you are going to run a marathon, why not go to Greece and run the original course taken by Pheidippides from Marathon to Athens way back in 490 BC? This is what Bruce Munro did last October, seen here near the end of his ordeal in the outskirts of Athens. He raised well over £1,000, with money still coming in, for Salcombe lifeboat station in sponsorship—no mean achievement for one competitor—and, he said, he met some tremendous people on the way..