- a variation of Pheidippides.
Phidippides
Britishnoun
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If you don't want to wind up like Phidippides, have your physician check you out thoroughly for pre-existing conditions before engaging in exercise that will stress your heart, Davenport said.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 9, 2011
Phidippides is said to have run in about three hours the 25 miles back to Athens to deliver the news.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 9, 2011
Phidippides knuckled down well to beat Quantitativeeasing in a sprint finish last time, but he would have been no better suited by the lack of early pace than the horses he beat and can improve.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 8, 2010
Johnny Hayes, in 1908, ran the most exciting marathon since the one in 480 B.C., whereby Phidippides carried the news of a battle over cliff roads to Sparta.
From Time Magazine Archive
The tradition, that Phidippides ran from Athens to Sparta, one hundred and twenty miles, in two days, seems to us Americans as mythical as the Golden Fleece.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 05, March, 1858 by Various
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