London — Whether months of 193km-a-week training at altitude will be enough to transform Mo Farah into a world-class marathon runner will be revealed on the streets of London on Sunday, however the switch already seems to have transformed his state of mind. Farah has endured a prickly relationship with the media, suing one British journalist in 2018 for repeating the concerns of the International Association of Athletics Federations over his blood passport values, but he seemed a changed man as he looked ahead to Sunday’s London Marathon. "I’m more relaxed. The change from track has given me a massive boost and I’m enjoying it more than ever," he told a media conference on Tuesday. Medals in the bag "On the track I’ve won most of the medals I could win so each year to motivate yourself gets more difficult. You have to find a new challenge, something that gets you out of bed." Having spent close to a decade lining up as the favourite to bag multiple world, Olympic and European titles...
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