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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Training for a six-month-long trip to outer space is a grueling ordeal, and so is training for a marathon, so British astronaut Tim Peake&amp;nbsp;decided to do both at the same, as he prepares to run a simulated London Marathon while living in the International&amp;nbsp;Space Station.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Peake will be a part of the European Space Agency\u2019s Dec. 15 mission to the ISS, and while he is orbiting 249 miles above Earth on April 24 he will be running 26.2 miles on a treadmill while looking at a projection of the course that runs from Greenwich through the English Capital while participants set off on the same course.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022&amp;nbsp;81-year-old grandma beats her children in the Beer Mile\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The spaceman will be in a special harnessed treadmill for the jog, which he recognizes may hinder his performance.\r\n\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201COne of the biggest challenges I\u2019ll be facing is the harness system. In microgravity I would float if I didn\u2019t strap myself down to the treadmill so I have to wear a harness system that\u2019s a bit similar to a rucksack. It has a waistbelt and shoulder straps. That has to provide quite a bit of downforce to get my body onto the treadmill so after about 40 minutes, that gets very uncomfortable. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll be setting any personal bests. I\u2019ve set myself a goal of anywhere between 3:30 to 4 hours.\u201D\r\n\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Since the ISS&amp;nbsp;is traveling around the globe at 4.76 miles per second, he will actually be covering a full marathon every five-and-a-half seconds, which would probably be a world record were he still attached to the world.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Peake, who was also the first British man in space and completed the marathon on terra firma back in 1999, is running the \u201CDigital Virgin Money London Marathon\u201D to raise awareness for&amp;nbsp;The Prince\u2019s Trust.&amp;nbsp;He is scheduled to return to Earth in June 2016.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2013&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Brendan Maloy&lt;/em&gt;\r\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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