• Question: What is the longest you have run in a marathon before?

    Asked by to Roberto on 17 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Roberto Trotta answered on 17 Jun 2014:


      42 km and 195m — that is, 26.2 miles. All marathons are exactly the same length, for a historical reason: it is said that this is the distance that a messenger ran thousands of years ago, to bring an important war-related message from Athens to the city of Marathon, in Greece. That’s why it’s called like that!

      If you run any longer than that, then you are doing an ultra-marathon. I haven’t done a ultra-marathon yet.

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