Hi have you ever ran in a marathon?
I've never ran a marathon personally.  My dad did when I was just a little kid.  I did run track though.  How about you?
I have not ran one. did you know the marathon has an official distance of 42.195 kilometers?
I didn't know the kilometer distance.  I know it's measure as 26.2 miles in the US.  Interesting that we haven't started using the metric system.  Do you like running over 5 miles?  
I am not a big runner myself. One cool thing i just found out is that the original modern Olympic event held the first ever official marathon in 1896
What a cool fact.  Crazy to think that people have been running that distance for so long.  I like the idea of summer games having multiple events like short and long distance races. 
Yeah! The Summer sports are my favorite to watch and play. One more fact, the first ever olympics had participants actually die from attempting to run such far distances
Olympic Games
The modern Olympic Games or Olympics () are leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games are considered the world's foremost sports competition with more than 200 nations participating. The Olympic Games are held every four years, with the Summer and Winter Games alternating by occurring every four years but two years apart.
Their creation was inspired by the ancient Olympic Games, which were held in Olympia, Greece
in 2011. He says, “To be honest I didn’t know what marathon running all about till I was in college. I was always heavily into sport, but my choice was never running.” He started with a 12 kilometre inter-college event in Bangalore, which did not go well. After that, he ran a 10 kilometre event at Nagpur and finished comfortably. It was after that race that he realised that he was “made for such events” and tried a “half marathon at New Delhi