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Magic in misery': the ultrarunners tackling the Spartathlon, the world's toughest race | The Sunday Times Magazine | The Sunday Times
Ultrarunning History - Spartathlon (256 km/153 miles) runs this week for the 38th year in Greece🇬🇷 on an ancient route run by Pheidippides in 490 B.C. In 1982, John Foden and other
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