Athens Marathon Nov. 09, 2008

Julio (JJ) travel to run marathons around the world! He is in a quest to look for the best marathons each year. This year was Athens Greece.

According to legend, the Athens Marathon covers the same ground that the Athenian messenger Phiedippides ran when he brought news of victory from the battlefield of Marathon almost 2,500 years ago. The finish line is in Athens' magnificent Olympic Stadium, the birthplace of the modern Olympic Games. It is recognized as the original marathon course and it was the same course used in the 2004 Olympics held in Athens

"The Greece man from Wld Mountain Runner"