For all of those Marathon runners out there who regularly survive the 26-mile run - did you ever wonder about the origins of the name and the seemingly arbitrary distance? Enter the story of Pheidippides and his fabled run from Marathon to Athens - one of the most enduring legends from ancient Greek history.

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