I abhor running! lol I could never run a marathon which is a long distance race with a distance of approximately 26 miles.
I don't like running either! It always makes my knees hurt. I would much rather ride a bike.
distance did not become standardized until 1921. More than 800 marathons are held throughout the world each year, with the vast majority of competitors being recreational athletes, as larger marathons can have tens of thousands of participants.
History.
History Origin.
The name "Marathon" comes from the legend of Philippides (or Pheidippides), the Greek messenger. The legend states that he was sent from the battlefield of Marathon to Athens to announce that the Persians had been defeated in the Battle of Marathon (in which he had
also ran in the Honolulu Marathon in 2012. It was in Hawaii where he discovered the sport of long-distance race, three decades ago. “I acquired the running habit while I was working on my doctoral degree [in Economics] in Hawaii. That was in the early 1980s,” he says. “My runs then were limited to the 10K to 21K distances. “I never left long-distance running [over 10K] since then, though there were several years when I skipped 42