Legends of Spartathlon - Episode 9 - Ian Thomas and James Ellis
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With the global pandemic causing major running race cancellations on every continent it looked like 2020 would be the year that no-one would be up-holding the annual pilgrimage or running from the Acropolis to Sparta - just like the Spartathlon (but not the Spartathlon) Ian and James have run every Spartathlon since 2015 and with their version of SpartathlOFF they did created something wonderfully unique - whilst keeping the original dreams of John Foden alive. True LEGENDS x
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