"The rest of his pedigree is full of mile-and-a-half horses and his damsire is an obvious influence for stamina.
And so the creator of Broken Embraces and Bad Education offers us his latest film – a screwball comedy set in a transatlantic jet, full of mile-high blow jobs and dancing cabin stewards camping it up to the Pointer Sisters (their signature song "I'm So Excited" provides the English title – in Spanish, it's called Los amantes pasajeros).
Whether he's banging a baseball against the wall of an isolation cell to keep his sanity or gunning his motorcycle in full view of miles of barbed wire, McQueen is casual, pragmatic, and disrespectful but still very much a hero.
So off I went on my first ride which had a charge (not full) of 230 miles.
The narrow shoulders of busy highways are full of people walking miles for water from wells or food from fields.
It's crammed full of other things" — miles of computer cable, an electronic classroom, wireless routers, and scores of tables and carrels ready for student laptops.
A farmer was recently on the road to the abattoir when he changed direction and drove his trailer full of lambs 200 miles to an animal sanctuary instead.
At dawn on Tuesday, there was a distress call from a fishing boat full of migrants 80 miles (130km) south-east of the Calabrian coast on the Italian mainland.
He hired Calvo, who describes himself as sustainable mobility consultant, to design a hugely ambitious network of completely segregated lanes, a full 80km (50 miles) of which would be completed in one go.
Those feeling inspired from walking this stretch of the wall can tackle the full 84 miles of the Hadrian's Wall Path, running from Wallsend to Bowness-on-Solway.
Yet as Curtis Wilkie, a retired journalist who teaches here, readily acknowledged, the woods only 10 miles away are "full of unreconstructed rednecks," and 25 miles to the west lies the largely black Mississippi Delta, an area of wretched, unrelenting poverty.
