And as stadiums go this one has real history, where the locals have been coming for 2,500 years for fun and Games in Rhodes.
And apologies here for breaking with tradition and keeping my kit on at the Rhodes Acropolis.
The original Halieia athletes going commando for the 600ft race in honour of Helios the Sun God.
There was, of course, a time as a Scottish Cross Country champion when I held high hopes of an Olympic future.
But while I puff and pant for picture purposes a local hero barely breaks a sweat circling the stadium.
Unfortunately for Dimitrios there are but one or two in the stone seats today where once 30,000 cheered on their heroes.
The future champions
The Stadium and the Acropolis complex on the outskirts of Rhodes is packed today with future champions.
With the Acropolis the place where Rhodian families come to play on a Sunday.
With kids kicking a ball around while dads dribble a basketball, mums chat around prams and grandparents sit and smoke in the cafe.
We bus it to the Acropolis from Rhodes Town harbour only to do a double take when it circled around past our hotel, the Amphitryon.
You can too take a hop-on, hop-off coach which will cost you €20 of today’s coin which will also take you to the Old Town.
But better still you could show your athleticism by walking the couple of kilometres to the Acropolis.
The stuff of Legends
It feels right to spend our last full day cosplaying Ancient Rhodian heroes in the iconic tree-lined Stadium.
Although we are not quite finished with Rhodes yet as we will spend the evening back in Rhodes Old Town with the Legends of today.
But you will just have to wait for the next instalment of our Rhodes odyssey for that.
Your friendly neighbourhood Bandanaman is travelling with loveholidays and EasyJet from Edinburgh.
And staying at the Amphitryon City Hotel, 800m from the Old Town.
All for £1,028 for two, B&B and evening meals, for a week with airport transfers.
