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station commander steve swanson has

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something special on his plan for this

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upcoming weekend he's part of a

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six-person team that will compete in the

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wild west relay race this friday and

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saturday covering the 200 miles from

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fort collins colorado to steamboat

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springs which is his hometown to find

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out how a person overcomes a difference

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of 260 miles in elevation to run a relay

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race i am joined by another member of

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that relay team astronaut suni williams

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who once ran the boston marathon while

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serving on board the international space

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hi sunny welcome and thank you for

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joining us today thanks amiko it's good

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to be here it's great to have you so um

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you are a two-time resident of the space

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station

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expedition 14-15 and that is actually

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the one that you back in 2007 that you

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ran the boston marathon correct that's

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correct yeah yeah and then also again

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more recently the expedition 3233

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mission so we're very pleased to have

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you here today it's great to be here

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like i said in supporting our guys on

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orbit great so first of all explain to

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me a little about what this race is yeah

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um we did actually the pretty much the

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same team that's going to run it this

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year ran it about five years ago

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and what we did we got together in fort

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collins the day before got our plans set

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together and

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the race goes for about 200 miles like

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you said from fort collins to steamboat

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up and over a pass

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so it's a pretty

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rigorous run and not everybody runs

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their whole leg at once what we do is we

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six people running six different times

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um and so we do a relay race one after

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another so you end up running six legs

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that makes it about 30 miles for each

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person so that way everybody gets a

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little bit in the daytime in the morning

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everyone gets a little evening everyone

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gets a little um in the middle of the

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night and then and that is all pretty

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much uphill to get over the pass and

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then the next

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as the night continues you pretty much

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are going down the path down from the

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hill to steamboat so everybody gets

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about six legs into like i said add up

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to about 30 miles that sounds great so

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30 miles at least it's not going to be

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here in texas heat thank god yes i was

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practicing while i've been back here in

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the united states for the last couple

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weeks and it's pretty hot here um i got

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my uh eyes in the sky over there in

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colorado they said the weather's a

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little bit cooler and a little bit nicer

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but we do have the hills to contend with

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we'll get well i want to talk about some

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of that too um let's first talk about so

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has swanson he's actually done this

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before correct he's competed in this

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race yeah steve's done it i think three

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times we did it together once like i

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said i think it was like five years ago

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and the team that we had got together is

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pretty much all back together with the

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exception of one switch out um but

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everybody's ready to go and to support

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him up in space uh with this event and

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so who is on the team so the the captain

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is a guy named brett eggleston he's a

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long-time friend of swaney um he lives

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in fort collins but i think they met

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each other knew each other uh from

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carrie steve's sister-in-law she's a

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really great runner a lot of fun

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dottie metcalf lindberger who's a

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astronaut and just recently left

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core but she's coming back for the race

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another guy our new guy tim flynn he's

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joining in and then myself and of course

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steve from on orbit okay sounds great

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well it sounds like you guys are going

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to have a good time so

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tell me now because you were talking

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about the relay and how you're going to

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go back and forth how exactly is that

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going to work how are you passing the

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baton to swanson who's on the space

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station obviously there's going to be

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some challenge yeah this is going to be

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a little bit tricky he's leg number six

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so we don't really have to think about

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it for a little while i guess we're all

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good procrastinators we have five legs

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to get through before we have to worry

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about it but in all seriousness we're

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going to have a guy who's like the relay

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point of contact because if you can

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imagine the race route that i'm telling

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you about doesn't always have good calm

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connections so we'll have a point of

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contact that we'll be able to text to

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keep up to date what how everybody's

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running and what their times are and so

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then that person can get relay through

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mission control up to steve so get him

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ready to go and start the race uh his

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run and then when he finishes um he just

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needs to make a call down and that

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reverse communication

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stretch will go back to our relay team

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and then the number one guy will start

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i have one thing to add for the last run

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though um not that we're gonna not pay

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attention to steve's time because

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steve's time is our official time but uh

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we uh have a bunch of folks of course

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he's from steamboat so uh there's been a

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call out to all his family and friends

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to come and run the last leg with and

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wow that's amazing that sounds like a

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good time thing um so

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very interesting so you kind of talked

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about some the hills and so i do want to

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talk about that because you did the most

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the boston marathon and there were some

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changes obviously terrain

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tell me how it is running on the

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treadmill so the treadmill doesn't have

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the ability to change the terrain we

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we have the ability to speed it up and

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you also have the ability to to add more

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resistance on the equipment that you're

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wearing that's holding you down to the

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treadmill so luckily we don't have to go

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uphill but uh on the treadmill like i

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said it does have its um

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little problems or pains or you know

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like just like every run that you do

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there's some parts that get a little

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annoying and this would probably be the

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the harness that steve's gonna wear and

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depending on how much weight

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quote-unquote he chooses to uh to run

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with by using the um like the bungee

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system so so he can increase his

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resistance on himself just to to run and

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then he can also increase the speed

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which i think will probably be the more

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uh accurate way that he can um make

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himself work a little bit harder as

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though he's going up the hills the speed

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treadmill my sister actually ran it and

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at the same time on earth and i was

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feeling a little bit bad because that

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run also does have some hills and i

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have any bad weather up there um so but

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like i said it has its own pains and

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problems running on a treadmill first of

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all and secondly uh tied to the

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treadmill itself sure absolutely fun

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well so i know that you're a a big

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proponent of um fitness can you just

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explain to me i know obviously it's very

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important to all of our bodies here on

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earth but explain why it's so important

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for you guys when you're flying in space

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yeah so there's a lot of things that

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space is wonderful it's great you could

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fly around you're like a bird you know

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you're like a fish zooming around in

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there but that also has a toll on our

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physical bodies for a number of

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different things radiation but also

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when it comes to physical fitness the

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reason we do physical fitness is for

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maintaining bone density and muscle mass

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because of course you don't use your

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legs while you're up in space you don't

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have to walk around like you do here

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which is an automatic load on your bones

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and your muscles and so up in space the

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only way to simulate that is getting on

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the treadmill or for cardiovascular on

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the bike or we have the advanced

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resistive exercise

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equipment to do

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simulated weight lifting and that's how

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we are able to come back essentially in

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normal shape and able to walk around

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when we get back here so on in space

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it's it's absolutely necessary every day

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to work out because every moment that

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you're in space you're losing bone

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density and muscle mass you can't stop

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doing that because you're in

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microgravity so your body's not

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stimulated like it is here on earth with

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gravity so it's really important to do

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that up in space and i think one of the

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reasons like i did the marathon and

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swanee is interested in doing this race

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is because it taps into another group of

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people on earth for one awareness of

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people that are in space and what kind

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of research that we're doing that's

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going to potentially help us with

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combating osteoporosis because

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essentially that's what we have in space

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problems that humans encounter here on

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earth how can we

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help fix that or up there so that's part

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of the reason we're doing all these

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experiments but also just to highlight

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physical fitness it's fun it's

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interesting

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you can do it you know a bunch of

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different ways you know getting out in

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the morning and running isn't always fun

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but when you have a relay team that

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you're doing with it with then it makes

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it a lot more fun motivating and it's a

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it's a team effort absolutely well i am

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very glad that you were able to come out

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and and it's great to see you support

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swaney as you are and uh best of luck to

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you and the team thank you very much