Every year, there’s at least one marathon that passes in front of my house.  It’s always kind of fun to roll out of bed, go out onto my front lawn, and just watch all the runners go by.  I cheer and I clap and I talk to the runners, and they talk back, and everyone seems to be having a lot of fun.  However, it’s also a lot of hard work, and when you’re running in a marathon as prestigious as the London Marathon, you need to be prepared.  One Brit refused to let the fact that he was in space stop him from competing.  Astronaut Tim Peake ran the London Marathon from 250 miles above Earth.

“I’m quite glad that this is happening later on in the mission so I’ve had plenty of time to get used to the T2 treadmill,” Peake said in a pre-race interview with BBC News.  “One of the biggest challenges is the harness system. Obviously, my bodyweight has to be firmly attached to the treadmill by this harness, and that can rub on the shoulders and around the waist.”

Peake also set a record.  Not only is he the first ESA astronaut from Britain to go into space, he also found a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.  He ran the 26.2 miles in 3 hours and 35 minutes, breaking the record set by NASA astronaut Sunita Williams when she ran the a space marathon in 2007 on board the International Space Station.  She ran the Boston Marathon in 4 hours and 24 minutes.

Tags: unusual athletes, iss, international space station, astronaut runs marathon in space, marathon in space, astronaut marathon, london marathon, tim peake, tim peake space marathon, guinness book of world records, esa, european space agency, british astronaut runs in london marathon from space

I’ve never had a problem eating food from a gas station.  Just two weeks ago, I ate a couple of hot dogs purchased from a gas station.  They were delicious.  That’s not the first time I’ve eaten gas station food, and I doubt it will be the last.  There’s nothing like a fun food novelty. […]

Commissioner Roger Goodell gathered 32 NFL owners for one big question.  One of the league’s most wanderlust-stricken franchises is looking to move again.  The Oakland-Los Angeles-Oakland Raiders, tired of gutting it out in a run-down stadium, were once again looking for greener pastures.  Only the Miami Dolphins refused to cooperate.  With a vote of 31-1, […]

In 2006, an injury to Dallas Cowboys starting quarterback Drew Bledsoe opened the door for an undrafted free agent by the name of Tony Romo to take the helm of America’s Team and lead the Dallas Cowboys to an early playoff exit.  Bledsoe went from starter to afterthought in a season.  Now, the circle continues […]

For 89 years, Oscars has never had a major mistake.  The last few Oscars might have had a few flubs, but at least they never got the most important category of the night wrong.  Well, that’s now changed, all thanks to OG Bonnie and Clyde legends Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway.  When Faye Dunaway called […]

Tom Brady has been wildly successful, if controversial.  He’s the first quarterback ever to win five Super Bowls and only the second player to do so after Charles Haley.  Unlike Haley, Brady won all his Super Bowls with the same team, the New England Patriots.  The only thing that seems to be able to stop […]

Ben Affleck, no matter what you might think of him, is a talented actor and director.  He’s got the goods, but he’s smart enough to know when he’s in over his head.  All along, since he took on the mantle of Batman, he’s had his eyes on writing, directing, and starring as the Caped Crusader. […]

In May, students for the for-profit American College of Education were running into some problems.  Their access to email accounts and course information was locked down by Google, who had disabled their accounts.  The reason why?  A fired IT worker for the American College of Education locked the school out of their Google cloud account. […]