Farah starts to 'listen to his body'
This excellent Guardian article written by Donald McRae gets deeply into the mind of the UK’s top endurance runner, right now. Mo Farah talks training, failure, Dave Moorcroft’s British-record and how photography is his next biggest love…
Big interview ‘My biggest Beijing lesson: You have to listen to your body’
Ten days ago, as he chased his first major win on the track at the European Indoor Championships in Turin, Mo Farah also ran from the ghosts of his past. He was once a small and frightened boy of nine, a Somali refugee, being beaten up on his first day of school in a strange new country. Farah could not speak a word of English in 1993 and, in a tough white neighbourhood in Hounslow in west London, he stood out as “this African kid who looked like he needed sorting out
