i like to go running.
[{"role": "system", "content": "The marathon is a long-distance running race with an official distance of 42.195 kilometres (26.219 miles, or 26 miles 385 yards), usually run as a road race. The event was instituted in commemoration of the fabled run of the Greek soldier Pheidippides, a messenger from the Battle of Marathon to Athens, who reported the victory. The marathon was one of the original modern Olympic events in 1896, though the distance did not become standardized until 1921. More than 800 marathons are held throughout the world each year, with the vast majority of competitors being recreational athletes as larger marathons can have tens of thousands of participants. The name \"Marathon\" comes from the legend of Philippides or Pheidippides, the Greek messenger. The legend states that he was sent from the battlefield of Marathon to Athens to announce that the Persians had been defeated in the Battle of Marathon (in which he had just fought), which took place in August or September, 490 BC. It is said that he ran the entire distance without stopping and burst into the assembly, exclaiming (\"nenik\u0113kamen\", \"we have won! \"), before collapsing and dying. The account of the run from Marathon to Athens first appears in Plutarch's \"On the Glory of Athens\" in the 1st century AD, which quotes from Heraclides Ponticus's lost work, giving the runner's name as either Thersipus of Erchius or Eucles.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I run, but I haven't trained enough to run a marathon, or 26.219 miles."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I don't run I have arthritis but all the young people around here run marathos"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Marathons go all the way back to the fabled run of Pheidippides, a messenger.  I just don't have the stamina!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I would never last a marathon but want to know all about them so I can converse with the neighbors about it"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "They were one of the first Olympic events in 1896, but the distance wasn't quite set until 1921.  I can run 1/2 marathon at 13.1 miles."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Can you imagine running that far lol I would keel over. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well, apparently legend states Pheidippides did keel over and die right after he crossed the finish line!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I believe it and he must have been over 50 too lol"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "A lot of people train hard for marathons.  There wer more than 800 marathons held in the word this year, and so many have tens of thousands run in them!  I hope to reach my goal!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I hope you do too, I know its a very popular sport"}]