Marathons are fun to run in
Definitely! They are a 26 miles long and usually as a road race. I'm actually training for one right now!
oh really how far is yours, and how long do you train before it happens
All marathons are the same distance, 26 miles. My training program is 24 weeks long although this can vary depending on the person. It was one of the original olymic events in 1896!
really I didnt know that, actually either of those facts
The name "marathon" actually comes from the name of a battlefield to in Athens. Someone was sent from there to announce that Persians had been defeated! He ran it on foot.
oh wow, that is a fun fact to know, and such interesting history, I need to tell my kids that
just fought), which took place in August or September, 490 BC. It is said that he ran the entire distance without stopping and burst into the assembly, exclaiming ("nenikēkamen", "we have won!"), before collapsing and dying. The account of the run from Marathon to Athens first appears in Plutarch's "On the Glory of Athens" in the 1st century AD, which quotes from Heraclides Ponticus's lost work, giving the runner's name as either Thersipus of Erchius or Eucles.
teams started to think about it.
He was a big influence on my career. In terms of training, he was a long way ahead. In those times, riders did unbelievable miles on the bike. They’d go out and do 5 and 6 hour marathons every day.
In my time, he was the guy who’d make you do shorter rides of quality as well as a long mid-week ride. That was 10 years before specialised training programmes – I realised this because I’d been through