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SPORTS: RUNNING RACES TRACK AND FIELD : SPACE EXPLORATION Out in Space, Astronaut to Run Boston Marathon March 31, 2007 IndyStar, By Jimmy Golen Associated Press * BOSTON -- Zooming through low-Earth orbit at 17,500 mph, Suni Williams completes the standard marathon distance every 5.4 seconds. "She thought it would be cool if she gave it a try," said Williams' sister, Dina Pandya, who will run the race the traditional way. "She said, 'I'll call you on Heartbreak Hill.' "

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  • SPORTS: RUNNING RACES TRACK AND FIELD : SPACE EXPLORATION Out in Space, Astronaut to Run Boston Marathon March 31, 2007 IndyStar, By Jimmy Golen Associated Press * BOSTON -- Zooming through low-Earth orbit at 17,500 mph, Suni Williams completes the standard marathon distance every 5.4 seconds. "She thought it would be cool if she gave it a try," said Williams' sister, Dina Pandya, who will run the race the traditional way. "She said, 'I'll call you on Heartbreak Hill.' "
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  • SPORTS: RUNNING RACES TRACK AND FIELD : SPACE EXPLORATION Out in Space, Astronaut to Run Boston Marathon March 31, 2007 IndyStar, By Jimmy Golen Associated Press * BOSTON -- Zooming through low-Earth orbit at 17,500 mph, Suni Williams completes the standard marathon distance every 5.4 seconds. Williams is registered for next month's Boston Marathon, even though she'll be stuck on the international space station when the rest of the field lines up for the 111th edition of the race. So the U.S. Navy commander will run the equivalent distance on a treadmill -- 210 miles above Earth, and tethered to her track by bungee cords so she doesn't float away. "She thought it would be cool if she gave it a try," said Williams' sister, Dina Pandya, who will run the race the traditional way. "She said, 'I'll call you on Heartbreak Hill.' " Another NASA astronaut, Karen Nyberg, will dodge the potholes from Hopkinton to Boston's Back Bay on April 16 along with Pandya and almost 24,000 other runners. Although the race starts at 10 a.m. EDT on Earth, Williams might not be able to run contemporaneously because her sleep schedule -- a fairly arbitrary matter in space -- is set for the arrival of a Soyuz mission. "I'm not sure the timing will be that she'll be awake," Pandya said. "They're going to be on Russian time, so they're kind of sleep-shifting." Williams qualified for the Boston race by finishing last January's Houston Marathon in 3 hours, 29 minutes, 57 seconds. Pandya didn't sweat the logistics when she signed them both up, but on Dec. 9 Williams took off on the space shuttle Discovery, and it became clear she wasn't going to make it to the starting line.
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