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Subject: Re: [OM] DrT's news (Mil-spec(?) Olympus)
From: "DrT \(George Themelis\)" <drt-3d@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 11:37:28 -0400
>  Hey be careful George. The first guy that ran that thing dropped dead at
> the finish line. ;^)
> Charlie

Yes, thanks for the warning Charlie! :)

Two comments regarding this:

1. This is a legend that first appeared some 500 years after the battle of 
the Marathon.  The official historian of the battle did not say anything 
about this, and he was the type of guy who loved to tell a good story.  So 
historians suspect that this is not a real story.

2. Even if it is a true that this newscarrier dropped dead after running 
from Marathon to Athens (about 26 miles) to announce "We won", the reason 
that this happened is that the previous day or two he had run from Athens to 
Sparta and back (150 miles each way) to ask the Spartans to help the 
Athenians in the battle.  So he was a bit tired, to put it mildly.

The Athens marathon is considered a difficult course.  The winner of the 
1896 "inaugural" race was a Greek and he finished around 3 hours.  My time 
goal is 3:30.

Now, I am thinking, maybe my fascination with Olympus has to do with the 
Greek origin of the name?

George 

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