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Since Pheidippides’ times, the first Marathon runner in history, this running has become an attractive and inspiring activity to many runners around the world. A marathon is a type of endurance race that moves runners’ imagination because it defies athletes’ body limits; it also offers them a fantastic moment of joy and celebration for overcoming this challenge. All of this explains why marathon becomes a passion or sometimes an obsession for many elite and recreational athletes. This chapter explores a runners’ line of thinking; the “Forrest Gump” syndrome; physiological demands in the marathon; relevant clinical injuries in marathon such as dehydration/hyponatremia; sudden cardiac arrest; knee pain; shin pain, and runner’s toe.

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  1. Exercise and Sports Medicine, Department of Orthopedics, Rheumatology and Traumatology, School of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas – UNICAMP, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

    Sérgio Rocha Piedade

  2. Exercise and Sports Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas - UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, Brazil

    Daniel Miranda Ferreira

  3. School of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas - UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, Brazil

    Daniela Oliveira Magro

  4. Study Group of Faculty Sao Leopoldo Mandic, Campinas, SP, Brazil

    Clea Simone S. S. Colombo

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  2. Infirmerie Protestante, Caluire Lyon, France

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  3. Clínica do Dragao - Espregueira-Mendes Sports Centre, FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence, Porto, Portugal

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  5. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

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Piedade, S.R., Ferreira, D.M., Magro, D.O., Colombo, C.S.S.S. (2021). Marathon. In: Rocha Piedade, S., Neyret, P., Espregueira-Mendes, J., Cohen, M., Hutchinson, M.R. (eds) Specific Sports-Related Injuries. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66321-6_24

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