
A comprehensive history of the marathon from the legend of Pheidippides, the messenger who ran from Marathon to Athens in 490BC, through all of the modern Olympiads to the mass marathons of today in cities such as Boston, Berlin, Chicago, London, New York and Tokyo

A comprehensive history of marathon running from the Greek legend of Pheidippides the messenger said to have run from Marathon to Athens in 490BC, to the modern mass marathons in Boston, Berlin, Chicago, London, New York, Tokyo and other cities today.