PBS debuted a NOVA Special Tuesday evening, entitled "Marathon Challenge." It follows a group of predominantly sedentary people through a 9-month challenge of training to run the 2007 Boston Marathon. Not surprising, it was a great program that was ironically produced by a friend of a friend. Tufts University was where the majority of the fitness testing occurred as the team was also trained by Uta Pippig and nationally-renowned nutritionist Dr. Miriam Nelson, the latter of whom I had the privilege to meet a couple years ago at a seminar.
I was shocked when I saw former New England Patriot/current WEEI Sports Radio analyst Steve DeOssie (one of the FEW guys I actually like on that station) was one of the participants- I won't ruin it by telling you how he did in the marathon. The link for his commentary can be found here:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/marathon/diar-steve.html
In case you missed Monday's airing, it will be on again the following days/times/channels (let me know what you think):
-Wednesday 10/31/07: ch. 16 (1:30 PM; 9 PM; 10 PM)
-Thursday 11/1/07: ch. 16 (2:30 PM)
-Friday 11/2/07: ch. 16 (2:30 PM)
-Sunday 11/3/07: ch. 11 (8 PM); ch. 2 (11 PM)
A couple links worth checking out that talk about the special are as follows:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/marathon/
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2007/10/30/going_the_distance_to_examine_exercise/
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