It is isn't it? Is it? What is that .2 all about?
It is isn't it? Is it? What is that .2 all about?
google is your friend.
yummmmm wrote:
google is your friend.
I looked it up moron. On google, Bing, Lycos, Hotbot, Webcrawler. The answer is elusive.
So let me guess, you didn't try Wikipedia because you heard it was a socialist conspiracy or something?
Roadsofpapa wrote:
It is isn't it? Is it? What is that .2 all about?
It is not .2, it is .21875
Enough of this jibba jabba. You people are stalling because you don't know the answer to my query.
Believe not those websites and various "facts" unveiled by search engines
It's not fact until you read in on the front page of letsrun.com.
The marathon IS measured in full miles. The first 26 anyways. The last .2 is not measured in full miles but is measured in .2 mile increments.
I hope that hopes.
7/10, solid effort
Thon wrote:
7/10, solid effort
did you do a recovery run on 7/11?
The marathon is 46,145 yards.
/thread
If the American education system is as awful as the British comprehensive, I would imagine that few young Americans are aware of Pheidippides and the significance of Marathon, both his run and the battle.
The original authentic distance is 24.85 miles.
harrr wrote:
Thon wrote:7/10, solid effort
did you do a recovery run on 7/11?
Good stuff.
ansewerer of the unanswerable wrote:
The marathon IS measured in full miles. The first 26 anyways. The last .2 is not measured in full miles but is measured in .2 mile increments.
I hope that hopes.
No it is NOT measured in full miles. It is measured in metric miles. 26 times one mile of meters (or is it one meter of miles - I can never remember). They add the 0.2 because they don't want anyone to get confused.
Also, I heard the queen had something to do with it.
fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu wrote:
The marathon is 46,145 yards.
/thread
that equals 26 miles, 385 yards which I believe is the "official distance" that always gets screwed up because of errors in conversion and in measuring protocol...
Anyone can run 26 miles. It is the last .2 miles that define a true man (or woman).
Or 42,194.988 meters (sometimes rounded to 42,195 meters).
marathon= 42,194.99 metres
and the Short Course Prevention Factor must be added on. But am clueless as to what the SCPF is nowadays.
The rather complex series of events that led to the modern marathon distance…
The standard distance for the marathon race was set by the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) in May 1921 at a distance of 42.195 kilometres (26 miles 385 yards). Rule 240 of their Competition Rules specifies the metric version of this distance.
This seemingly arbitrary distance was that adopted for the marathon at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.
At a meeting of the International Olympic Committee in The Hague in May 1907 it was agreed with the British Olympic Association that the 1908 Olympics would include a marathon of about 25 miles or 40 kilometres.
In November 1907 a route of about that distance was published in the newspapers, starting at Windsor Castle and finishing at the Olympic Stadium, the Great White City Stadium in Shepherd's Bush in London.
There were protests about the final few miles because of tram-lines and cobbles, so the route was revised to cross the rough ground of Wormwood Scrubs.
This lengthened the route, as did plans to make the start 700 yards (640 m) from Queen Victoria's statue by Windsor Castle, and it was decided to fix the distance at 26 miles (42 km) to the stadium, plus a lap of the track (586 yards, 2 feet), using the Royal Entrance as the marathon tunnel, and finishing in front of the Royal Box.
For the official Trial Marathon on 25 April 1908, organized by the Polytechnic Harriers, the start was on ‘The Long Walk’ – a magnificent avenue leading up to Windsor Castle in the grounds of Windsor Great Park.
For the Olympic Marathon itself the start was on the private East Terrace of Windsor Castle, with the permission of King Edward VII, so that the public would not interfere with the start.
The Princess of Wales and her children drove from their home at Frogmore on the far side of Windsor Great Park to watch the start of the race.
Shortly before the Games opened it was realized that the Royal Entrance could not be used as the marathon entrance—it was raised to permit easy descent by the royal party from their carriages, and did not open onto the track—so an alternative entrance was chosen, diagonally opposite the Royal Box.
A special path was made just outside the Franco British Exhibition ground so that the distance to the stadium remained 26 miles.
The finishing line was left unchanged, but in order that the spectators, including Queen Alexandra, could have the best view of the final yards, the direction of running was changed to "right-hand inside" (i.e. clockwise).
This meant the distance in the stadium was shortened to 385 yards, and the total distance became 26 miles 385 yards (42.195 km).
I blame sea monkeys.