > :29:19.Particularly when that group pulled away. Still well over a mile because

:29:19. > :29:20.

:29:20. > :29:30.we have not passed that red telephone box yet. Still in the

:29:30. > :29:35.

:29:35. > :29:43.lead. The strongman of the marathon just past the halfway point. Now, he

:29:43. > :29:53.is coming through strongly. Went and made representation to government

:29:53. > :29:55.

:29:55. > :30:04.about selecting him. The disappointment that date was that

:30:04. > :30:09.three Ethiopians dropped out of the Olympics. But there we are. Is he

:30:09. > :30:19.slowing significantly? I think he's starting to struggle a bit, but is

:30:19. > :30:33.

:30:33. > :30:37.this before. He is very good at finishing quickly. Even back in

:30:37. > :30:42.2008, at the Olympics, when his opponent ran so well, I think Mutai

:30:42. > :30:47.is aware, he has got to be scared. He looks more tired than he did

:30:47. > :30:53.one-mile ago. He is also starting to look behind him with a lot of

:30:53. > :31:03.concern. I am not even sure if his brain is functioning. He could not

:31:03. > :31:04.

:31:04. > :31:11.get the cap of the water bottle. Not every blade takes a drink at 40

:31:11. > :31:18.K. -- everybody. He did, and he is definitely stronger. Whether he can

:31:18. > :31:28.make up the distance, I don't know. I think that is less than 28

:31:28. > :31:28.

:31:28. > :31:38.seconds now. It certainly isn't 28 seconds, Steve. There is the tiring

:31:38. > :31:39.

:31:39. > :31:46.leader, Mutai. We can see the Olympic bronze medallists from 2008,

:31:46. > :31:51.the man who wasn't allowed by the Ethiopian federation to come to the

:31:51. > :31:59.London Olympics last year. Now, Emmanuel Mutai is attempting to win

:31:59. > :32:06.it for the second time. Behind him, you can see he is being chased down.

:32:06. > :32:12.Once he realises there's a race on, the gap that was 20 seconds, it is

:32:12. > :32:19.definitely not that now. I make it about 12 seconds, and it is closing

:32:19. > :32:26.with every stride. There's an air of inevitability about theirs. This

:32:26. > :32:31.diminutive Ethiopian, I think we all think he could have marathon he

:32:31. > :32:41.ran brilliantly to win in the autumn. That was some kind of

:32:41. > :32:41.

:32:41. > :32:47.consolation. But look at this. Now, with about 1,000 metres to go, are

:32:47. > :32:52.we to see a new leader? I think you would bet on him at this point. But

:32:52. > :32:58.apart from being the strongman of the marathon, apart from being

:32:58. > :33:03.strong in these late stages, he has got ace -- a fantastic sprint

:33:03. > :33:08.finish. He has got the confidence of the chaser. He is catching the

:33:08. > :33:14.leader. What does he do? Does he go straight past? That is the right

:33:14. > :33:18.thing to do. There he goes, straight pars. A forlorn glance

:33:18. > :33:22.from Emmanuel Mutai. He can't do anything about it. Now, the

:33:22. > :33:28.strongman of the marathon, the man who wanted to come here last year

:33:28. > :33:31.and win the Olympic Games, he begged with his Federation, Haile

:33:31. > :33:39.Gebrselassie took his case up and he was not able to persuade them,

:33:39. > :33:44.but here he is, returning to London, where he has won before. He is a

:33:44. > :33:50.distance when and is now hitting the front and moving away. -- a

:33:50. > :33:55.distance winner. He is a tiny figure, a man who trains so hard.

:33:55. > :34:01.He grew up in poverty, one of 13 children. He used to and $1 per

:34:01. > :34:05.week collecting firewood. Then he started running seriously to cater

:34:05. > :34:10.for his family. He is running because he wants to. He loves to do

:34:10. > :34:14.this. This man, a few miles ago, you would have bet on him to do it.

:34:14. > :34:20.Now the compact figure in the blue vests from Ethiopia looks over his

:34:20. > :34:23.shoulder, and he realises that with 600 metres to go, he just has to

:34:23. > :34:28.keep it going and he wins the London Marathon for the first time.

:34:28. > :34:35.He will be close to a good time, too. Look at the difference in

:34:35. > :34:39.cadence between the two. He is almost like a boxer as he is

:34:39. > :34:44.running there. A much faster turnover. More bounce and more

:34:44. > :34:48.alert. You can see that Emmanuel Mutai is hanging on for the finish

:34:48. > :34:56.line and concentrating on putting one foot in front of the other and

:34:56. > :35:04.slowing down with every step. a return to the streets of London.

:35:04. > :35:10.He has judged it perfectly. His story has captured everybody's

:35:10. > :35:15.hearts. One of a family of 13. Lots of poverty around him, but full of

:35:15. > :35:20.riches today. He was denied the opportunity because of official

:35:20. > :35:28.done to run in the Olympics, which he so badly wanted to do. But here

:35:28. > :35:38.he is, coming back, after winning in Chicago, that here he is again,

:35:38. > :35:47.

:35:47. > :35:53.and here is his best. One more turn, one more street. One more straight.

:35:53. > :35:58.Kebede, with that style of his, fully suited to the marathon. On

:35:58. > :36:08.this toughest of days for the marathon world, one of its best has

:36:08. > :36:08.

:36:08. > :36:18.come through to be victorious. Kebede, he won in America last year

:36:18. > :36:19.

:36:19. > :36:27.and now he comes into when his second London Marathon. A race

:36:27. > :36:32.which required Supreme judgment, confidence in your ability, not

:36:32. > :36:37.panicking when other seemed to be forging on, not worrying about the

:36:37. > :36:41.clock, concentrating on your own performance. Emmanuel Mutai looked

:36:41. > :36:46.as though he would have the race. He was not able to maintain it.

:36:46. > :36:50.They have all slowed down so much in the second half. A strong second

:36:50. > :36:54.place for Emmanuel Mutai. He will be happy to have been in the top

:36:54. > :37:00.three, but to have victory snatched away in the last half a mile will

:37:00. > :37:05.be a tough one to bear. It is not what happens at the halfway point,

:37:05. > :37:09.it is what happens at the end. Abshero, the athlete from Ethiopia

:37:09. > :37:15.who dropped out of the Olympics, he finds his team-mate on the finish

:37:15. > :37:20.line waiting for him. These two are good friends. They train together.

:37:20. > :37:30.There they are, the two Ethiopia's I first and third. Well done to

:37:30. > :37:30.

:37:31. > :37:40.Ethiopia today. And forth as well, Brendan. -- fourth. Wilson Kipsang

:37:41. > :37:41.

:37:41. > :37:51.is finishing strongly. Not his race today. That could be Stephen

:37:51. > :37:58.Kiprotich in the background. He hoped to come to London to win last

:37:58. > :38:05.year. This year, he asked to settle for fifth place. -- he Hasted. And

:38:05. > :38:12.then the Olympic champion just behind these two. There he is,

:38:12. > :38:22.Kiprotich of Uganda. A pretty solid performance by him. He is not

:38:22. > :38:39.

:38:39. > :38:47.considered to be able to rein to could see it all of the way.

:38:47. > :38:52.know who might be happy with that? Mo Farah. I think now he will be

:38:52. > :38:57.thinking, well, I am happy I dropped out. I was feeling good

:38:57. > :39:01.about point. Of course, not everybody knows what happens in the

:39:02. > :39:08.second half. I think Mo will be happy with what he has done and

:39:08. > :39:12.what happened in the second half. Absolutely. He got a good run out

:39:12. > :39:16.for the half-marathon that he wanted. These guys have learnt the

:39:16. > :39:20.hard way that running negative splits is the easiest way to run a

:39:20. > :39:25.marathon. It is easier to run faster in the second half and the

:39:25. > :39:29.first half. You use up all of your glycogen stores and then it becomes

:39:30. > :39:36.all about keeping going. It is a war out there just to keep your

:39:36. > :39:45.body going in the direction you want it to. I don't know, is he the

:39:45. > :39:55.first European finisher? I think he might be the first European

:39:55. > :39:57.

:39:57. > :40:04.finisher. We will keep an eye out for the first British finisher.

:40:04. > :40:11.Paul pollack is ahead of Derek Hawkins. He runs for Ireland. Derek

:40:11. > :40:21.Hawkins, Scotland's best marathon runner. Scott Overall, we think I

:40:21. > :40:47.

:40:47. > :40:53.concluded, all pretty much concluded. Still some very tired

:40:53. > :40:58.elite runners out there. When did you ask about advice, I always go,

:40:58. > :41:06.take a leaf out of the elite athletes' book. Don't go out too

:41:06. > :41:11.hard. One or two pulling up in the streets now. Hopefully all of these

:41:11. > :41:21.people have judged it well. They have got a long way to go. These

:41:21. > :41:28.

:41:28. > :41:32.cars have been a start, also. -- have been stars. The women's race

:41:33. > :41:39.was 61.68, so they are completely opposite races. The men's was

:41:39. > :41:42.slowing down and the women's or was speeding up. For me, that is the

:41:42. > :41:50.fascination of the marathon. You never know what you are going to

:41:50. > :41:53.get either at the front or the back. This is at Cutty Sark. The crowds

:41:54. > :42:01.have stayed out to cheer those who are going to take a little while

:42:01. > :42:06.longer than others. I am not sure he is in the race! He has just been

:42:06. > :42:13.diverted. Maybe he is. I am not sure. Just went out to get the

:42:13. > :42:23.shopping and look what happened. It doesn't matter how long you take.

:42:23. > :42:28.

:42:28. > :42:38.It is about the challenge of the you want to cheer on metaphorically,

:42:38. > :42:40.

:42:40. > :42:43.you can tax last -- text last or send us your tweets. Later on, we

:42:43. > :42:53.will be scrawling summer across the screen. We will be reading a few

:42:53. > :43:08.

:43:08. > :43:13.out. -- scrawling summer across the haven't prepared well, it can

:43:13. > :43:17.really attacked you in ways you don't want to. Even the very best

:43:17. > :43:25.can struggle if you don't get it right. The man who was the world

:43:25. > :43:30.record holder in this event was Patrick Makau. That is him, there.

:43:31. > :43:36.It was a struggle from the start for him. The clock now showing

:43:36. > :43:43.about two hours and 30 minutes. He is going to be running over two

:43:43. > :43:51.hours and 14. We have seen a tough day for some of the stars of

:43:51. > :43:59.marathon running. Gelana, Makau, haven't seen Geoffrey Mutai, either.

:43:59. > :44:04.We heard rumours that he had a hamstring problem. He is the man

:44:04. > :44:11.who ran the fastest ever marathon. It did not qualify as a record

:44:11. > :44:17.caused because of the downhill nature of Boston. -- a record

:44:17. > :44:27.course. Makau, the only consolation he has today is that he is still

:44:27. > :44:57.

:44:57. > :45:03.minutes, proximally. At 10am, the main race started. The peak finish

:45:03. > :45:10.will be somewhere around the 4.5 hours point. The finishing crews

:45:10. > :45:15.are started to get limbered up for the masses as they were startled --

:45:15. > :45:19.will start to build. Big Ben will watch over them all. You can see

:45:19. > :45:24.Big Ben from such a long way away when you are approaching, and

:45:24. > :45:34.sometimes, I have done it myself, you think, it is not getting any

:45:34. > :45:34.

:45:34. > :46:15.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 51 seconds

:46:15. > :46:25.nearer when you are tired. her debut over the distance. Talking

:46:25. > :46:31.

:46:31. > :46:37.about qualifying for Scotland, shouldn't be too long before we see

:46:37. > :46:42.Derek Hawkins. In fact, as I speak, he is coming in front of me now. He

:46:42. > :46:52.has got 150 metres to go, and Derek will be the first British man to

:46:52. > :46:54.

:46:54. > :47:04.cross the line. It will be outside his personal best. There he is. It

:47:04. > :47:06.

:47:06. > :47:13.will cement his selection for Scotland. Crosses the line into .16.

:47:13. > :47:23.He has had problem with his preparations. Derek was hoping to

:47:23. > :47:27.

:47:27. > :47:33.run well under two, 14. -- 2.14. Down at The Mall, we will be

:47:33. > :47:43.watching them finish four hours to come yet. For the town -- time

:47:43. > :47:53.

:47:54. > :48:03.being, we are going back to again! Crossing the line with a

:48:04. > :48:05.

:48:05. > :48:11.smile that size and no sweat on his body at all was remarkable!

:48:11. > :48:17.Obviously, a big day for London. Six days after Boston. You must be

:48:17. > :48:21.incredibly proud of the way the marathon and the city has responded.

:48:21. > :48:29.It's fantastic, typically British. People are saying they have not seen

:48:29. > :48:33.crowds like this for eight years. Maybe next year, I can get out on

:48:33. > :48:37.the course and soak up the atmosphere. As you said, the way

:48:37. > :48:42.that Boston has dealt with it has been remarkable. It will never get

:48:42. > :48:48.anyone down here. The great thing about the marathon is no matter what

:48:48. > :48:58.colour, religion or nationality you are, everyone comes together. To

:48:58. > :49:00.

:49:00. > :49:02.raise money for amazing courses as well, that you can never take away

:49:02. > :49:12.fro people. It really important message after the bombings is your

:49:12. > :49:13.

:49:13. > :49:17.people said you would be here. was never an option. Everyone is

:49:17. > :49:27.here. No one has changed their plans. The volunteers, security,

:49:27. > :49:32.nothing has changed. It is the British way. Millions of pounds

:49:33. > :49:42.raised for charity. You are patron of the London Marathon charitable

:49:43. > :49:44.

:49:44. > :49:48.trust. Yes, as Sir John said to me, �50 million was raised last year. It

:49:48. > :49:52.is a great opportunity for people to come along and raise money for their

:49:52. > :50:00.own personal charities, big or small. We are very lucky that we

:50:00. > :50:05.have a huge amount of places given to us for all of our charities. We

:50:05. > :50:09.are hugely fortunate for the marathon does for us. We are

:50:09. > :50:16.immensely grateful to them. I will continue to show my support where I

:50:17. > :50:23.can. You have just announced another challenge for yourself! Yes, walking

:50:23. > :50:32.with the wounded is something I had been involved in the sometime. It is

:50:32. > :50:37.an amazing opportunity. I only managed to do four days last time.

:50:37. > :50:41.Anyway I can support these guys I will. If that means walking 280

:50:41. > :50:48.miles, no one told me that when I signed up for it, now I know it is a

:50:48. > :50:54.hell of a long way! I don't hold the guys back. It will be a fantastic

:50:54. > :51:02.race and fantastic cause. It will raise money for all these people

:51:02. > :51:12.around the world who are having to carry on their lives with injuries.

:51:12. > :51:30.

:51:30. > :51:40.Certainly has been a fantastic day the London Marathon, you never know

:51:40. > :51:42.

:51:42. > :51:45.what to expect. Tiki Gelana went down there! The crowd are enormous

:51:45. > :51:55.here. The quickest men that have ever run this distance, all in there

:51:55. > :52:34.

:52:34. > :52:42.highlights so far. The full result second place. The Olympic champion,

:52:42. > :52:51.Stephen Kiprotich, was sick. In the women's race, it was a different

:52:51. > :52:58.story. -- was sick. The game changes Priscah Jeptoo introduced were too

:52:58. > :53:08.much everybody else. She won in London in, 2013. Edna Kiplagat tried

:53:08. > :53:09.

:53:09. > :53:14.to hang onto the world champion. The Olympic champion we saw early on.

:53:14. > :53:24.Susan Partridge the first British athlete to cross the line. She was

:53:24. > :53:26.

:53:26. > :53:30.in ninth place. As far as the men's wheelchair race was concerned, eight

:53:30. > :53:36.athletes came into The Mall together, but it was Kurt Fearnley

:53:36. > :53:41.who sprinted ahead of everybody. He won the honour said today, ahead of

:53:41. > :53:51.Marcel Hogg of Switzerland and as Van Dyke of the Republic of South

:53:51. > :54:01.

:54:01. > :54:08.it was honours to the United States in first and second place. Tatyana

:54:08. > :54:15.MacFadden actually one in Boston less than a week ago. And Sandra

:54:15. > :54:22.Graaf, we missed her finishing, but she finished in third place.

:54:22. > :54:32.Christine Dawes in fourth place. David Weir, of course, we expected

:54:32. > :54:43.

:54:43. > :54:49.him to be in the honours today. Just tougher. I had four months off. I

:54:49. > :54:55.had a tough winter as well, but I felt good in training. Fitness is

:54:55. > :55:01.totally different, though. Some bits I was struggling a little bit, but I

:55:01. > :55:08.always struggle the year after. The London Marathon is always a tough

:55:08. > :55:14.one for me. But I'm happy. You can't win all the time. I bounced back.

:55:15. > :55:21.The question would be: How do you follow last year? Do you think

:55:21. > :55:30.motivation will be a problem? really. This year, I can pick and

:55:30. > :55:33.choose what races I want to do. I always do it on a four-year cycle.

:55:33. > :55:38.I'm 34 and I've got to save my body if I want to carry on for the next

:55:38. > :55:48.couple of years. I can't peak of every single rose that I do. Last

:55:48. > :56:02.

:56:02. > :56:12.year was a tough year. To get it but controversy early on. Tiki

:56:12. > :56:13.

:56:13. > :56:21.Gelana, the favourite, the Olympic champion, a nasty incident there.

:56:21. > :56:27.Josh Cassidy took her out. Both of their race is ruined. Josh Cassidy,

:56:27. > :56:37.rightly so, very upset. Afterwards, speaking to officials and lots of

:56:37. > :56:46.

:56:46. > :56:55.issues commonly once resolved. -- he I've mentioned before, and I don't

:56:55. > :57:00.know who's responsible, but every single year, we to overtake the

:57:00. > :57:06.women. We overtake them and there are ten shares going over 20 miles

:57:06. > :57:12.an hour, and the poor women are just scrambling to find their feet. And

:57:13. > :57:18.sure enough, one of them knocked into me. I had a brand-new $200 pair

:57:18. > :57:23.of wheels that are damaged and who's going to pay for them? It's really

:57:23. > :57:28.frustrating. It's got to change. obvious thing would be to have

:57:28. > :57:34.stations at opposite side of the route. The safest thing would be to

:57:34. > :57:41.have the wheelchair race first. Because one of these women are

:57:41. > :57:49.bidding to get knocked out unconscious at some point. It's not

:57:49. > :57:55.worth it, having this programme. If it's going to cause injury or harm,

:57:55. > :58:02.it's not worth it. You got a few bumps and bruises. Are you OK?

:58:02. > :58:12.OK. I'm sorry for the way your London Marathon worked out.

:58:12. > :58:18.

:58:18. > :58:27.that something you have had to deal with in races before? It's quite

:58:27. > :58:32.normal. All the athlete briefings, everyone is made aware of how we

:58:32. > :58:38.have to be. But at that particular point in the course, you have to

:58:38. > :58:42.make a decision in the chairs which way to go. Perhaps, the men's pack

:58:42. > :58:47.should not have gone so close to the tables. The danger is when you are

:58:47. > :58:54.coming in from behind because the runners can't hear you. If you shout

:58:54. > :59:01.anything, it might send them the wrong way. It's one of those

:59:01. > :59:05.situations where everybody really need to be aware of what's going on.

:59:05. > :59:15.Paula Radcliffe is in the commentary box. Is that something you have ever

:59:15. > :59:19.fallen foul of? Absolutely. When I've been out, running, and have the

:59:19. > :59:29.vehicles around me, I have had the wheelchair pack come past me, and

:59:29. > :59:31.

:59:31. > :59:35.then they have the lead chairs with them. The later wheelchair riders

:59:35. > :59:41.have made me jump as they have come past me. It throws you of your

:59:41. > :59:47.rhythm a little bit because you're not expecting it. Here, the girls

:59:47. > :59:53.weren't expecting it. Suddenly, there are wheelchairs in the way.

:59:53. > :59:58.It's difficult. It's difficult to anticipate exactly when the

:59:58. > :00:04.crossover would come. Maybe a way round it would be to put the drinks

:00:05. > :00:11.tables in the early stages, on opposite sides of the road. I know

:00:11. > :00:16.that's the way in mixed road races. But they have the drinks on the

:00:16. > :00:26.tables down the middle-of-the-road said it -- the women go one side,

:00:26. > :00:36.

:00:36. > :00:42.He is the world record holder so there's a reason he is not happy.

:00:42. > :00:48.There's an argument to start the wheelchair race first. I know a

:00:48. > :00:51.huge amount of work has been spent trying to optimise the start times.

:00:51. > :00:56.The guys in chairs are going so quickly now that we might be able

:00:56. > :01:03.to push them closer together. weir talks about the post-Olympic

:01:03. > :01:08.year. What do you make of their performances? I know they both had

:01:08. > :01:13.extended holidays. They need to be in the right frame of mind. Dave

:01:13. > :01:20.was watching what was going on. There was an element of pushing

:01:20. > :01:26.around the road. In the final finish, he wasn't there. Shelly

:01:26. > :01:30.Wood may be more disappointed, four minutes down. That is it for the

:01:30. > :01:40.elite race, pretty much. We are going to focus on the masses now.

:01:40. > :01:41.

:01:41. > :01:43.Still a lot to look forward to. You have to be over 18 to win -- run

:01:43. > :01:48.have to be over 18 to win -- run the marathon. But we have got the

:01:48. > :01:57.Mini Marathon. An inspiring story of a mother and daughter from the

:01:57. > :02:02.Isle of Man are running for a cause close to their hearts. For Andrew,

:02:02. > :02:12.the marathon was one of his ways of losing weight. And we will be

:02:12. > :02:12.

:02:12. > :02:18.catching up with many more stories. One of the things that will help us

:02:18. > :02:23.to get those stories is our reporters around and about along

:02:23. > :02:29.the course. We start with the Denise Lewis.

:02:29. > :02:33.I am here at Tower Bridge, the halfway stage. Just the sight of

:02:33. > :02:38.this iconic landmark we give the run as a real psychological boost

:02:38. > :02:45.as they know that half of the task is complete. From here it is six

:02:45. > :02:51.miles to Canary Wharf, where, waiting for us, is Katharine Merry.

:02:51. > :02:56.90,000 people work here, but for one day every year, the business

:02:56. > :03:01.district opens its road to 35,000 runners in the London Marathon. I

:03:01. > :03:07.am here at the 18 mile point. The athletes are dwarfed by some of the

:03:07. > :03:12.biggest buildings in the UK. The band is here. They will send them

:03:12. > :03:17.on their way to Big Ben and the face of Colin Jackson. I am

:03:17. > :03:22.standing right under the world's most famous clock tower. By the

:03:22. > :03:26.time they reach me, it is the 25 mile point. Just as they go around

:03:26. > :03:31.the corner, they will have the site of the finish. That should spur

:03:31. > :03:41.them on. I will be grabbing some people in the crowd and reminding

:03:41. > :03:45.

:03:45. > :03:52.line, he will become the first person to complete the race with

:03:52. > :03:55.motor neurone disease. Mark, a former professional footballer and

:03:55. > :04:00.father of three, had been working as a coach when he was diagnosed in

:04:00. > :04:04.2010. Since then, he has completed the Liverpool marathon, and to date

:04:04. > :04:09.has raised thousands for the Motor neurone disease Association. He

:04:09. > :04:16.hopes that a cure or life-saving drugs can be found for those with

:04:16. > :04:20.the disease. Kimberley Hazelton was only 24 we

:04:20. > :04:30.spread and which she gave birth to her twins. Both were born weighing

:04:30. > :04:33.

:04:33. > :04:36.less than two pounds. Tragically, Jack lost his fight to survive.

:04:36. > :04:44.William, her Grace the arts, survive and grow stronger each day.

:04:44. > :04:54.-- against the odds. Kimberley is supporting the charity Bliss, who

:04:54. > :05:02.

:05:02. > :05:07.were then added to support her. -- began to deteriorate, to the point

:05:07. > :05:11.where she was bedridden for almost a year. When Michelle was

:05:11. > :05:16.prescribed a new treatment, her life changed. Within three hours,

:05:16. > :05:26.she could stand again, and weeks later she was walking. She will be

:05:26. > :05:35.

:05:35. > :05:42.running the marathon with her Janet. She is running for Bliss,

:05:42. > :05:49.which has been to -- a support to her. If the course gets tough, her

:05:49. > :05:59.mum will be there to support her. This is Crystal Palace. Oh, my gosh,

:05:59. > :05:59.

:05:59. > :06:09.look at the rain! My mother started running in 1970...

:06:09. > :06:17.1971, I think. I ran the Irish National Championship and by one

:06:17. > :06:27.that in a time of something in the order of 2.38. You look like Simon

:06:27. > :06:38.

:06:38. > :06:44.the Sports were such a help. Wes -- when she suggested to run the

:06:44. > :06:53.marathon, I thought she was mad. This is very close to her heart. --

:06:53. > :07:02.bliss. Hope was born at 26 weeks. The first thing I thought was, oh,

:07:02. > :07:08.my God, is she going to survive? She was literally the size of your

:07:08. > :07:15.hand with arms and legs dangling down. There's all of these

:07:15. > :07:19.potential issues that arise. What is that? They were worried about a

:07:20. > :07:29.heart murmur. Two blood transfusions, vomiting after every

:07:29. > :07:33.feed. Luckily, in her situation Qureshi has some difficulty --

:07:33. > :07:42.luckily in her situation, she had some difficulties but they were

:07:42. > :07:47.result. The charity really helped us. They are just amazing. I

:07:47. > :07:53.thought I would like to give back. The last marathon I would have run

:07:53. > :07:59.would have been in the early 1980s. So, 30 years since I ran. The

:07:59. > :08:06.competitiveness has not gone away! I bet she would clip me on the line.

:08:06. > :08:16.She always has to be in front. always like to be in front. I get

:08:16. > :08:21.given out to by Jan all the time, get back. We are going to finish it.

:08:21. > :08:31.Crossing the line together will be amazing. The emotions on the day, I

:08:31. > :08:40.

:08:40. > :08:46.am not prepared for that but I see you both. It has been a long

:08:46. > :08:54.few weeks and months. How is it for you? The atmosphere is amazing. The

:08:54. > :08:59.people and support, well, it is moving. The people we met before

:08:59. > :09:07.the start, it is amazing. We get to know each other's life story. It is

:09:07. > :09:15.a whole life experience. That is what today is about, isn't it?

:09:15. > :09:22.Everybody has a story. It is very humbling. There has been tears

:09:22. > :09:29.already. And your little girl will be watching. I saw her at eight

:09:29. > :09:39.miles. We will see her at the end. We just need to find a toilet!

:09:39. > :09:49.

:09:49. > :09:53.Whitehead will be delighted to be coming down the Mall to huge cheers.

:09:53. > :09:59.He puts his muscles on display. Later on this year, he plans to run

:09:59. > :10:09.from John O'Groats to Land's End to raise over �1 million for various

:10:09. > :10:09.

:10:09. > :10:13.cancer charities. There's not one person on the Mall who will not be

:10:13. > :10:20.slightly jealous of the ability of Richard Whitehead, whether it is a

:10:20. > :10:30.sprint of a marathon. He has got it all. A superb time. Very close to

:10:30. > :10:39.

:10:39. > :10:44.day overlooking London on, I think, one of the best days to be in this

:10:44. > :10:49.city, London Marathon day. We are now going to look at some of your

:10:49. > :10:59.messages that are coming in. So many be well are watching out for

:10:59. > :10:59.

:10:59. > :11:49.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 51 seconds

:11:49. > :11:55.year. We expect Chris fan will -- fennel, who will break the three

:11:55. > :12:05.hour mark. Also, the Bobby Moore fun, it is the 20th anniversary. --

:12:05. > :12:10.

:12:10. > :12:20.Bobby Moore Fund. They will be making him proud. And 41 members of

:12:20. > :12:33.

:12:33. > :12:43.young athletes. The whole Yeats family, Oliver, Toby and Sophia,

:12:43. > :12:58.

:12:58. > :13:01.on behalf of a juvenile diabetes Foundation that are led by the

:13:01. > :13:11.enigmatic Henry waters. He is 71 years old now so that BT will be

:13:11. > :13:17.

:13:17. > :13:25.able to get home with his bus pass. somewhere on the course. Good luck,

:13:25. > :13:35.Scott. Jenny is raising 3005 udder pounds for the St Elizabeth Hospice

:13:35. > :13:35.

:13:35. > :14:19.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 51 seconds

:14:19. > :14:25.but have your hair bleached a reporters, who are in various

:14:25. > :14:35.strategic positions and are ready to feed back on some of the many

:14:35. > :14:42.

:14:42. > :14:48.are you supporting? We are here supporting the honeypot

:14:48. > :14:53.children's charity. We support parents of vulnerable children aged

:14:53. > :14:57.five to 25 years. We are here to cheer them along, they are making a

:14:57. > :15:01.fantastic effort today. A lot of support and respect for the horrible

:15:01. > :15:06.scenes in Boston last weekend, you were not put off by that?

:15:06. > :15:10.People have turned up en masse and it speaks volumes about the level of

:15:10. > :15:14.tradition in the London Marathon. I run it a few years ago, it is good

:15:14. > :15:19.to be cheering on people this time. Why aren't you doing it again,

:15:19. > :15:26.Richard? We will have to see, wait and watch this space!

:15:26. > :15:32.Thank you. John, you are back again, 12 London

:15:32. > :15:36.Marathon, it is incredible. That is 12 years post-heart transplant.

:15:36. > :15:41.If it wasn't for a heart transplant I would have died in the summer of

:15:41. > :15:45.2000, but I am man died in a car accident and I was lucky enough to

:15:45. > :15:50.get Steven's heart. With that gift I have managed to run 12 London

:15:50. > :15:54.Marathon's, see my kids grow up, my eldest son and his partner have

:15:55. > :16:00.given me two grandchildren. Hot dies -- transplants save lives. I would

:16:00. > :16:05.like people to join the donor register and become someone else's

:16:05. > :16:11.Whewell, like Stephen is mine. And become a lifesaver.

:16:11. > :16:17.Absolutely. You are running on the spot, you

:16:17. > :16:22.have your carrier bag, Chris, taking on your water, how are you doing?

:16:22. > :16:28.Really good, I hit the wall from 16 to 17, but I started to pick up

:16:28. > :16:30.again, feeling good. You are saying it is your first marathon, I do

:16:30. > :16:33.enjoying it? The crowd really gets you going,

:16:34. > :16:39.when you feel you are slowing down someone shouting your name, it is

:16:39. > :16:42.brilliant. Who are you raising money for? For

:16:43. > :16:45.the Irish heart foundation, a really good cause.

:16:45. > :16:55.You are making me jump up and down as well!

:16:55. > :17:18.

:17:18. > :17:22.non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at only eight years old. After six months of

:17:22. > :17:26.chemotherapy and with the Kirov great Ormond Hospital, they were

:17:26. > :17:30.able to save his life. Although not fully cured he is an exceptionally

:17:30. > :17:37.good health at once to mark the 10th anniversary of his release from

:17:37. > :17:41.hospital with a special thank you to the team who saved his life.

:17:41. > :17:45.James is undertaking his first marathon after losing his second

:17:45. > :17:49.son, Sebastien, to stillbirth. The loss came as a huge shock to his

:17:49. > :17:55.family. Unfortunately there was no medical explanation for what

:17:55. > :17:59.happened. James, supported by his wife Helen and son, Alex, decided to

:17:59. > :18:03.dedicate their run to a charity designed to prevent problems that

:18:03. > :18:07.occur during pregnancy so other parents can avoid losing a child

:18:07. > :18:17.through stillbirth. In 2004, John Reynolds was left

:18:17. > :18:19.

:18:19. > :18:21.struggling to what even the shortest distances after strong bouts of

:18:21. > :18:23.radiotherapy for a thyroid condition. Since recovering, he has

:18:23. > :18:26.run more than 50 races from half marathons to ultra marathons. Last

:18:26. > :18:29.year he broke the world record for the longest distance run under seven

:18:29. > :18:35.days. He is running for the National osteoporosis Society could intends

:18:35. > :18:45.not to take his bones for granted. -- to remind himself not to take his

:18:45. > :19:09.

:19:09. > :19:12.A year ago today, Lord acting was diagnosed with a brain tumour

:19:12. > :19:19.following brain surgery and intense radiotherapy she is out here today

:19:19. > :19:24.trying to prove herself. She wants to prove to herself and others that

:19:24. > :19:27.things will be harder after brain surgery but not necessarily

:19:27. > :19:31.impossible. What an inspiration, raising money for the National

:19:31. > :19:39.Hospital of neurology and neurosurgery. Linda Kennedy, running

:19:39. > :19:47.for Maggie's centre, improving her run on 2.30. Keith Gosling, running

:19:47. > :19:51.for joint action on the Orthopaedic Society. Adam and Matt Chatterley,

:19:51. > :19:56.Adam runs six marathons in six continents last year and they are

:19:56. > :20:01.here to try and run under three hours. They are raising money for a

:20:01. > :20:05.school in Ethiopia. You don't know this, Steve, but I own a share of a

:20:05. > :20:15.racehorse with Sebastien Coe, and our trainer, Tom Simon scum is out

:20:15. > :20:17.

:20:17. > :20:25.running today. -- Tom Symons. I am not even going to mention the

:20:25. > :20:27.racehorse's performance! Linda Jenkins is running for Whizz-Kidz,

:20:27. > :20:30.and she says my 93-year-old grandmother will be watching and it

:20:30. > :20:38.will make her day if I am mentioned. For Linda's grandma, I hope it makes

:20:38. > :20:42.your day. John Brewer is running for the Riding for the Disabled

:20:42. > :20:52.Association in Bucks. His daughter, Emma, works there as a volunteer.

:20:52. > :20:56.

:20:56. > :21:05.Daniel Baird, good luck to you, and Stuart Mason, raising money for

:21:05. > :21:08.doing flag, an amazing charity that relies on donations to enable 200

:21:08. > :21:16.children to have a holiday of a lifetime with Phil medical support

:21:16. > :21:19.in his New World. -- dream flight. There are two runners running for

:21:19. > :21:25.SportsAid with many thousands of pounds raised for young sports men

:21:25. > :21:28.and women in the UK over a long time now, in fact. Tim is the Chief

:21:29. > :21:35.Executive and was delighted on Friday to announce the fact the

:21:35. > :21:39.Duchess of Cambridge was becoming a cape -- patron of SportsAid. Tim has

:21:39. > :21:44.also said he is due is in the London Marathon as a warmup for a 100

:21:44. > :21:49.kilometres event coming up later this year. A quick word about sport,

:21:49. > :21:54.as well, we lost one of the great patrons of young sports men and

:21:54. > :21:58.women in track and field athletics, Genentech -- Jean Pickering, who has

:21:58. > :22:02.been supporting young athlete all over the country for many years. She

:22:02. > :22:10.is the wife of Ron Pickering, the Ron Pickering Memorial fund will be

:22:10. > :22:16.swelled to the hopefully by many thousands of athletes. Let's wish

:22:16. > :22:20.them the best of luck. Millions of pounds being raised for charity

:22:20. > :22:25.today. Susan Vernon, running in her 20th

:22:25. > :22:28.marathon in memory of her son Oliver, she raised over �5,000.

:22:28. > :22:34.Helen Douglas, a filial -- physiotherapist, raising money for

:22:34. > :22:37.dream flight. We will continue to bring you those

:22:37. > :22:44.stories, but the stories at the beginning of the day were about the

:22:44. > :22:50.elite race. The first racer -- elite race. The first racer --

:22:50. > :22:54.winner was Priscah Jeptoo. Priscah Jeptoo, the winner of the London

:22:54. > :23:00.Marathon women's race, you were third last year, second in the

:23:00. > :23:06.Olympics, now you are the champion. Today I am very, very happy because

:23:06. > :23:11.I could not believe I would be the winner of today. I thank God because

:23:11. > :23:17.I am very happy, because I am the winner today.

:23:17. > :23:24.You won by a very long way, was it a tough race?

:23:24. > :23:28.It was, everyone is coming here and is really prepared for this race. I

:23:28. > :23:34.am very happy because today I was confident that I would make it

:23:34. > :23:43.today, because last year I was third place. We loved watching you run,

:23:43. > :23:47.many congratulations. Earlier on, the winners of the men's

:23:47. > :23:52.and women's elite races received their medals from Prince Harry. As

:23:52. > :23:56.we watched Tsegaye Kebede come through, it was an outstanding

:23:56. > :24:01.performance, hardly breathing at the end. The first Ethiopian to when for

:24:01. > :24:10.nine years, it has been a Kenyan domination of this race. This

:24:10. > :24:19.performance, at one stage it looked maybe like it would be Emmanuel

:24:19. > :24:29.Mutai. The athletes struggled to cope with the early pace, but the

:24:29. > :24:40.

:24:40. > :24:45.one who did best was Tsegaye the chance to look at the

:24:45. > :24:49.spectacular views on a beautiful day in London. We had hoped for this,

:24:49. > :24:54.after what happened in Boston matter week we wanted a great show today

:24:54. > :25:01.for the world marathon running, and I think we have got one. We have two

:25:01. > :25:09.fantastic winners and Priscah Jeptoo, hard training partner one on

:25:09. > :25:15.Monday in Boston. Tsegaye Kebede, former champion, coming back and

:25:15. > :25:23.timing his race perfectly today. We approach one BN, three hours, --

:25:23. > :25:27.1pm, I know that one man who might be hoping his finish, Stephen who

:25:27. > :25:31.watched on TV at few years ago and took up a major lifestyle change, he

:25:31. > :25:41.was overweight and smoked, he said if he ran a personal best he would

:25:41. > :25:46.

:25:46. > :25:50.get out a cigar at the end. Three We have to stop meeting like this.

:25:50. > :25:57.We have to stop meeting like this. Can I have a kiss from you?

:25:57. > :26:02.Go on, on this side. Are you finding it a bit tough this year?

:26:02. > :26:10.We ran after far too fast. Struggling a little bit at the

:26:10. > :26:16.moment. Have you been hydrating? I have been rehydrating. There are

:26:16. > :26:25.so many people running for great causes, I can complain for England,

:26:25. > :26:28.Brendan and Steve Cram and the rest of them know that. This man lost

:26:28. > :26:31.Lily at eight months and has never complained once. She was our little

:26:31. > :26:36.butterfly, she flattered only to Blakely and our lives. All of these

:26:36. > :26:40.families we are running for. Like Jonathan said, it has been six

:26:40. > :26:47.years since we lost Lily. She died of mitochondria will condition and

:26:48. > :26:51.we now support over 60 families, and this year we went over the �1

:26:51. > :27:01.million target. It has been tremendous. It all started when

:27:01. > :27:02.

:27:02. > :27:06.Jonathan, somehow, I'm still not He is draped with the star-spangled

:27:06. > :27:11.banner, you are at 18 miles, first-ever marathon in London, how

:27:11. > :27:15.is it going? It has gone really well, I was

:27:15. > :27:19.inspired by the events in Boston, I have a friend stopped half a mile

:27:19. > :27:21.from the finish line so I am running in her honour as well as those who

:27:21. > :27:27.could not finish. This marathon had extra significance

:27:27. > :27:32.than a week ago? Absolutely. How are you feeling? A

:27:32. > :27:35.bit more emotional, as you said? Absolutely, there are a lot of

:27:35. > :27:42.Americans out today cheering me on as well as the support from the

:27:42. > :27:52.London crowd, it is inspiring. will let you carry on, you are on a

:27:52. > :27:54.

:27:54. > :27:57.PB form, you said? The nuns from Derby! We are all

:27:57. > :28:02.running for Cancer Research UK we have to say a very special shout out

:28:02. > :28:06.to our friend and neighbour Jane, one of our inspirations, but also to

:28:06. > :28:09.Lee, Steve, Ian and all the people who have been with us training, and

:28:09. > :28:15.we are all doing it together, Arent we, girls?

:28:15. > :28:21.Yes! Well, you look like you live in good

:28:21. > :28:25.shape. Doing, really, really well.

:28:25. > :28:29.Everyone is so supportive! Is this your first marathon?

:28:29. > :28:37.I feel like a celebrity, everyone is shouting my name!

:28:37. > :28:42.Enjoy the rest of it. Neil has confirmed to me he is

:28:42. > :28:46.banana man, my colour vision had him as Batman. You have run this a

:28:46. > :28:49.couple of times before, you must be hot in there?

:28:49. > :28:55.They said it was going to be cooler than this, you have to go with the

:28:55. > :29:00.weather and make the most of it. have done it twice before, you are

:29:00. > :29:03.back, but is it about the London Marathon two it is the crowd, I love

:29:03. > :29:07.the experience. What is banana man raising money for

:29:07. > :29:16.today? I am raising money for sense on

:29:16. > :29:25.behalf of deaf and blind people. -- Sense. You may be hot but you are

:29:25. > :29:29.doing really well. The river has always been a central

:29:29. > :29:34.part of this event, but it is really the time they spent closest to the

:29:34. > :29:39.river at the end that people enjoy the most. They have half an eye on

:29:40. > :29:49.Big Ben as it approaches 1pm, the first landmark time, three hours is

:29:50. > :30:07.

:30:07. > :30:17.very good running, just inside a the background there. The clock has

:30:17. > :30:36.

:30:36. > :30:41.their race perfectly. Three hours is a really good benchmark. Just

:30:41. > :30:46.outside the three hour mark for these people here. Boston, of

:30:46. > :30:54.course, central to all of our thoughts. So many people who like to

:30:54. > :30:59.do both events. Many others who travelled from Boston to come and

:30:59. > :31:09.take part in London. Many are wearing just the name Boston on

:31:09. > :31:11.

:31:11. > :31:21.their T-shirts or carrying banners. Well done! There's another Boston

:31:21. > :31:28.

:31:28. > :31:38.T-shirt. I think we will see lots of the marathon course very

:31:38. > :31:56.

:31:56. > :32:06.effectively. Good running conditions well. Again, as I said, this is an

:32:06. > :32:07.

:32:07. > :32:16.event which people come all over the event which people come all over the

:32:16. > :32:22.world to take part in. It was the purple distinctive top that made me

:32:22. > :32:30.stop! You're back to London, but this time different from last year?

:32:30. > :32:37.I watched everything last year and took part. It has been brilliant.

:32:37. > :32:46.Everyone has spotted and recognised it. Atmosphere is fantastic. Whilst

:32:46. > :32:55.the charity? It's a charity that a long disorder, and one of my good

:32:55. > :33:04.friends is a sufferer. Any support is brilliant. This is your 30th

:33:04. > :33:14.marathon? Yes, and I have another 20 targeted! Thanks again for last

:33:14. > :33:23.

:33:23. > :33:31.out here. I've got to do! Only 60 minutes left. I've got to be here!

:33:32. > :33:40.Have you done 60? No, 33! One year, I did it three times in the same

:33:41. > :33:50.day! Well, you're looking in tremendous shape. The crowd is

:33:51. > :34:00.absolutely fantastic. It's kept me going. It's great to see you. Nice

:34:01. > :34:15.

:34:15. > :34:24.me. Just a jog today, though? to say a big thank you to everybody

:34:24. > :34:31.who supported me in the stadium. Last year, with my success in

:34:31. > :34:36.London, I decided I wanted to come back and support the IPC towards

:34:36. > :34:41.having a classification. I want to give something back to athletics.

:34:41. > :34:51.Some shots of you running down the Some shots of you running down the

:34:51. > :34:52.

:34:52. > :34:58.Mall. Describe that. I'm showing off a bit! I'm built for sprint in, so

:34:58. > :35:08.I'm just getting the guns out. I was doing that the 20 miles, believe it

:35:08. > :35:11.

:35:11. > :35:18.or not! What does the future hold for you? For me, it is about

:35:18. > :35:25.supporting the progress of athletics and whether that's for the team or

:35:25. > :35:29.whether it's just me as an athlete. I'm 36 years old, I'm looking to

:35:29. > :35:35.support the legacy of the games, the sport. It's opened up so me

:35:35. > :35:42.different doors for me and I'm so grateful for that. Hopefully, I'm in

:35:42. > :35:46.grateful for that. Hopefully, I'm in Rio and defending my gold medal.

:35:46. > :35:55.the immediate future, you have the world Championships this summer.

:35:55. > :36:00.That's right, and the anniversary games in London. Today was an

:36:00. > :36:04.amazing atmosphere. I was running across London Bridge on my own, and

:36:04. > :36:12.all that noise, it reminded me of the 1st of September when I had my

:36:12. > :36:22.200 metres. Hopefully, the anniversary games will get back to

:36:22. > :36:25.

:36:25. > :36:35.big legacy. I wanted to enjoy it. My coach wanted to make sure I got over

:36:35. > :36:50.

:36:50. > :36:54.the finish line safely. Seizing, marathon World Cup. No surprises for

:36:54. > :37:04.the Paralympic 5000 metre champion. Just ahead of another guy in the

:37:04. > :37:09.

:37:09. > :37:13.same category. I actually thought it was an athlete from Italy who came

:37:13. > :37:19.third, but obviously mistaken there. Richard Whitehead finished a

:37:19. > :37:29.little bit down the table. And there's different classes, this time

:37:29. > :37:41.

:37:41. > :37:51.That Paralympic marathon World Cup has been highly successful and long

:37:51. > :38:26.

:38:26. > :38:35.may it continue. Some agrees there. Batman! This is for the death and

:38:35. > :38:41.the blind. I haven't got any problems, so I help charities.

:38:41. > :38:50.Hopefully, next year, the marathon in South Africa, where I am from.

:38:50. > :38:55.How are you feeling? This dude has got superpowers, believe it or not!

:38:55. > :39:05.But if you put water on, it calls you down. That's only because your

:39:05. > :39:12.

:39:12. > :39:17.Batman! Onwards and upwards, young Farah, running just half a

:39:17. > :39:27.marathon. He dropped out at halfway. He got a massive response from the

:39:27. > :39:29.

:39:29. > :39:38.crowd. He went through very nicely crowd. He went through very nicely

:39:38. > :39:48.indeed. He pulled out halfway. Then he is passing Cutty Sark. And it was

:39:48. > :40:03.

:40:03. > :40:08.an electric early pace. Then he goes race. Was the race and event

:40:08. > :40:12.everything you expected? For sure. In terms of the race and preparing,

:40:12. > :40:18.I did everything I can, but watching the race was amazing. A lot of stuff

:40:18. > :40:27.has changed. By watching it, I learnt a lot more. What was the

:40:27. > :40:37.biggest lesson learnt? Being able to pick up my drink. At one point, I

:40:37. > :40:41.

:40:42. > :40:47.made a mess! That takes a lot out of you. You have seen the race unfold.

:40:47. > :40:55.What have you learned from Emmanuel Mutai being overtaken at the end as

:40:55. > :41:01.well? Well, that's what you got to do. The guy who one is really

:41:01. > :41:11.strong, he won it before. In a way, you timed it really well. I thought,

:41:11. > :41:12.

:41:12. > :41:20.wow! That's confidence in using that. I heard Paula Radcliffe saying

:41:20. > :41:27.you need to save the fastest pace for the second bit. Definitely. I

:41:27. > :41:33.learnt a lot. As I came off the bridge, the pace picked up. At the

:41:33. > :41:39.same time, a lot of stuff has changed. You've just got to be

:41:39. > :41:48.patient and take your time and be confident. Having that experience,

:41:48. > :41:52.I've learnt a lot. What have you learned about the build-up? Are you

:41:52. > :42:00.surprised you have had to defend yourself so much for doing half a

:42:00. > :42:05.race? Just can't believe what people think. At the same time, you got to

:42:05. > :42:12.know what's best for you. And this race works best for me. If you look

:42:12. > :42:16.back, all the guys who have been pacemakers, they were pacemakers a

:42:16. > :42:23.couple of years ago. A lot of the guys, before they come to the big

:42:23. > :42:30.one, they come as a pacemaker. For me personally, I have learnt a lot.

:42:30. > :42:37.That's all that counts. You're a double Olympic champion. You can do

:42:37. > :42:41.whatever you like. What's next for you? My first track race will be in

:42:41. > :42:51.June. I haven't decided whether I will do five K or ten Cate, and then

:42:51. > :42:53.

:42:53. > :43:03.just get ready and come back for the European cup in Glasgow. -- ten K.