Marathon record holder to run three races in three weeks for charity

Veteran marathon runner Maria Polyzou, Greece's record holder, will attempt to run three entire marathons around Greece on three consecutive Sundays to promote the cause of bone marrow bank Orama Elpidas.

Sticking to her motto "Nothing Is Impossible", the runner who became the first and only woman ever to repeat the Pheidippides feat and run 520 kilometers from Athens to Sparta and back to Marathon in 2010, sets out on March 26 with the marathon at Ancient Olympia, followed by the "Alexander the Great" marathon in Thessaloniki on April 2 and concluding with the Rhodes marathon on April 9.

Polyzou told Kathimerini English Edition she will attempt "to carry the flame of hope" with her run along those 146.6 kilometers in total, having already covered over 280,000 kilometers in her career.

"In every kilometer I run I discover ever more then strength that humans have...