To find out, Marks's team put a group of mice on an intense marathon-scale training regimen.
Zorn's four concerts in Adelaide are the first he has ever given in Australia, including a five-and-a-half hour Masada marathon whose scale and ambition feels comparable to the Old Testament on shuffle.
This was the first time North Korea had attempted to organise a marathon on this scale and it would be fair to say the preparations were a shambles.
Radcliffe is the world-record holder in the marathon, and has scaled back her training, just as she did when she was pregnant with Isla.
Paul was ready to run the 1977 New York City Marathon, and while the magnitude of the moment did not faze him — it was his fourth marathon, after all — the scale of his surroundings did.
"We believe that we need companies that are marathon runners built to scale and speed [by] entrepreneurs who want to leave a legacy," Nilekani, whose personal fortune is estimated at more than $1 billion, explained in an interview.
In contrast to the big Los Angeles event, the Big Island Marathon is a small-scale race that is rich in natural scenery.
Given the widespread appeal of marathons and their typically massive scale, expect more such cases to follow.
The marathon, at least at that large scale, remains 'recession-proof'.
But Mr. Tavernier stages the movie like a dance marathon, intelligently shifting the pace and scale of the drama.
Whether you are a college radio D.J. in town for the first time, or a jaded New Yorker with many marathons under your belt, the sheer scale of CMJ can be bewilder-ing.
