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.

NOVA Season 35 Episodes...

• s35e01 - Secrets Of The Samurai Sword
• s35e02 - Ghost In Your Genes
• s35e03 - Marathon Challenge
• s35e04 - Sputnik Declassified
• s35e05 - Judgment Day: Intelligent Design On Trial
• s35e06 - Master Of The Killer Ants
• s35e07 - Missing In MiG Alley
• s35e08 - Absolute Zero: The Conquest Of Cold (1)
• s35e09 - Absolute Zero: The Race For Absolute Zero (2)
• s35e10 - Secrets Of The Parthenon
• s35e11 - Astrospies
• s35e12 - Ape Genius
• s35e13 - The Four-Winged Dinosaur
• s35e14 - Cracking The Maya Code
• s35e15 - Car Of The Future
• s35e16 - A Walk To Beautiful
• s35e17 - Lord Of The Ants

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