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World Athletics Gold Label: “Just break it down each mile” -- that's the advice Sir Mo Farah, one of the greatest track athletes ever, handed to the participants of the landmark 20th edition of the Mumbai Marathon, which will be held on Sunday.

The Somalia-born British runner Farah, who is the International Event Ambassador of the prestigious World Athletics Gold Label event in Mumbai, has recorded the 5,000m and 10,000m double at successive Olympics and World Championships. He also knows a thing or two about marathon running, having won the Chicago Marathon in 2018 and bagged bronze at the London Marathon the same year.

“Just break it down each mile. That is how I broke it down. I always told myself, get through this mile, and then the next, and then the next one. At the London Marathon, I was struggling from the get-go, it was going to be a tough day, but I wasn’t thinking I’ve got 42K to go, I was thinking get through each mile, break it down. And then once I got past halfway, I was like I’ve done more than half, so I’m good,” he said at a news conference on Friday ahead of the Mumbai Marathon.