Did you know that literally marathons save lives? (Thanks, Ryan)
Bluestocking Runner's blog, which I just came across today, has an excellent Jane Austin quote, which Nick and I were able to place immediately despite a minor modification ("walk" to "run").
"Why must she be scampering about the country... ? ... To walk three, or four, or five miles, or whatever it is... what could she mean by it? It seems to me to show an abominable sort of conceited independence, a most country town indifference to decorum."
Thus the Bingley sisters were talking about Elizabeth after she has walked to Netherfield to see ailing Jane.
