Unfortunately I can’t participate because I’ll be in Charlotte doing the Charlotte Half Marathon, but if you’re interested in virtually running part of the Boston Marathon with astronaut Suni Williams (who qualified in 2006 and will be running on the space station treadmill), check out this announcement from the current station flight director:

If you didn’t see it the news has hit the presses about Suni’s attempt at the Bostom Marathon. It also sounds like the Boston Marathon will do some sort of recognition of our efforts to support Suni (not sure what yet). And the number of people participating has grown – both here and in Huntsville! In addition, I have actually gotten a local store to sponsor us with some stuff to keep us alive during the grueling run! With the numbers we have we can each do a couple of laps or try teams (probably just laps best unless we have a bunch of aggressive types).
Also, some folks have told me they have a schedule constraint so they need to run early/late or other have said they are thinking of trying to run longer (including maybe the same amount Suni is) – if so please let me know so we can order the laps, otherwise it will be random.
Since I missed it in one of the later emails, I wanted to remind folks of the details:
Saturday April 14, 08:30 am Clear Lake High School on Bay Area
Rain date: Sunday April 15 time TBD

Dang! I’d be there for sure if I was in town! Maybe some of you guys will want to go though.