[LukeL]

I would bet so too. The human body is not designed to run 26.2 miles in under 4 hours.

[Carriage Hill]

The first marathon runner, Philippides, dropped dead, too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheidippides

[Lazamataz]

The human body is not designed to run 26.2 miles in under 4 hours.

I might agree, except I realized that the human body is actually designed to travel 300 hours in just under 4 hours.

[BeadCounter]

In this case it is a “half-marathon”, 13.1 miles, it does make me wonder if people might be trying to set personal records too much so.