Behind them, USA's Olympic 10,000 m champion Galen Rupp clocked 13:05.97 for fourth after having sat
behind the pacemaker and hit the front with five laps to go but been swallowed up.
At a minimum of 250 cm, or halfway up the track, there is a blue line called the stayer's line, used in stayer races (races
behind pacemaker - motorbikes) as a separation line.
In echoes of Paris five days earlier, when Muir's attacking tactics paid off with that British record, she followed closely
behind pacemaker Jenny Meadows, who led through 400m in 62.59 seconds and 800m in 2:08.10.
My view, which has developed gradually is that we need to make fundamental changes in the way the club is run to compete at the level we did for so long and that without them we will fall way
behind the pacemakers in English and European football.