Mo Farah is adamant bigger and better things await after completing a season that included double gold at the European Championships.

Farah, the star British performer in Barcelona with victories in the 5,000m and 10,000m, has decided his long-term prospects are better served by sitting out next month’s Commonwealth Games in Delhi.

The Somalia-born Brit said: “I am just starting to scratch the surface of what I can achieve. This is a stepping stone for me.

“Every athlete wants to go to an Olympics and win a medal, that’s what it is all about.

“I have done well and won two golds at the Europeans and it is good, but the next step now is the World Championships next year and I have got to be looking ahead to that as the next challenge.

“Then the year after that we have the Olympics and what I have to do now as an athlete is mix it with the best the world has to offer. That is what I have to do.

“I have proven myself in Europe and I know that I’m the best but it is all about looking forward and thinking what’s next for me.”

Farah was speaking at St Pancras International Station as part of the UKA I Am An Athlete campaign, which aims to raise awareness and increase participation levels in athletics with the public.

Farah was meticulous in his preparations for the European Championships, training in Kenya and the Alps and even sending wife Tania home early from their honeymoon in Zanzibar in April. He intends to do the same again He said: “It opened my eyes seeing the Kenyan’s training because you think if they are working that hard and producing the results then that’s what I need to be doing.

“If I am not doing what they are doing to get to that highest level then what chance am I going to have on a world stage?”

l UKA’s I Am An Athlete campaign will bring the basic foundations of athletics – running, jumping and throwing – to life through relevant and targeted activities that seek to build athletics into people’s everyday lives and help build a new base for the sport of the future.