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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a marathon and a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when listing activities or events, particularly when referring to a marathon and another related event or activity.
Example: "I signed up for a marathon and a half-marathon this year to challenge myself."
Alternatives: "a marathon and another event" or "a marathon and a race".
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Started in 2011, the race accepted only 750 combined entrants for a marathon and a half-marathon.
How does one fashion a schedule in a sport in which every tournament is like a 1,500-meter 1,500-meterseason is a marunhon and a profeverynal career can seasonecades?
Moving from a half marathon and a master's to a marathon and a PhD is taking things to a whole new level, demanding more time, discipline and endurance than anything I've ever done before.
"I told Barry just this morning that I've seen lawyers do marathons, and I've seen lawyers do triathlons, but I have never seen a lawyer do a marathon and a triathlon on the same day," said Phil Beck, another member of the legal team.
It involved cycling 180 kilometres (112 miles), combined with a marathon and a four-kilometre (2.5-mile) swim.
For Chief Executive Frederick A. "Fritz" Henderson, the task feels like running a marathon and a sprint simultaneously.
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Alistair is determined to become the first man to defend his Olympic title but he has fresh challenges on his mind, too: doing a marathon and an ironman.
Compiling a bucket list is both an exercise in wishful self-improvement — learning to speak French, training to run a marathon — and an expression of to-hell-with-it cupidity.
"We are in a marathon and not a sprint".
This will be a marathon and not a sprint.
Sarah had also run a marathon and was a divemaster.
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