Christopher crossing the Corinth Canal.
Nine excruciating hours to go. The pain is unbearable. His calves are killing him, and his shins are about to pop out. Having been completely drained of energy, the last 60km just seems impossible.
“Some people were walking faster than I was jogging,” reminisced David Christopher, 37, Malaysia’s only representative (earned through time-qualification) at the gruelling ultra-marathon, Spartathlon, a 246km race run over roads and mountainous terrain in a day and a half from Athens to Sparta, in Greece. (The race has it roots in the mythology of the messenger Pheidippides, a long-distance runner who undertook that journey in over a day, to seek aid in the conflict between the Greeks and the Persians in 490 BC, before the Battle of Marathon.)
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