Marathon

Marathon

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Marathon Rejoice, we conquer!  — Pheidippides, Robert Browning One of the most ubiquitous automobile decals is a simple outlined oval with the number 26.2 emblazoned within it. It means, depending on one’s viewpoint, that the driver is crazy, impressive, smug, masochistic, or some mixture of all four. The sticker signals the car’s owner ran 26.2 miles, otherwise known […]

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The Queen of Cocodona

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The Queen of Cocodona In 1896, the organizers of the first Modern Olympiad decided to honor a run that an ancient Greek courier named Pheidippides (maybe) made after the Battle of Marathon in 490 BCE. The newly coined “marathon” featured a distance that roughly mirrored the stretch from Marathon to Athens, around 25 miles (today, a

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