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The challenge for Williams required her to alter her sleep schedule a bit from the normal pattern of Russian time they keep in the ISS. Regular exercise is important to astronauts on the space station as weightlessness has a decremental effect on bone density and muscle mass. Suni Williams ran the marathon in space while her sister and fellow astronaut Karen Nyberg were getting soggy in the rain on the marathon course here in Massachusetts.

..Running the Marathon on the International Space Station. Apparently you don't have to be in Boston on Patriots Day to run in the Marathon. For the last three years the Marathon has been run in Iraq with support from the Boston Athletic Association (or the BAA - the organization that runs the marathon). This year they'll be sending trophies and a finish line tape to Kosovo for a similar endeavor. The furthest competitor this year*...