Picture of the Day: Seoul Marathon

19-year-old Lloyd Martin set a Guinness World Record at the 2024 London Marathon

https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a60593143/london-marathon-lloyd-martin-record/

Worth noting that the runner of the first marathon died soon after:

The name Marathon comes from the legend of Pheidippides, the Greek messenger. The legend states that while he was taking part in the Battle of Marathon, which took place in August or September 490 BC, he witnessed a Persian vessel changing its course towards Athens as the battle was near a victorious end for the Greek army. He interpreted this as an attempt by the defeated Persians to rush into the city to claim a false victory or simply raid, hence claiming their authority over Greek land. It was said that he ran the entire distance to Athens without stopping, discarding his weapons and even clothes to lose as much weight as possible, and burst into the assembly, exclaiming “we have won!”, before collapsing and dying…

Runners are still dropping dead, though this fellow died in a car accident, not from a terrorist bomb like that in Boston:

Kelvin Kiptum Cheruiyot (2 December 1999 – 11 February 2024) was a Kenyan long-distance runner who currently holds the marathon world record (2:00:35). As of 2024, he holds three of the seven fastest marathons in history, and was ranked first among the world’s men’s marathon runners at the time of his death.

It isn’t really a game for children.