We will not find running a marathon on any curriculum nor in many career presentations but there is an interesting link ...

The story of the Athenian messenger Pheidippides, whose remarkable running achievement inspired the modern marathon, has been told many times – but there has been much confusion and contradiction in ...

As we approach the 15K National Championship Gate River Run and the spring marathon season, I think it's time to pay tribute to the original king of endurance running - Pheidippides. Pheidippides was ...

You probably know something about the story of Pheidippides, even if you’ve never heard his name in your life. About 2500 years ago, on the north coast of Attica, Pheidippides is said to have ...

ATHENS (Reuters Life!) - Exactly two and a half millennia after the Battle of Marathon, an event widely acknowledged to have ensured the democratic legacy of Western culture, two veteran Greek ...

I write not just as someone who has stood — with goosebumps — on the Battle Plain at Marathon, and then followed in Pheidippides’ footsteps (actually quite a difficult course) but also as someone who ...

Legend has it that a runner called Pheidippides was the original Marathoner. After the Greeks' victory over the Persians at the Battle of Marathon in 490BC, the messenger was sent into Athens to ...

This fall, I found out what that phrase really means when I signed up to compete in my first real marathon. On a brisk morning, just before 7 a.m., with Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” blasted over the ...