if I stopped, the race was over.

My legs would never start.

So I was trying to make eye contact with the driver,

make sure he wasn't going to hit me.

And I finally decided that what I was going to do

is that if he pulled out in front of me,

I was just going to hit the side of the truck to stop myself. Episode 15, Matt Kelly

This is the Adventure Sports Podcast.

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Get out there and have some fun.

The word marathon stems from the tale of a Greek messenger named Fidipides.

The story goes that Fidipides ran 150 miles in two days from Athens to Sparta in order to enlist help from the Spartans after the Persians landed in Marathon Greece.

Following the Battle of Marathon, Fidipides ran 25 miles from the battlefield in Marathon to Athens,

with the report of victory only to collapse and die after delivering his message.

Our guest today is Matt Kelly.

Matt is the founder and former race director for the Durango Marathon in the Durango Double.

He holds a personal best of two hours,

34 minutes, and 55 seconds in the marathon, and one hour, 13 minutes, 32 seconds in the half

marathon. Matt, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. Thanks, Travis. It's great to be here. And

hearing your quote reminded me of a quip that Frank Shorter made.

I believe he said, why the hell didn't Fidipides die at 15 miles?

Yeah, that would have been a lot easier on it, right?

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