26 miles 264 yards. Used to be exactly 26 miles, but at a previous London Olympics the course was extended to allow the young princessess watch the race.
Because it is the same distance as all other official marathon races.
he marathon is a long-distance running event with an official distance of 42.195 kilometres, thus 42.19500 kilometers = 42 195 meters
Official distance is 42.195 KM/ 26 miles 385 yards
There is no such thing as an average marathon. The official distance is 26 miles 385 yards or 42.195 kilometres (x 1000 for metres).
The long race that rhymes with "dawn" is the marathon. A marathon is a long-distance running event with an official distance of 42.195 kilometers (26.219 miles). It is named after the Battle of Marathon in ancient Greece, where Pheidippides ran from the battlefield to Athens to deliver the news of victory before collapsing and dying.
The driving distance from Marathon, FL to Homestead, FL is 80 miles.
The IAAF regards Patrick Makau's 2:03:38 (Berlin 2011) to be the official men's World Record. However the fastest marathon ever (2:03:02) was run by Geoffrey Mutai (Boston 2011).
it is 26miles and its 26 miles because thats what a marathon is.
A marathon's distance is 42.195 km which would be 42195meters.
Yes, there is a half marathon. A half marathon is about 13.1 miles long, half the distance of a full marathon, 26.2 miles.
There is no official term. The nearest you could get would be "bikeathon" and to be roughly equivalent to a marathon, it would need to be at least 100 miles or 160km. A marathon is a running race, named after the distance reputedly run after a battle in ancient Greece to deliver a message to Athens that the battle at marathon (25 miles/40kms away) had been won. The race was introduced for the first time at the modern olympics and then standardised to 26 miles & 385 yards (42.195km) after 1921. The term marathon is often misappropriated to uses other than running, to indicate anything long or demanding of endurance. All of these other uses, including biking, have no standard definition and are slang or common usages. A bike marathon has no official name because there is no bike marathon distance.
MARATHON, STD DISTANCE 26 MILES 386 YARDS