i like running in marathons.
[{"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": "user", "content": "Hi have you ever ran in a marathon?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I've never ran a marathon personally.  My dad did when I was just a little kid.  I did run track though.  How about you?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I have not ran one. did you know the marathon has an official distance of 42.195 kilometers?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I didn't know the kilometer distance.  I know it's measure as 26.2 miles in the US.  Interesting that we haven't started using the metric system.  Do you like running over 5 miles?  "}, {"role": "user", "content": "I am not a big runner myself. One cool thing i just found out is that the original modern Olympic event held the first ever official marathon in 1896"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "What a cool fact.  Crazy to think that people have been running that distance for so long.  I like the idea of summer games having multiple events like short and long distance races. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yeah! The Summer sports are my favorite to watch and play. One more fact, the first ever olympics had participants actually die from attempting to run such far distances"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I wonder if that is why they started spreading the games out every 4 years - too many competitors were dying off??"}]