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windshell
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 Posted: 05/26/07 - 07:49 Post subject: Extra half mile on Colfax Marathon
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MechEngDropout
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Posted: 08/02/07 - 20:26 Post subject: Re: Extra half mile on Colfax Marathon
| windshell wrote: | The 446 runners who finished the second Post-News Colorado Colfax Marathon on Sunday did more than just race, jog, walk or stumble 26.2 miles.
They actually finished 26.7 miles - more than a half mile farther than the Greek messenger Pheidippides ran from Marathon to Athens, which started the whole madness.
Full story:
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5554917,00.html |
To clarify a hazy suggestion, the Greek dude didn't run 26.2 either. Wikipedia points to a 21.4 mile figure.
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