"Jonathan ("Jon") Michael Brown" (born 27 February 1971) is a former United Kingdom/British long-distance runner who specialised in 10,000 metres, cross country running and the marathon.

Born in Bridgend, Wales, he was affiliated with the City of Sheffield Athletic Club in England during his career. He gained Canadian citizenship in 2005, after living in there since 1996; but continued to make himself available for Britain until switching sporting allegiance at the start of 2008.

Earlier in his running career he competed for the Iowa State Cyclones Track and Field and Iowa State Cyclones Cross Country teams. He was a bronze medallist in the 5000 m at the 1992 European Athletics U23 Cup.

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He'll have to stay with me until then.

Last weekend took more out of me than I expected and physically I feel run down after a difficult week in the UK.

The thing about it was, I was just playing and did what coach Martin coaches. He really stresses throwing the unders, throw the wide routes. And that's really what I did was just throw completions.

He's a very talented athlete although he might have left switching to the marathon a little late in his career. But I'm ready for the challenge.

I know that as soon as Mike's ready to play he's going to be back on the field. He's a great quarterback, and when I'm asked to play, I'll do the best I can.

I have mixed emotions. We battled for three quarters but they made a little run in the fourth and we got frustrated.

It was a great team effort. We had some different kids step up and I can't say enough about how good our team defense was all night.

In light of my upcoming marathon I feel I need more time to recover and prepare without further interruption for my primary event.

We were down one with 29 seconds left and missed the front end of a one-and-one. They pulled away from there.