Space Cover #429: Marathon in spaceScience has demonstrated that human beings need to practice exercise in their longs stays of weightlessness.
For this reason all astronauts in ISS practice daily around 2 hours of physical exercise in order to avoid to reduce and maintain their bone and muscular mass, especially from their legs.
Being an astronaut is not the only profession that needs to practice exercise to develop it. Many other professions requires a good wealthy and to be trained: police, firefighters, military, rescue personal…
Often some of these people are participating in racing courses, ironman, marathon, etc…but the astronauts, can they participate?
In both above covers it is possible to see how the female astronaut Sunita Williams runs the Boston marathon 2007 on ISS. Although her personal score has not relevance at all, she is the first competitor in a marathon from Earth orbit.
Sunita Williams Boston marathon 2007 marks the 40 anniversary of first woman participating in a marathon: Katherine Switzer, first woman in running the Boston marathon 1967.