Learn more from our triathlon videos. In this excerpt from his Marathon Training video, Olympian coach and author Jeff Galloway explains how this long-distance event was inspired

[leadplayer_vid id="51D670544C75E"] To comment on this video on YouTube, click here - Jeff Galloway tells the history of the Marathon In this excerpt from his Marathon Training video, Olympian coach and author Jeff Galloway explains how this long-distance event evolved from one guy in a loincloth to an international phenomenon. No other athletic event can be so precisely placed in history and it is in part that history that is celebrated every time a marathon is run.

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