As road-running fever touched all parts of the globe in the 1980s, cities all over the world have begun to hold marathons. Their number includes New York, London, Fukuoka, Seoul, and even Leningrad and Peking.
大都市舉行路跑，是八○年代的新流行；這幾年尤其熱門，從美國的紐約、波斯頓、英國倫敦、日本福岡到韓國漢城，甚至連鐵幕裡的列寧格勒和北平，也在舉行馬拉松。