Jakob: Nine to go

So is it not a fact that the distance was altered from 25 miles/40K to 26.2!?

I just want to have a nice conversation...

malmo - I genuinely do not want to have an argument with you, just what you wrote was quite aggravating. But equally, maybe I should not have written what I did also, it was not fair to bring that into this discussion at all. So I will just leave this there... and move on to another topic! :)

I was just outside and I think I realised what actually happened.

I wrote: 'Full' marathon = 26.2 miles. Proper marathon = 25 miles/40km ;)

and added the links

Should've copied and pasted the relevant bits maybe:

Returning to the origin country of the marathon, Greece, the first competitive marathon wasn’t staged until just before the 1896 Olympics held in Athens.

The 1896 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece is considered the start of the modern era of the Olympics.

The ancient Olympic Games, which ran from 776 BCE to 393 AD, also occurred in Greece, but they did not include foot races nearly as long as the marathon.

In fact, the longest races in the ancient games were about 5 kilometers.

Interestingly, although that marathon distance is now the firmly-established 26.2-mile or 42.195-km distance, the first official marathon at the Olympics in Athens was indeed 40 kilometers, or roughly 25 miles.

Whether a true story or a legend, the Pheidippides’ fatal run from Marathon to Athens was eulogized in a poem written by Robert Browning.

Given the popularity of his works at the time, and the undeniable draw of the legend of Pheidippides’ marathon run, the idea of resurrecting the marathon distance and incorporating it into the revival of the Olympic Games was very appealing and apropos to Baron Pierre de Coubertin.

Accordingly, the first Olympic Marathon was a 40-km run from Marathon Bridge to the new stadium in Athens.
Although the first organized marathon is usually cited to be the actual running at the event at the 1896 Olympic Games, a month before the race, a small Greek Championship event was held.
In this foot race, 11 competitors ran from Marathon to Athens, completing what was then the marathon distance. Therefore, this was the first marathon ever.

The marathon distance remained at roughly 25 for the next few Olympic Games.

The marathon distance was changed to 26.2 miles for the 1908 Olympic Games in London.

I still think I was wrong to write the thing about the moderation, so I apologise for that as it was not fair.

As per an earlier post I made a few weeks ago, JI's true sweet spot to run fast will be the 5000 and 10,000. The 1500, Mile, 2000, and 3000 will be his hardest distances to run WR's, but definitely achievable. After that, the longer races will be well within his comfort zone to run WR's. His career is progressing exactly how it should with him running the shorter events as fast as he can while still competing at a very high level at the 3000 and 5000. We'll see a 10,000m debut within 2 years.