• PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    A marathon is not a speed race. It is a 42 km endurance race, similar to endurance hunters would have done on, say, the plains of Africa.

    The vast majority of people today would be unable to finish even a half marathon without collapsing due to utter and complete exhaustion.