In today's episode, we're talking about a race that is literally 2,500 years old - that started with a soldier running himself to death, that almost didn't have a standard distance until a queen decided she wanted a better view, and that somehow went from an ancient Greek battlefield to your coworker's Instagram at six in the morning. This one is about the marathon. Where it came from, why it got weird, why it got longer than it needed to be - and why in 2026, more people are signing up to run 26.2 miles than at any other point in human history. So lace up. This one's a good one.