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Ex-homeless RAF veteran to run seven marathons in seven day (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Ben Constable says his "mission" is to raise £1m for the charity that helped him get back on his feet.

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[–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

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.

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