Thanks to JJ, I learnt about the Nova Marathon Challenge: 13 sedentary novices who trained to run the Boston Marathon over 40 weeks.
Among the runners were a man who survived a heart attack, a HIV positive guy, a breast cancer survivor, a "situationally overweight" (70 pounds overweight) lady with irregular heartbeat, a CEO father of 5 undergoing a messy divorce, a doctor with stress fracture and a Type 1 Diabetic working mother of two. All but one completed the full Boston Marathon in April 2007.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/marathon/
Watch the videos. The scientific segments are really informative. Be inspired.
In addition, the Youtube preview is at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHuYNb5Rnxg
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