With no hot bath to ease his post-race muscles the astronaut will make effect with warm water and wipes,but says hes feeling helpful ahead of Sunday’s marathonYou could call it an unfair advantage. As tens of thousands of runners start the London marathon on Sunday, another competitor will take up the race unencumbered by endless queues for portable toilets, or moving at 17,500mph tall above their heads.
But there is nothing unfair about Tim Peake’s marathon plans. The British astronaut who arrived at the International Space Station four months ago will elope the 26.2 mile course on a treadmill in a cramped room that has no windows offering views on the blue-green world below. whether he gets too hot, there is no fresh air to cool him, or no water he can pour over his head.
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Source: theguardian.com