What is "marathoners"

Usage examples of "marathoners".

It was boring for them all, as none were marathoners, and the steps of the leading runners were endlessly the same.

A lot of them slowed their pace to get cold drinks, and some ran through pre-spotted water showers to cool off, though the TV commentators said that these had the effect of tightening up the leg muscles and were therefore not really a good thing for marathoners to do.

Many marathoners ran twenty-six miles at slightly over five minutes to the mile, but they weren't packing along forty pounds of gear on their backs.

A six-minutes-to-the-mile pace is just a little slower than the professional marathoners go.

Now I know that Olympic runners break the four-minute mile, and that marathoners maintain the five-minute mile indefinitely, and a healthy young man can do a mile in six minutes.