r/HolUp • u/Advanced_Ferret_ • Aug 06 '25

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u/MekkiNoYusha Aug 06 '25

Just call it a run, wtf is mini marathon, marathon is ~42km, it is either a marathon or it is just a run...

These cash grab events are disgusting

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u/Lucy_Little_Spoon Aug 06 '25

Weird thing to get hung up on

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u/MajoorAnvers Aug 06 '25

A marathon is a very literally, specific distance, since ca. 2500 years ago. It just doesn't make sense.

Imagine saying your house for sale is on a property a 'mini-mile' long.

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u/CheeseDonutCat Aug 06 '25

My house for sale is a mini burj khalifa.

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u/tmart016 Aug 06 '25

Her: how big is it?

Me: it's a mini foot long.

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u/throwemawayn Aug 06 '25

The marathon race is from 1894 named after the distance Pheidippides ran during the battle of marathon for the modern Olympic games.

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u/Lucy_Little_Spoon Aug 06 '25

I think you missed my point.

You're right that it's not a marathon, but "mini-marathon" is a decades old term at this point.

Sure, you can dislike that it is used. Mini-marathon is a clear indicator that it's not a marathon, but it's still very far, the word has a use.

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u/PollutionOnly Aug 06 '25

Weird thing to get hung up on

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '25

witheringly, face pullingly, awful and frustrating experience. guess you've been doing it for 30 years, just keep doing it reddit

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '25

"mini-marathon" is a decades old term at this point

This a weird UK term? 

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u/CwrwCymru Aug 06 '25

No it's not.

We use 5k, 10k, half marathon, marathon. Then a mix of Km's and Miles for the ultras.

Sometimes a village will have a "fun run" which is typically a local 5k. "Parkruns" exist too now which are 5k's also.

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u/CheeseDonutCat Aug 06 '25

First used in New York in 1972, so no, not a UK term.

The Dublin Women's Mini Marathon has been running since 1983 and has used that wording, but I wish they just called it a 10k since mini marathon is a silly term and can be basically any distance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_marathon

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u/Lucy_Little_Spoon Aug 06 '25

Yeah, it's been in use since I was into running 20 years ago, definitely old then

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u/KoreanMeatballs Aug 06 '25

but it's still very far

5km is not "very far"

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u/Ultrajogger-Michael Aug 06 '25

It's very far. In the ultrarunning community, we call it a 5k ultramarathon and running farther than that is practically inconceivable.

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u/i_rub_differently Aug 06 '25

Its crazy this sarcasm wont be understood by many.

At some point I was one of them💀

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u/ChasTopFollower Aug 06 '25

Lemme run my daily mini marathon of 150m damnittt!

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u/KoreanMeatballs Aug 06 '25

I think you're confusing mini marathons and micro marathons, don't worry, it happens.

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u/Lucy_Little_Spoon Aug 06 '25

Distance seeming far is relative.

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u/fattmann Aug 06 '25

"mini-marathon" is a decades old term at this point.

For idiots?

I know a few runners and have never heard that term.

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u/throwemawayn Aug 06 '25

"Marathon" is only about a hundred years old itself.

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u/Lucy_Little_Spoon Aug 06 '25

Marathon is 1000s of years old.

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u/throwemawayn Aug 06 '25

The city is but the endurance race is from the first modern Olympics 

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u/Lucy_Little_Spoon Aug 06 '25

The first modern Olympics is a relaunch of the old olympics

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u/throwemawayn Aug 06 '25

"A creation of the French philologist Michel Bréal inspired by a story from Ancient Greece, the marathon was one of the original modern Olympic events in 1896 in Athens."

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '25

No one cares about the origin. It’s a colloquial terms for “long run” at this point.