3-th episode of 35-th season "NOVA"

What "NOVA" 3-th episode about

Thirteen novices, ranging in age from 22 to 60, train nine months for the Boston Marathon. The group includes a former smoker, a heart-attack survivor and an overweight woman, and receives support from three-time Boston Marathon winner Uta Pippig and Donald Megerle, director of Tufts' annual President's Marathon Challenge. Included: comments from Timothy Noakes, a University of Cape Town sports-medicine expert; and Harvard bioanthropologist Daniel Lieberman.

Episode number: 3

Episode name: "Marathon Challenge"

Episode release date: 31 october 2007 at 01:00

Status: aired