{"id":19399,"date":"2016-04-25T23:18:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T15:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/british-astronaut-tim-peake-breaks-the-world-record-for-marathon-in-space\/"},"modified":"2016-04-25T23:18:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T15:18:21","slug":"british-astronaut-tim-peake-breaks-the-world-record-for-marathon-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/british-astronaut-tim-peake-breaks-the-world-record-for-marathon-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"British astronaut Tim Peake breaks the world record for marathon in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_245798\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-245798\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-245798 size-full-width\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/160425-peake-630x426.png\" alt=\"Tim Peake marathon\" width=\"630\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/160425-peake-630x426.png 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/160425-peake.png 743w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-245798\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">British astronaut Tim Peake runs a marathon on the International Space Station\u2019s COLBERT treadmill, with NASA astronaut Jeff Williams keeping watch. (Credit: ESA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s amazing that British astronaut Tim Peake just broke the record for a space marathon, but it\u2019s almost as amazing that there was a record to break.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe run went better than expected,\u201d Peake wrote today in a blog post after Sunday\u2019s 3:35:21 performance on the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>Peake put the traditional marathon distance of 26 miles and 385 yards on the odometer of the station\u2019s COLBERT treadmill (also known as the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill, with an acronym inspired by talk-show host Stephen Colbert). At the same time, about&nbsp;38,000 other runners were taking on&nbsp;the London Marathon.<\/p>\n<p>Peake\u2019s time wasn\u2019t close to London Marathon winner Eliud Kipchoge\u2019s mark of 2:03:05, but it was an improvement on the only other marathon known to have been run in space.<\/p>\n<p>NASA astronaut Sunita Williams\u2019 4:24 time still stands as the space marathon record for women, the Guinness Book of World Records announced in an online posting that also hailed Peake\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Tim Peake completes the London Marathon from space\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MMuibwPqqgg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cRunning the fastest marathon in space, on the only day off from his grueling schedule, is fantastic accomplishment,\u201d said Guinness\u2019 head of records, Marco Frigatti, who monitored Peake\u2019s run via a live video link at the European Space Agency\u2019s astronaut center in Cologne, Germany. \u201cTim is a true inspiration and someone we can all look up to. Literally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Peake said part of his motivation for the record-setting pace was \u2026 pain. Ten miles into the run, the harness that kept Peake planted on the treadmill in zero-G started hurting his shoulders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI needed to finish the run quicker than planned, and running faster doesn\u2019t seem to hurt the shoulders any more. \u2026 So I went to 8 mph for 10 miles, and then for the last 6.2 miles went to 8.6 mph,\u201d he wrote. \u201cMy legs paid the price, but my shoulders were grateful. It probably looked like I was having a strong run at the end, but the reality was that I couldn\u2019t wait to get out of that harness!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another motivator was the Run Social app that Peake watched as he ran. He said the computer-generated display gave him \u201can excellent view of streets of London as I would see them if I were running the real marathon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/runsocial\/status\/724190267092377600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/p>\n<p>Peake is due to finish up his six-month stint on the space station in June and return to Earth with NASA\u2019s Tim Kopra and Yuri Malenchenko.<\/p>\n<p>Another crewmate of Peake\u2019s, Jeff Williams, is in line to set a different type of record later this year. By the time Williams descends from orbit in September, he\u2019ll have put in a cumulative 534 days in space. That\u2019ll be an improvement on the U.S. record of 520 days, set by astronaut Scott Kelly just last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British astronaut Tim Peake runs a marathon on the International Space Station\u2019s COLBERT treadmill, with NASA astronaut Jeff Williams keeping watch. (Credit: ESA) It\u2019s amazing that British astronaut Tim Peake just broke the record for a space marathon, but it\u2019s almost as amazing that there was a record to break. \u201cThe run went better than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[717,5377],"class_list":["post-19399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-international-space-station","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}