The double Olympic champion has outlined a plan to race the 5,000 metres and 10,000m next August before a likely switch to road running for the London Marathon in April 2014.

The 29-year-old, who pulled out of the Great North Run last month through fatigue, said he will soon start training once more at his Oregon base under the instruction of Alberto Salazar, who won the New York City marathon three times consecutively from 1980-1982.

"I've had a couple of weeks off and now I'm hopefully going to get back into it slowly," Farah said.

"I'll go back to America to do the training.

"We'll have to apply for the passports for the kids and go through the whole visas thing.

Mo Farah of Great Britain wins the men's two-mile invitation race during the Great North City Games last month

"I'd like to see myself go through from Olympic champion to world champion to longer distances – and see what I can do for the marathon.

"It's a different pain.

"I've done a 20 mile run and that's tough.

"The speed the guys run you need to be training, training.

"Alberto [Salazar] knows what he's doing, he's known as a marathon coach so hopefully he'll get me through.

"I'll think about the track for the world championships and then at the back of my mind I'll know when I'll do a marathon.

"I'd like to do London, that would be the first one, because you run in front of 80,000 people in the stadium and if I was running on the streets of London it would be great support.

"It would motivate me more than anything else.

"As a kid I did the mini-marathon so it would be rude not to do the full marathon.

"We're not going to step yet, we're still going to do the track."

Mo Farah speaks at the launch of the Move It report

Farah, speaking at the publication of the Move It report which encourages young people to participate in sport, said he feels he can dominate long-distance running in the way Kenenisa Bekele has done for Ethiopia "as long as I stay motivated and hungry as I can, that's what great athletes do."

He added that he sees his long-term future in England - as he would miss the football too much by staying in Portland, Oregon, where he currently lives.

Move It is a report which encourages young people to participate in sport, highlighting inactivity as a major public health threat, promoting investment and policy focus on elite and competitive sport and places young people at the centre of policy making, re-balance elite and community sport funding and leverage digital platforms to help drive behavioural change.

The report says Government should consider cross-departmental physical activity strategy, re-prioritisation of physical activity in schools and coordination and opening up of delivery and provision at the local level.

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