The Astronaut was in fact somewhere over the Pacific Ocean for most of the race.
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“His latest achievement is surely his greatest – running the fastest marathon in space, on the only day-off from his gruelling schedule, is a fantastic accomplishment”.
“I don’t think you can ever do enough training for a marathon, but I’ve been putting in the miles on the T2 treadmill up here on the Space Station”, Peake said. “The one thing I won’t be able to do is look out the window at planet Earth as I run the race”.
Following through on a promise he made back in December shortly before arriving on the International Space Station, Peake donned his running gear and hopped aboard a treadmill to run the race virtually, and even provided the countdown to the start of the event for the 40,000 or so runners back on the ground in the United Kingdom capital.
But there are also some advantages, Peake told the newspaper.
This isn’t Peake’s first London Marathon, but it may be the hardest.
Although Peake will only be the second astronaut to run a marathon in space, every astronaut runs on a daily basis during their stay on the International Space Station.
REACHING for the stars – and her running shoes – is an employee of the European Space Agency as she prepares to tackle the London Marathon.
“And of course, as with all our special video routes you can also see the avatars of other people running inside your videos live”.
Margherita Buoso, head of communications at the Harwell Campus, said she was inspired to take up the 26.2 mile challenge after she spent time with British astronaut Major Tim Peake.
To counteract the effects of weightlessness, he used a harness to keep him on the running belt.
Double Olympic victor Dame Kelly Holmes has credited the music of Prince for keeping her relaxed as she took on her first marathon alongside thousands of others in a record-breaking year for the race. In 2007, the NASA astronaut Sunita Williams completed the Boston Marathon from space in just under four and a half hours. His first time was in 1999 when he finished the race in a little over three hours.
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“Running a marathon in general seems like an insane proposition, but running it in space?”
