BBC Sport's Great North Broadcast

As always BBC Sport have given a good account of themselves in the broadcasting of the 29th Great North Run, with the familiar sights, familiar presenters and familiar celebrities running for their chosen cause/charity. And its always something to watch, if not just in the background. But the point that I want to turn off or over is when they start showing the text messages with support for people on the race course (that they can't see) and when they start to get lazy and put some random music on just to fill some time whilst the thousands pass the cameras.

I'm not saying that it's not a good thing to do, I'd love to do a couple of them in my lifetime. But I think it's more tiring for the people near the end of the course cheering everyone on, especially when the main pack come through the 13 miles and down the sea front at South Shields.

Sometimes I'm glad when the Great North Run or the London Marathon's on because TV on a Sunday morning is rubbish now that I don't watch Something for the Weekend or normally don't go near T4. But when you watch the Run, you work out that 13 miles, isn't that long and how I feel like lazy bastard sitting here watching it, but cause I'm 16 I can't actually run the race, I think the cut off is 17. Maybe when I'm 19 I'll do the London Marathon, don't hold me to that.

Oh, And don't forget the red arrows.