so this guy runs 26 miles after the battle of marathon to deliver an important message and dies of exhaustion at the end, just for a bunch of people thousands of years later to do the same thing? seems kind of rude, like everyone's saying "hey I can run as far as you WITHOUT dying", imagine dying while performing a task and a bunch of people mimic you
>>17436875He ran all the way to Sparta to ask them for help, ran all the way to Marathon, fought in the battle and then ran all the way back to Athens (with the rest of the Athenians).
>>17436875I agree, every marathon runner should be shot dead the moment they cross the finish line.
because ancient Greeks=west=good and Persian=decadent savages=bad you faggot
>>17436875Run marathon is not healthy, because often you run on the streets and that fuck really hard your joints.
>>17437008I wish Alexander had lived longer to form his Greco-Persian empire VGH
