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He ran a marathon and died.
Today, millions run marathons and are fine.
Some do it while wearing T-Rex costumes.
You may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like
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Is that available at any Spirit Halloween?
Is that the nutsack mascot from the Postal games?
Pheidippides didn't run a marathon. He ran 260 km over two days and died. A modern marathon is "only" 42.195 km.
You'd probably die as well without training for said marathon, which that poor man didn't have the luxury of doing.
Oh man, are you selling it short. He was a professional running-courier, so we can assume he was well-seasoned for the activity, BUT
If I'm reading this correctly, he ran 350 miles in around a week or less? That's insane.
Famously ancient historians never embellished anything especially when it comes to a story with national significance
Ok, yeah that's insane. No wonder the poor guy dropped from exhaustion
Probably kidney failure
Happy Cakeday! 🍰🎂
Kidney failure? Was he chugging wine and mead the whole way, or is that just a result of extreme dehydration?
Muscles break down kidneys get overwhelmed and go into failure. Sometimes (rarely) ultra marathoners will need dialysis and they are running a much shorter distance.
Ahh! Gotcha. Fair enough. I suppose that's actually useful for me to know, thanks!
No have horse?
Humans can actually outrun a horse under certain conditions, notably hot temperatures and extreme distances.
But like if he could have ridden a horse and then ran and found a new horse ya know? Maybe he could have lived
Funnily enough, a pony train has been the solution many times throughout history. A messenger would ride one horse to exhaustion, jump on another at a depot, and continue.