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This is episode 68 and I am your humble host Karen and we are your great greeting group who

graze on griddle cakes and grits.

I'm Colin.

I'm Dana and I'm Chris.

We're going to start the show with a chain of um actually.

Yes, we have two um actually

Oh, a double header.

I recently talked about the marathon.

And we got a lot of a lot of Facebook messages and tweets and emails

about a controversial media history of standardizing the length of marathons.

And I only briefly talked about commemorating the Greek event, but there's a whole bunch of

Olympic hoopla.

In that episode, I mentioned that the marathon actually came from an historic event

or maybe it was legendary or mythical or fabled event where a Greek soldier during the Battle of Marathon was sent to run all the way

to Athens to deliver the news that the Persians have been defeated.

We may have left you with the impression that the length of the running was based on, you know, the length, the distance between those two cities.

It's not the exact length. It's just commemorating that run.

When it was reinstated as an Olympic event, the distance sort of varied from Olympics to

Olympics for a while and...

Some were 22. Yes, some were 24.8. Some were 26.01 and they varied. But as some of our listeners wrote in and pointed out, there is the fun part. It was in the

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