I run, but I haven't trained enough to run a marathon, or 26.219 miles.
I don't run I have arthritis but all the young people around here run marathos
Marathons go all the way back to the fabled run of Pheidippides, a messenger.  I just don't have the stamina!
I would never last a marathon but want to know all about them so I can converse with the neighbors about it
They were one of the first Olympic events in 1896, but the distance wasn't quite set until 1921.  I can run 1/2 marathon at 13.1 miles.
Can you imagine running that far lol I would keel over.
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.
in the race. Cloney said, "Women can't run in the Marathon because the rules forbid it. Unless we have rules, society will be in chaos. I don't make the rules, but I try to carry them out. We have no space in the Marathon for any unauthorized person, even a man. If that girl were my daughter, I would spank her."
Because of her run, the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) barred women from all competitions with male runners, with violators