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Listen fam, Pheidippides is THE OG runner. He ran 300 miles on a round trip Athens - Sparta fun run to ask for help from the persian invasion. Then right after that, Ran to the battle feild, and saw some serious shit. Aka Greek phalanx kicking the crap out of the Persian war machine. Not to make light tho, likely 10s of thousands died in hand to hand combat, and he witnessed the end of the battle. Homie ran home to tell everyone that we won. Then died... In front of the whole city-state. Not a lot of people think about the word epic and what that word actually means. Pheidippides' story is carved in stone. There have been statues of him essentially since his death, and still, there are statues of him today, 2500 years later. And literally hundreds of thousands of people run races in his honor monthly. Hell, he made running cool. Fucking change my mind. Oh yeah, his last words inspired the brand name NIKE, maybe the most famous running shoe company? Pre Fontaine is also a G, but ain't got near the prowess.
Bro's got nothing on Cliff Young
A potato farmer, aged 61, he turned up in overalls and work boots to the Sydney to Melbourne ultramarathon, 875km.
I mean I exaggerate the Pheidippes is the OG runner yeah, but this guys kinda tough imo as well, haha.
That inspired a thing called "the Young shuffle". Kinda like the Fosbury Flop.
Love that he hooked up the other runners with some Skrill. "Sorry I whooped your ass in this race, here's a couple Gs for your trouble"
Probably has some Canadian blood or something.
"Sorry I was so much better, I know you guys worked hard, here you go I think you deserve this more than me..."
His last words were "wassup, we won"
This is what I come to the comments for.
Greek history is soooo much more entertaining when you make Athens the Crips and Sparta the Bloods