Why is a marathon 26 miles and 385 yards long?
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I don't remember exactly, but it has something to do with guy in Greece running that far to give the news that they won the battle/war.  He got to the city (Marathon possibly) said, "Nike," which means victory, and died.
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3853 feet (1175 meters)?
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Roman please! Don't confuse the poor girl any more than she already is.  Which is  it, 23 or 24?\n  \nTat, Roman was on the right track with this one.  He had the right concept, but the wrong constant in the end.  Guess that's why the Caesars no longer rule.\n\nIf Greg now runs 35 miles today, then six weeks ago he started running 35 - 2(6) or 23 miles per week.  Letting m be the mileage run per week, and n the number of weeks he runs, then we come up with this equation for the mileage Greg runs each week he is on the program.:\n\nm = 23 + 2n.\n\nWe defy the normal convention of putting the constant at the end of the equation this time, because that was the mileage Greg started with, and everything else is added to it.
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400 meters is a 1/4 mile or 5280feet divided by 1/4 which is 1320 feet. At a fast pace that should take about 2.5 to 3 minutes to walk. Fast runners run it in under a minute
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because there is a mile between each S
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Many millioms of miles.
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A furlong is 220 yards or one-eighth of a mile in length. It's derived from an old Greek measure the stadium.
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I think almost all tracks are a quarter mile. I've always had to do 4 laps when running the mile.
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5280 feet in a mile\n1760 yards in a mile
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whats considered marathon. 9 hours once
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why dont you run?  2 miles isint that far, should take like 20-min max.
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Ninety-Three million miles.
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Cutting that much off your time in 10 months may be overly optomistic\n\nTo cut 40 minutes off your time, you have to cut about 90 seconds per mile off your average pace.  \n\nAt some point in your training you should start running your target  pace over an extended distance. Maybe only 5 miles at first then extend it up to at least 10 miles and maybe 15. \n\nThe year I ran my marathon PR, in the last month before the race,  I did one workout of 15 miles, on the track, at my target pace, checking every quarter mile to make sure I was running an even pace. Note: Some people thought it was a crazy workout, but on race day I was at or better than my target pace for 26 consecutive miles.
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440 yards = one quarter of a mile.\n\n1760 yards = 1 mile.
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400 meters is about 1/4 of a mile. The Mi is short for miles 'M' for meter (metric)
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1.24 miles, a 5 k run is 3.1 miles
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If it's outside the U.S.  or in the U.S. and it was built within the last 25 years or so, it is probably 400 meters.\n\nThey haven't been building 440 yd tracks in years.\n\nOne way to tell is to look at the starting marks for the 400 meters. If it is the same place as the finish line, then it's a 400 meter track. If it is 2+ yards away from the starting line, then it's 440 yds.