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from a defense expert’s point of view, the legendary messenger,
Pheidippides, who ran from Marathon to Athens to announce the victory and then
collapsed and died, is not the whole story, he must have actually covered more
than 280 miles in less than 10 days before dying of exhaustion.
Modern men try to follow
Pheidippides’ footsteps by creating the 246 kilometre (152.85 miles) ultamarathon
race called Spartathlon, and the record holder is a Greek
Australian called Yiannis Kouros.
Back to our main topic
of the Athens Classic Marathon, I think the climb between the 20 km to 32 km
will be the hardest part of the race but the Kenyans may find this section just
a daily routine.
Aside from the 42 km
race, there is also the 10 km and 5 km race. Our representative office’s
Economic Director, Mr. Lo is running for the second year in the 10 km
race. My husband is running the 5 km race in a team to raise charity for
an orphanage, SOS Children’s Village in Vari. Good luck to
both of them, but with so many runners participating in this year’s event, it
will be hard to spot them at the finish line.
Back in Taiwan, the
recent damage to the Suhua Highway from typhoon could discourage some marathon runners from participating in this
year's Taroko Gorge Marathon, nevertheless a previous participant
was fascinated by the scenic route.
Other links:
The 1st image
of our beautiful earth as seen from the lunar orbit in 1968.
If you are not a lucky
tourist, you may run into a situation like striking public sector workers
from the Ministry of Culture protesting at the Acropolis.
a map of the Samaria Gorge
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