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
hurdling, are won by the athlete with the fastest time. The jumping and throwing events are won by the athlete who achieves the greatest distance or height. Regular jumping events include long jump, triple jump, high jump and pole vault, while the most common throwing events are shot put, javelin, discus and hammer. There are also "combined events" or "multi events", such as the pentathlon consisting of five events, heptathlon consisting of seven events, and decathlon consisting of ten events. In these,
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