The Spartathlon 153 mile Ultra Marathon! Athens to Sparta, Greece in 36 hours or less!

The Spartathlon is a race held in Greece. The race probably has more historical meaning and history than any other sporting event in the history of mankind. Athens and Greece as a nation was the first modern society. The foundations of modern science, government, mathematics, astronomy, literature and more were all largely developed in ancient Greece. In 490 BC Ancient Athens was under siege. Democracy and the principles of how our modern society exists today were being threatened to extinction