What Is A Marathon?
The marathon is one of those iconic challenges that people aspire to fulfil at least once in their lives. The distance of 26 miles 385 yards or 42.195km marks the challenge.
The name ‘Marathon’ originates from a town in Greece. It is fabled that a Greek soldier named Phidippedes ran from the plains of Marathon to Athens to report about the Persian War. The distance covered by Phidippedes defined the distances we know today.
With the advent of the information age and the Internet more and more people are empowering themselves to run marathons.