Why do people run the marathon? I ran one to find out.

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all right we're on our way right guys all three hands up the the marathon generates millions of dollars in Charity donations every year just the one charity I ran for Fred's team raised over $5 million for cancer research all right we just started just often times when you're talking about the marathon people ask why is it 26.2 mies there's a good reason for that it's the distance between marathon in Greece and Athens there was a battle that the Greeks fought against the Persians in Marathon and a guy named fodes who ran all the way back to Athens to bring the news unfortunately for those of us running the marathon fi's died at the end of this run regardless the popularity of marathon running has exploded we're going to get some high five from children okay woohoo so I wanted to know why do people run the marathon I've just completed a world record for most marathons across seven continents in one year having around 160 marathons finishing up in April at Boston so I do it basically to inspire the Next Generation and in memory of my mom and St mom the both lost cancer he what's your name try Mar CI Australia we're about 9 miles in my shins are starting to feel it but you know the energy in the crowd is probably going to power us through my name is Janet and I'm from queen born and raised in Queen I love to run I've been running since I was 18 my name is Carrie I'm from Chicago and I run to stay in [Music] [Applause] shape my name is think I don't cuz I can where are you from I'm from Philadelphia there's also an entire constellation of health reasons to run regularly which marathon training makes you do we're between mile 20 and 21 this is the part of the race that is the absolute shest everything my name is Salo and where are you from I'm from Argentina and where do you run I just wanted to run a marathon and if I going to go you go big you going to make it yeah I'm going make so why did I run the marathon I wanted to see if I could do it I wanted to see if it would bring my wife Amy and I even closer and I wanted to know if the regular training would help improve my mood like several studies suggested in my it [Music] did