How Marathons Work

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2018

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

You’d have to be crazy to try to run 26.2 miles in a single stretch, right? Right. But people still try it anyway. And a lot of them even survive! Find out all about the pitfalls of marathons and the obsession they can inspire in this episode.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
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0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.2	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from House Stuff Works.com.
0:41.4	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:43.0	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryan over there and there's Jerry.
0:48.1	And this is Stuff You Should Know, the hot and sweaty edition.
0:52.2	It is hot in here.
0:54.6	Although I know that you were talking about marathon running.
0:57.2	Yeah I was but it worked both ways.
0:59.9	You ever had an urge to run a marathon?
1:02.0	No.
1:03.0	Same here.
1:04.0	Not really even researching this.
1:05.5	You know I could kind of caught up when we do research and I'm like go.
1:09.5	I'm going to start growing bonsai.
1:10.5	I'm going to grow orchids.
1:11.9	I'm going to start clipping those little indentations into currency to help the blind.
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