Edinburgh Marathon
The Edinburgh Marathon Festival has been held each year in Edinburgh, Scotland since 2003, usually in May. It is run over the traditional distance of 42.195 kilometres (26.219 mi).
Read more about Edinburgh Marathon: History, List of Winners: Men's Elite Race, List of Winners: Women's Elite Race, Criticism
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“The mountains look on Marathon—
And Marathon looks on the sea;
And musing there an hour alone,
I dreamed that Greece might still be free;
For standing on the Persians’ grave,
I could not deem myself a slave.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)