I survived Marathonas to Athens, Pheidippides didn't!!!
The Athens Marathon. The Authentic course. 30 - Athens Marathon the Authentic, Athens, Greece, 12 November 2017. At the beginning of 2014, if you had asked me about the Athens Marathon, I would have looked at you and answered the question with another question; am I expected to know that and why? Like many people (some runners included), I knew that in the running circles, there was track and road running, and all road running was marathon running. This is all I knew and needed to know. The thought of running the Comrades Marathon had crossed my mind by then, and I was confident I would one day. However, the running bug had not really gripped me to the extent of researching on all these nitty-gritties of running. A marathon was a marathon regardless of the distance. Five, 10, 21, 42 or 90 kilometers, were all marathons. So, why would I be expected to know anything about the Athens Marathon? It was only sometime in November 2014 while I was preparing for my maiden marathon, th