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    A marathon is an endurance (忍耐力) race which covers 26 miles, 385 yards (42.2 km). It is a race for the strong. To run this race, one must have great endurance.

    The history of this tiring race dates back to a war. The war was between the Persian Empire and the Greeks. It was in the year 490 BC. The war took place on a plain (平原) called Marathon.

    The Greeks won. After the war, a man was chosen to announce that the Persians had been defeated (打败) in the battle. The man ran from the battlefield of Marathon to Athens. He ran at top speed without stopping to rest. When he reached Athens, he told the news and died.

    In 1896, the marathon race was included in the first modern Olympic Games in Athens. The race was to remember the runner. It was 24.85 miles (40 km), the distance that the man had been asked to run to give his news.

    All marathons today are a little longer than the one in the first modern Olympic Games. Distance was added at the 1908 O1ympid Games in London, The distance was changed to 26.22 miles to cover the ground from Windsor Castle to White City stadium, with the 2.2 miles added on so the race could finish in front of the Royal Box.

    How do you spend your spare time? There will be different answers to it. Most people in Poland (波兰) have their own ways of spending free time. Sometimes they just want to take a rest, but they try to do something more pleasant most of the time. They have many different hobbies, which help them to get away their everyday problems and spend their free time happily.

Many Polish (波兰的) people like traveling. They always look for new places that they have never been to and add new and exciting experiences to their journey. Some of them like to climb mountains, others like to go to a sea or a lake to swim, because these can make them get exercise and are good for their health.

    Many Polish people also like to do sports in their free time. They are usually crazy about football, and football is regarded as the Polish national sport. Many football fans may support a certain team, so they go to watch every match of the team they support, and they buy many things that have any relation with the team. Watching sport and doing it both are good ways to relax.

In addition, doctors say that doing sports is very good for health. Many people in town, especially young men, often go to the gym to attend the exercise classes to keep it.

    Besides these ways, Polish people have many other ways to spend their free time. And they really enjoy their free time.

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