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Marathon Runner at Starlight Tower
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Maria Simos of Starlight Tower and
Marathon runner at the Pittsburg
Stadium after finishing the Marathon proudly wearing
her new medal and about to have a cup of well
deserved water!
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There is a multiple
Marathon runner resident at Starlight Tower that not all of you
are aware of. Well, she is not a full time resident but more of
a frequent visitor resident and she is Maria Simos at #908 our
daughter of who's achievements on the ultimate endurance sport
of Marathon running we are profoundly proud. Maria has run three
Marathons! In Chicago, Pittsburg and Richmond! And two of them
at the same year!
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First Marathon
10/13, 2002
Chicago Marathon her time: 4:08:26 net time: 4:01:47
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Second Marathon
5/4, 2003 Pittsburgh Marathon her time 3:54:49 net time
3:54:14
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Third Marathon
11/15, 2003 Richmond Marathon her time 4:34:48 net time
4:32:28
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HER FIRST MARATHON |
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On picture above Maria Simos of
Starlight Tower and Marathon runner at photo finish
taken from the commemorative plaque with medal of
the Chicago Marathon 2002 (see plaque bellow).
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10/13, 2002
Chicago Marathon her time: 4:08:26 net time: 4:01:47
(see Marathon results)
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HER SECOND
MARATHON |
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Maria Simos of Starlight Tower
and Marathon runner on picture above taken at mile 21
of the Pittsburg Marathon 2003
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5/4, 2003 Pittsburgh Marathon her time 3:54:49 net time
3:54:14
(see Marathon results)
Maria Simos of Starlight Tower
and Marathon runner in picture admires her new
Marathon medal won in Pittsburg 2003.
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HER THIRD
MARATHON |
Maria Simos of Starlight Tower and
Marathon runner at the Richmond Marathon. |
11/15 2003 Richmond Marathon her time 4:34:48 net time
4:32:28
(see Marathon results).
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BRIEF MARATHON HISTORY
To refresh your
memory, Marathon is a long distance road running event of 42.195
kilometers or 26 miles and 385 yards to be exact.
The name Marathon
belongs to a small Greek town that became famous with "The
Battle of Marathon" in 490 BC where a small number of Greek
soldiers were able to hold and defeat the overwhelmingly
powerful Persian army of King Darius I of Persia who wanted to
conquer the remainder of Greece and incorporate it to his
Persian Empire and thus securing his western borders. But as
always the Greeks fought not like heroes but as heroes fight
like Greeks according to Sir Winston Churchill in the Second
World War hence they won the battle. Immediately they send a
soldier back to Athens to announce the winning outcome of the
battle. The name of this soldier was Pheidippides. He run
barefoot and at full gear the distance from Marathon to Athens
at full speed and without stopping and upon his arrival he was
able to utter one word only "NENIKIKAMEN" (We Won), and then he
dropped dead!
Map of the Battle
of Marathon, 490 BC taken from the
United
States Military Academy at West Point.
The Greek wings
(blue) envelop the Persian wings (red) while their
strategically-thinned centre filled the gap made between them.
The First Modern
Olympics took place in Athens Greece April 10 1896 and are
officially known as the I Olympiad. These games were the first
Olympic Games since the Roman emperor Theodosius I banned the
Ancient Olympic Games in 393 as part of the Christian campaign
against paganism!
The Marathon run
during the first Olympic Games was won by a Greek shepherd
Spyros Louis who finished the
race at the record time of 2 hours 58 minutes and 50 seconds. He
stopped only once at his uncle's house to have a glass of wine!
Since then an expression was developed in Greece where to
emphasize that someone is really fast you say:
Egeine LouiV (He became
Louis).
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providing useful information to the public about local
attractions events accommodations in our town St Pete
Beach Pinellas County Florida and additionally serves as
private meeting place for the owners.
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