Great North Run, Farah's last race. Now, BBC1

Cram is ok I like him talks a lot of rubbish but that's what happens when you're commentating long enough

Paula should come clean on the doping

3rd for Charlotte and sub 70. Ran by herself for most of the race. Solid performance before Berlin.

These races have both been boring. Blowouts for Tola and Peres

Tola wins it in 59:58.

1. Tola 59:58

2. Abdi 1:01:20

3. Edris 1:01:54

4. Farah 1:03:28

(times approx)

Oh...this is totally not what I thought the thread was about

Farah over a km behind the leader. It was time to stop.

Mo Farah, your legacy is to have been the instigator of the most boring track distance racing scene between 2011 and 2017.

Good riddance.

Shocking article by the BBC. Under the heading "What else happened at the great North Run", you find out that a British athlete, Charlotte Purdue finished third and no mention of a time for her.

Mo Farah is one of the best ever and would have no problem hanging with and taking scalps with the best that today offers.

Missed it. Didn't hear the alarm I set for it. Must be the same manufacturer as his doorbell.

Love him or hate him (for many, the latter), you've got to respect what Farah accomplished in the sport. For half a decade or more, no one on the track could drop him, and almost no one could outkick him. He ran 3:28 for 1500m and also won the Chicago marathon. Combine that with excellent tactical saavy, and what you end up with is the most accomplished (not the greatest) championship 5k/10k runner of all time.

He's a multi millionaire and for Mo, that's a great achievement. I assume he'll join Cram and Radcliffe as a TV athletics pundit.

Would love to see Mo Farah in his prime form in todays’s tactical races, like this year’s 5k at worlds. would have given Jakob and Katir a run for their money for sure. I don’t think he would have been dropped yet going into the bell lap, and well, we know what Mo does on the last lap.

Yep no footage of her running either. Just the front two. I’d have actually liked the see the other elite women. Jessa Hanson was also running. Makes for quite a boring race just showing the front two.

Nobody will even remember him after Jakob is done

Oh please no. The BBC is bad enough without having somebody with no presentation skills and not the brightest forced upon us in the interests of political correctness.

I doubt it, he's not that great at analysing or explaining races. The BBC Athletics panel really needs an overhaul. They've unearthed some great new voices who are comfortable offering detailed analysis, like Jaz Sawyers, Hannah England, and Richard Kilty. Jaz Sawyers was especially good commentating on field events in Budapest, though she is obviously still competing. Wightman also did great on the distance events.

But we need more than Cram and Radcliffe. Radcliffe focussed almost solely on American runners for some reason, every race she's giving it "look out for Elise Cranny/Cole Hocker/Woody Kincaid!" and ignoring the far more likely medalists. Do you know, there's a popular game among British athletics fans called Emma Coburn Bingo? For some reason, the BBC team are obsessed with her. Anyway, we need analysts who know a bit more about the field, not just Jakob, the Brits and a couple of Americans.

Richard Nerurkar, former British international and marathon World Cup winner (no longer contested) would be a great choice - Oxford and Harvard educated, multilingual (French, German, Russian, Amharic). He's the organizer of the great Ethiopian run.

Also I find it strange that nobody is mentioning Tim Hutchings' contribution because I think he does a pretty good job even though he sometimes makes mistakes with regard to the identify of athletes and even their countries which is laughable at times.

Andrew Baddeley, the former elite miler, is also a good voice and pretty savvy.