Dee ihe ọzọ maka paragraf a - Mgbe Longboat bụ nwatakịrị, onye Mohawk () bi na ebe nchekwa ahụ, Bill Davis, onye na 1901 mechara nke abụọ na Boston Marathon, nwere mmasị na ịgba ọsọ. Ọ malitere ịgba ọsọ n'afọ 1905, wee bụrụ onye nke abụọ n'ọsọ Victoria Day na Caledonia, Ontario. Mmeri mbụ ya dị mkpa bụ na Around the Bay Road Race na Hamilton, Ontario na 1906, nke o ji nkeji atọ merie. N'afọ 1907, o meriri na Boston Marathon na oge ndekọ nke 2:24:24 n'ogologo oge ochie 24-1/2 mile, nkeji anọ na sekọnd 59 karịa onye ọ bụla n'ime ndị mmeri iri gara aga nke ihe omume ahụ. Otú ọ dị, ọ dara n'ọsọ marathon nke egwuregwu Olympic nke 1908
, ya na ọtụtụ ndị ọzọ na-agba ọsọ, a haziri mmeghachi azụ n'otu afọ ahụ na Madison Square Garden na New York City. Longboat meriri n'ọsọ a, wee ghọọ ọkachamara, na 1909 n'otu ebe ahụ meriri aha nke Ọkachamara Ọkachamara nke World site na imeri Dorando Pietri na Alfred Shrubb n'ihu igwe mmadụ rere ere.