Astronaut Runs Marathon In Space
There are those uber-fit people out there who will be able to boast soon that they completed the 2007 Boston Marathon on April 16th but, how many of them will be able to say they did it from space?
You read correctly. Astronaut, Sunita Williams is currently on-board the International Space Station but has every intention of running the 26.2 mile race on a treadmill, 200 miles above our heads. She even has her bib number [14,000] having qualified for the marathon by posting a time of 3:29:57s in Houston last year.
The little problem of operating in zero-g will be handled by a specially designed treadmill with bungee cords. However, since she is on a six-month stint in space, it will be summer before she gets her medal.
If this doesn’t get her in the Guinness Book Of Records….-Martin Lynch
