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  • χαιρέτε νικὠμεν
    χαιρέτε νικὠμεν means "Greetings, we've won" and are the words attributed by Plutarch and Lucian to the runner who brought news of victory at the battle of Marathon to the people of Athens. They both wrote some six hundred years after the battle and the story is unlikely. Herodotus, who was closer to events, writes of a runner called Pheidippides who ran from Athens to Sparta to ask for help before the battle, but says nothing of a run to tell the Athenians of the victory. "So, when Persia was dust, all cried, 'To Akropolis!
    Run, Pheidippides, one race more! the meed is thy due!
    "Athens is saved, thank Pan," go shout!' He flung down his shield
    Ran like fire once more: and the space 'twixt the Fennel-field
    And Athens was stubble again, a field which a fire runs through,
    Till in he broke: 'Rejoice, we conquer!' Like wine through clay,
    Joy in his blood bursting his heart, he died--the bliss!"

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September 22, 2007

Another week's running

There are some runs I haven't recorded, on Wednesday a Garmin-less cow-run and on Friday a run round Stanmer Park, both with Claire before she leaves for Germany for the Berlin marathon.
I don't have precise data for either of these, but Wednesday must have been around five miles and Friday three.
Today I ran nineteen miles, up to High and Over, down into the Cuckmere valley, to Litington and then through Friston Forest, to West Dean, Jevington and up Bourne Hill, so at the half-way point I had a fine view of Eastbourne and Pevensey Bay. It was hard, though I saw at the end that I had done 3318 ft of ascents; this compares with 2007 ft last Sunday and 2326 ft for the Fake Jog Shop Jog.
Time: 3:51:50
Distance: 19.05
Pace: (best 8.11)

Total this week: 33.75
Five weeks till the Beachy Head Marathon

Posted on September 22, 2007 at 09:32 PM |

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