Welcome to Mile 037 of A Mile with Me. Join me in Runnymede near Windsor, a pleasant meadow on the side of the River Thames where in 1215, King John under pressure and needing the support of his barons, signed over over to them significant rights.

These included the concept of habeas corpus or the ability to appeal against unlawful imprisonment. It also enshrined the concept of sentence proportionate to offence and led to trial by Jury.

It is seen as one of the most important documents in the English speaking world and key elements are in the constitution of Commonwealth nations and that of the United States and the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

At Runnymede there is a large memorial to President Kennedy and a monument to Magna Carta put up by the American Bar Association.

We also run in Windsor Great Park and visit the fishing village of Beer. Hear from Tineke as she talks about the Run for Phil and the Extra Mile Podcast.

Join runners across the planet on The Extra Mile podcast: http://theextramilepodcast.blogspot.com/ Find out more about Tineke’s run: http://www.justgiving.com/CSCRunForPhil Runnymede: http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-runnymede/w-runnymede-history.htm

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The Athens Classic Marathon follows the route between the town of Marathon itself and Athens in Greece.

In 490BC a great battle took place on the Plains of Marathon that altered world history. The Athenians defeated a much larger Persian army in a real turning point. If they had lost then there would have been no Classical Greek civilisation and western world as we know it.

According to legend, a messenger called Phedippides ran the 26 miles to Athens to proclaim the victory and the Marathon run was born!

Its a packed edition - I am in Marathon for the opening ceremony of the Athens Classic Marathon and the start of the celebrations of the 2500th anniversary year in 2010. We hear from the Mayor of Marathon is a special wish exclusively recorded for the listeners to this podcast. We also catch up with a few of the participants and hear the sounds of Athens and my explorations, plus of course my report from the race.

The chap above is Gregoris Lambrakis, a Greek athlete and democracy campaigner who started a Peace Marathon along the same route in 1963. He was assassinated shortly afterwards but through his actions inspired modern democracy in Greece. We hear his inspirational story as we explore the terrific new running musuem at Marathon.

http://www.athensclassicmarathon.gr/  site of the Athens Classic Marathon http://www.mongoliamarathon.com/    the first Mongolian International Marathon

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Join us as we run the Dream Inspires Oxford run as part of the Worldwide Festival of Races.

A group of UK podcasters, bloggers and runners came together on 11th October to run our WWFOR together amongst the “dreaming spires” of Oxford University.

It was a fantastic adventure!  Listen to the two A Mile with Me episodes (33 and 34) and join us in spirit.

Also check out the Runners Roundtable http://www.runnersroundtable.com/ for the special edition where we discussed this run with many of the particpants. Krister also put out an excellent edition of his Running The Narrow Path show (http://www.runningthenarrowpath.blogspot.com/) which was a documentary of the event and his experiences doing it.

I’d love you to mail me chopper@amilewith.me.uk if you have any comments on any episode or alternatively you can find me @SteveChopper on Twitter

I am proud to support the Run Net Community which aims to provide a link into the world of independent running podcasts, blogs and other ways the global online running community motivate each other. Find out more at http://www.runnetcommunity.org/

If you are interrestd in gettin involved in a similar Dream Inspires event next year wherever you live, contact me by mail and we will try and make it happen!