Ben Constable says his "mission" is to raise £1m for the charity that helped him get back on his feet.

Ben Constable says his “mission” is to raise £1m for the charity that helped him get back on his feet.

  • ALoafOfBread@lemmy.mlEnglish
    9·
    1 month ago

    Pheidippides must be fucking PISSED in Hades getting styled on non-stop.

    Pheidippides: runs a marathon once. fucking dies

    Sebastian Sawe: " I did it in less than 2 hours"

    Richard Whitehead: “I did it in less than 3 hours and I don’t have legs”

    Some guy: “I can probably do it 7 times in a week”

    • Legianus@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      I guess he is fine. He first ran to Sparta (sth. like 240 km; known as the Sparthalon nowadays) then fought in the battle at Marathon and then ran to inform of the victory (~42 km; Marathon race today). He did all of this is rapid succession, then, understandably, died of exhaustion.

      I quickly checked, it even says so in the Wikipedia article that you linked.