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10 things no-one tells you about running a marathon
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I did a marathon. # 4 is partially correct. I found I had muscles I did not know I had, and those were sore.
AND it often has a universally disastrous effect on the lower GI tract. All that carbo loading gets unloaded around mile 20. Reflect on that next time you’re stuck behind a smug Prius driver with his 26.2 sticker(s).
They left out that the first one was an ad for Nike and the guy who ran it died.
True story.
He ran 26.2 miles, yelled Nike! and died.
Shoot, it was a more than that. From Wikipedia.
He ran about 240 km (150 mi) in two days. He then ran the 40 km (25 mi) from the battlefield near Marathon to Athens to announce the Greek victory over Persia in the Battle of Marathon (490 BC) with the word νικῶμεν (nikomen[8] “We win!”), as stated by Lucian chairete, nikomen (“hail, we are the winners”)[9] and then collapsed and died.