Great to see the BBC showing the race. I had e-mailed them and Eurosport and got a reply from the BBC saying an announcment would be made.
It just shows what a great asset Paula is to distance running to promote the sport this way. I have many non running friends who would not usually watch track or road races but if paula is running they all watch. The next day like after the euopeans and commenwealths they all were talking about her.
She does make good tv even during a marathon she looks in pain at 5 miles never mind 25 so keeps the people watching. Lets hope an american can capture the imagination of the general public in that way.
It is a discrace if the marathon is not shown live in the US with the hundreds of channels you have and the crap they show at that time in the morning surely at least the 30000 families will be more audiance than some of these shows get.