the name “marathon” comes from the legend of pheidippides, a greek soldier who, according to legend, was sent from the town of marathon to athens to announce that the persians had been miraculously defeated in the battle of marathon. jon sublet would have been pissed to hear that news, let me tell you. turns out that this guy dean karnazes is running 50 marathons in 50 days ending at the ny marathon. he is an ultra marathoner and will do these ridiculous 100 mile races or all night runs. crazy. in an article i read, they asked him what his most memorable hallucinations were, from his long races. one of them was that he saw an authentic 1849 gold rush miner walking across the road in the middle of the night. i probably wouldn’t run 100 miles to see that, but i would roll out and pay a few bucks to a shady homie to get something that would make me see some stuff like that. another part of the article talked about how, on a long run, he ate a full hawaiian pizza and a cheesecake. now, that sounds like it would be more my speed. maybe for the monday night football game tonight….
marathon, by dilated
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