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Friday, March 3, 2017

Why marathons can be deadly in the long run

Anyone contemplating running a marathon would be well advised to consider Pheidippides, the messenger in ancient Greece whose long-distance running feat gave us the word marathon and the race that goes with it. Within minutes of arriving in Athens and delivering a message of victory in battle, the exhausted Pheidippides died.


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