Men’s Running – February 2017
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Overview: “If you want to win something, run 100 metres; if you want to experience something, run a marathon.” So spoke Czech distance legend Emil Zátopek, still the only person to have won the 5,000m, 10,000m and Marathon at a single Olympic Games.
This issue, we turn our attention to the 26.2-mile distance. And what better place to start than with Pheidippides, the legendary Greek foot messenger who inspired the modern marathon? On page 50, we tell his incredible story.
The marathon boasts many modern-day heroes, too, and we speak with two of them. Couch potato turned distance don Steve Way explains why, for him, the marathon is a magical distance, and six-time London Marathon wheelchair champ David Weir talks about what it takes to get to the top.
In the build-up to the big day, many men fall victim to ‘maranoia’: the pre-race anxiety that convinces runners they are injured, undertrained or unwell. On page 60, three MR readers and this red-faced editor recall the (entirely imagined) pre-race ailments that have threatened to derail their previous marathon attempts.
Speaking of which, I think I just felt my achilles go. Quick! Someone call a doctor…
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