Starlight - The Supermen Lovers

Lyrics:- 'And faith is all you need to be the one' - Wilson, Pvel & Terenzi

Song Choice:- This track from the French composer and electronic music producer Guillaume Atlan cropped us yesterday on my iPhone and the lyrics fit in nicely with today's blog. It's well worth another listen too but make sure you get the extended mix as you'll get the groove for longer.

Anyway, it's the 'Supermen' part that I'm interested in for today's blog as the curtain finally came down on Farah and Bolt's track careers last night, and the end of this era couldn't really go by without some kind of comment could it?

You see, it would be far too easy to say it was one championship too many for both guys and that the writing was on the wall especially for Sir MO's 10km and 5km double. He looked really knackered in the 5km heats although he did finish one place ahead of my bronze medal prediction.

The BIG question from all of this is - when is a good time to stop? It's a tough call as careers are short in athletics terms, with a small window of high-cash opportunity and with Nike and Puma throwing huge levels of sponsorship at both athletes, plus exclusive endorsements with 'Quorn' and 'Virgin Media' bolstering their pensions - well, who wouldn't keep going for as long as possible especially if your last race heralded your last good pay packet?

The shame I thought was how quickly the public and the media quickly switched their attention from this anti-climax to the GB 4x100m Relay Gold Medallist’s, as you and I both know, the great British Public really loves a winner, but it must be the latest winner and sadly the 'Mo-Bolt' is now part of history.

Amen.

Rory Coleman - 997 Marathons - 244 Ultras - 14 Marathon des Sables

9 Guinness World Records - 8,621 Days' Alcohol Free - 469 Days' post GBS
& 1 Inspirational Running Memoir

Location: Cardiff, Wales.