Events

Spartathlon

January 20, 2015

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Coming September 25, 2015. TrailblazerGirls, bring on your inner Greek heroine! Imagine yourself as Pheidippides, hero of Ancient Greece and the inspiration for our modern day sporting event, the marathon. This is the Spartathlon, a 36 hour challenge that travels the 250 km distance from Athens to Sparta. It starts at the famed Acropolis and covers rough roads, steep hillsides, and elevation ranges from sea level to 1,200 meters (3,937 ft). In the past, less than one third of the runners are able to complete the race where “all finishers are presented with an olive wreath and offered a goblet of water from the Evrotas River, much as Olympian winners would have been honoured in ancient times”. A demanding race that is not for the faint-of-heart.

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