The marathon concept comes from a Greek messenger, Pheidippides, who ran from the town of Marathon to Athens to deliver a message, and then collapsed and died. The distance between the two places is reputed to be 26.3 miles.
I went on a drink binge following my marathon claim on saturday and last night I missed football, my exercise highlight of the week, as Emily was rather ill. I'm gonig running tonight to get me back on track. I promise.
A friend of mine told me about a website called runjogwalk, or walkjogrun, or some other combination of those three words. You can calculate the distance of your run, or a planned run. It turns out my saturday morning run was around two miles. I expect the appeal of the website grows when you go a bit further and the results are less daunting - two miles felt easy, but I can't imagine going over 13 times that far. No wonder Pheidippides snuffed it.
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