What It’s Like to Run a Marathon Up the Side of a Volcano

British adventurer Joshua Patterson recently set out to run the highest marathon in history. Turns out, it was anything but ...
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What Really Happened at the Battle of Marathon

The Battle of Marathon is one of history’s most famous conflicts, yet many details are overlooked. We take a reluctant look ...

Sara Cox's Children in Need marathons and 7 other extreme celebrity challenges

As Sara Cox winds down her ambitious Great Northern Marathon Challenge, here's a rundown of some other extreme celebrity ...

For the first time in 22 years, history was rewritten at the NYC Marathon — thanks to Hellen Obiri

Hellen Obiri made history as the first woman to complete the challenging and emotional 26.2 mile course of the NYC ...
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Do The Twisted History: The Wicked World Of 1930s Dance Marathons

In the bleak years of the Great Depression, when dreams were cheap and bread wasn’t, America found its strangest form of ...

Why global warming could be ‘rewriting race history’ at major marathon events

Runners already face a daunting challenge when they line up at the start of a marathon, but increasingly they might find themselves with another obstacle to reckon with: global warming.

Fund-raising philanthropist Susan Hurley, who died at 62, was Boston’s marathon woman

"This is what I live for," she said of helping runners fund-raise through the Boston Marathon. "For them, it’s the Super Bowl ...
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The Story of the Real Marathon Run in Ancient Greece

Did the ancient Greek soldier Pheidippides actually run the distance from Athens to Sparta and back -- not just from Marathon ...

Obiri sets women's NYC Marathon course record, Kipruto wins men's race by a fraction of a second

Hellen Obiri of Kenya set a women’s course record to win the New York City Marathon while compatriot Benson Kipruto won the ...