Sydney Marathons debut as Major is timed perfectly with Australias running boom | Elise Beacom

Event will be biggest country has seen as 35,000 marathon runners share the roads with superstars Eliud Kipchoge and Sifan HassanMarathons are selling out like Taylor Swift tickets. Running is in vogue, and many newer runners are seeking the shortest route from couch to marathon - a distance once considered superhuman. Now, amid the proliferation of training shared online, and the Ned Brockman mentality that extreme equals better, running 42.2km has never felt so achievable.As Sydney Marathon ge...