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At the feet of King Leonidas, the finish line at Sparta

I have been running marathons for ten years. But when I couldn’t run faster than 3 hours 12 minutes, I decided to see how far I could run before I keeled over. Turns out pretty far. In September 2009 I took on the Spartathlon – 152 miles from Athens to Sparta. Non stop. Why We Run is about that journey and about why we run at all.