NOVA
Season 35 Episode 3 - Marathon Challenge
Can anyone run a marathon? How do you run 26.2 miles if you have trouble making it around the block? With good coaching, discipline, and lots of group support, as NOVA shows when it follows 13 generally sedentary people through a training regimen designed to prepare them for an ultimate test of stamina and endurance. Produced in cooperation with the Boston Athletic Association®, which granted NOVA unprecedented access to the 111th Boston Marathon®, and Tufts University, "Marathon Challenge" takes viewers on a unique adventure inside the human body, tracking the physiological changes that exercise can bring about.
Episodes in Season 35
Secrets of the Samurai Sword
55 min
Ghost in Your Genes
55 min
Marathon Challenge
55 min
Sputnik Declassified
55 min
Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial
55 min
Master of the Killer Ants
55 min
Missing in MiG Alley
55 min
Absolute Zero: The Conquest of Cold
55 min
Absolute Zero: The Race for Absolute Zero
55 min
Secrets of the Parthenon
55 min
Astrospies
55 min
Ape Genius
55 min
The Four Winged Dinosaur
55 min
Cracking the Maya Code
55 min
Car of the Future
55 min
A Walk to Beautiful
55 min
Lord of the Ants
55 min
