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In 490 BCE, Pheidippides proved the power of the human body and spirit by running the 150 miles from Athens to Sparta to request help for the pending Persian invasion. He then ran back from Sparta to Athens, out to Marathon, back to Athens again announcing the improbable victory before collapsing of exhaustion.2387 years later (1897), the Boston Marathon, the world's oldest annual marathon, began running after the success of the first marathon in the 1896 Summer Olympics to commemorate that final fateful run of Pheidippides from Marathon to Athens.
In 1946, Stylianos Kyriakides, known as the original charity runner, won the Boston Marathon raising over $250k to support a war ravaged Greece.
Now in it's 130th year, the Boston Marathon is one of the premier fundraising events in Massachusetts raising over $38 million for over 290 nonprofit organizations and making it an integral piece of many of these charities operating budget.
The length of Massachusetts from the NY border to the Atlantic ocean, when incorporating the Boston Marathon, is 150 miles, the same distance that Pheidippides covered during that initial run to Sparta.
This November, in homage to Pheidippides, the Boston Marathon, and all of the good that has come, I will be running across the State of Massachusetts, incorporating Boston Marathon route, and continuing on to finish at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, at Fort Independence (Castle Island).
The length of Massachusetts from the NY border to the Atlantic ocean, when incorporating the Boston Marathon, is 150 miles, the same distance that Pheidippides covered during that initial run to Sparta.
This November, in homage to Pheidippides, the Boston Marathon, and all of the good that has come, I will be running across the State of Massachusetts, incorporating Boston Marathon route, and continuing on to finish at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, at Fort Independence (Castle Island).