pheidippides
Battle of marathon
A marathon is 26 miles.
Nike
king Darius wanted to take over the whole of Greece. So Athens sent Pheidippides to Sparta to ask could you help us? and they said sorry no , we're in the middle of our festivle. So Pheidippides went back to Athens to say they can't do it. He went back to Sparta to say we won and then he died.