*’26 miles’ + ‘385 yards’*
(aka “26.21875” miles)
*26 MILES* –> *~41,842.94 meters*
*385 YARDS* –> *~352.04 METERS*
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*1 ‘MARATHON’* –> *~42,194.98 METERS*
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*METRIC REFERENCES* —>
*1 mile* —> *1760 yards*
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*WORLD RECORD*
-as of [8 APRIL 2024]-
-[2 HOURS] / [35 SECONDS]-
[AGE 23]
*8 OCTOBER 2023*
-CHICAGO MARATHON-
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*490 BCE*
The name Marathon[a] comes from the legend of Philippides (or Pheidippides), the Greek messenger.
The legend states that, while he was taking part in the Battle of Marathon, he witnessed a Persian vessel changing its course towards Athens as the battle was near a victorious end for the Greek army.
He interpreted this as an attempt by the defeated Persians to rush into the Greek capital and claim a false victory,[3] which took place in August or September, 490 BC,[4] hence claiming their authority over Greek land.
It is said that he ran the entire distance to Athens without stopping, discarding his weapons and even clothes to lose as much weight as possible, and burst into the assembly, exclaiming νενικήκαμεν (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.[6]
This is the account adopted by Benjamin Haydon for his painting Eucles Announcing the Victory of Marathon., published as an engraving in 1836 with a poetical illustration by Letitia Elizabeth Landon.
Satirist Lucian of Samosata (2nd century AD) first gives an account closest to the modern version of the story, but is writing tongue-in-cheek and also names the runner Philippides (not Pheidippides)
There is debate about the historical accuracy of this legend.[9][10]
The Greek historian Herodotus, the main source for the Greco-Persian Wars, mentions Philippides as the messenger who ran from Athens to Sparta asking for help, and then ran back, a distance of over 240 kilometres (150 mi) each way.[11]
In some Herodotus manuscripts, the name of the runner between Athens and Sparta is given as Philippides.
Herodotus makes no mention of a messenger sent from Marathon to Athens, and relates that the main part of the Athenian army, having fought and won the grueling battle, and fearing a naval raid by the Persian fleet against an undefended Athens, marched quickly back from the battle to Athens, arriving the same day
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