have you ever ran a marathon?
No I don't have the long distance endurance to run 42.195 kilometres  or  26.219 miles
holy crap its that long? i can barely walk 3 miles... marathons sound impossible. but do tell me more about them
Well it said that they first started with the run of a greek soldier to tell the city of Athens that they had won the Battle of Marathon
oh wow.. if thats how it really got its name i am amused. very cute.  anything else?
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.
deliver the victory message, the marathon running event of 26.2 miles / 42.195 km is based on this legend.
Physiology of long-distance running.
Humans are considered among the best distance runners among all running animals: game animals are faster over short distances, but they have less endurance than humans. Unlike other primates whose bodies are suited to walk on four legs or climb trees, the human body has evolved into upright walking and running around 2-3 million years ago. The human body can endure long