MARATHON RUN HISTORY

For those of you who are very fond of exercise running, if you've never heard of and know about the origin of the marathon asl? Exercise of this one was very easy and inexpensive. We just need to run it without the need for other expensive tools. While running normally wear running shoes. Well, maybe it's just the tools needed to exercise run. You are curious about the origins of this sport? for more information, please refer to the following information from Thence Only

Year 2500 is a long story.
Modern Athens Marathon commemorates the journey soldier Pheidippides from a battlefield in a city location Marathon, Greece, to Athens in 490 BC, bringing news of the Greek victory over the Persians. Legend has it that Pheidippides delivered an important message "Niki!" ("Victory"), then collapsed and died, the dramatic conclusion to Marathon.

When the modern Olympic Games were inaugurated in 1896 in Greece, the legend of Pheidippides was revived with a distance of 24.85 mile (40,000 meters) run from Marathon Bridge to the Olympic stadium in Athens. The first marathon was held on April 10, 1896 is especially important to all Greeks. The event was the first modern Greeks Olimpiadedan not win a medal, and had one last chance to bring glory to their nation. Twenty-five runners mounted on Marathon Bridge. Starter mumbled some words and fired a gun. "The excitement the crowd waiting at the finish line at the newly built stadium of ancient Athens, writings of the Greek historian Quercetani.

Spiridon Louis, a Greek postal worker from the village Marusi and some military veterans march along the road, crossing the finish line. The time is 2 hours, 58 minutes, 50 seconds for a distance of 40 miles (average speed of 7:11 min / mile). When it was over nine runners to the finish line, 8 of them were Greeks. The host country is very happy, and that's where Marhaton born.

The United States is one of the participants from 9 countries at the Athens Olympics of 1896, thanks to the sponsorship of athletes by the Boston Athletic Association. Middle distance runner Arthur Blake are the only Americans who participated in a marathon first. Blake won the silver medal in the 1500 meters three days before the marathon, but unfortunately he lost because of fatigue and and stop after a distance of about 14.5 miles. Planning for North America's first marathon starts on return to the United States. The first annual Boston Athletic Association marathon held on 19 April, 1897 date was chosen to commemorate Paul Revere in 1775.

At the 1908 Olympics in London, the marathon distance was changed to 26.2 miles to cover the ground from Windsor Castle to White City stadium, with 2.2 yards added on so the race could finish in front of the royal family. It adds two kilometers of distance before, and is the origin of Marathon tradition of shouting "God save the Queen!" (Or in other words related to the Queen) as a sign of having been through 24 miles. After 16 years of discussion is very hot, the distance of 26.2 miles was established in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris as the official marathon distance.

Today, the marathon has become a tradition around the world. However, the annual Marathon in Athens, where it all began, has a tradition and are not comparable as the others. In 1996, the 100th anniversary of the modern Athens Marathon, more than 3,000 runners from every part of the world come together to walk in the footsteps of Pheidippides.

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