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station i am ready for the event

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european space agency this is mission

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control houston please call station for

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how do you hear me

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good afternoon jewel this is tim on the

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international space station i hear you

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good evening

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great tim good to see you we're here in

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the tower hotel in london and uh i give

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the floor to tim machin

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tim hi our namesake here we spoke back

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in november i think it was when this was

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all announced um how's your fitness

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absolutely yes that the fitness training

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is going well preparation for the london

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marathon on sunday have gone well and

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i'm feeling good you know we have a

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great training team that support us up

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here in everything we do and that

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includes our physical condition so

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we have libby and john here of course

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team astronaut but we also have a patch

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room tim waiting to ask you a question

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so we'll we'll get straight into that um

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the photographers we would like to have

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a quick shot with you first though tim

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if you're gonna give us the older uh one

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in a million hashtag one million uh

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finger up and uh libby as well we'll

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stand in front so we can get a shot of

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thank you very much indeed gents uh and

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any more photos so that we can have good

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sound quality for the next 15-20 minutes

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thank you very much indeed tim thanks

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for your patience um and and indeed for

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that gesture um without any further ado

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let's open it up to questions and of

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course first of all it is uh my good old

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friend steve cram here in the room with

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us from bbc television the host

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broadcaster who would like to ask you a

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couple of questions i believe steve

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hi tim yes steve kram here from bbc

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you're one of tens of thousands who are

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unique way uh on sunday most of them

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you this afternoon and um yeah i've got

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a guilty admission i probably do fall

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into that same category uh i don't think

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marathon but i've certainly been putting

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well most people uh have something

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marathon before was the atmosphere and

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that i'm running and i'll be running

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the telly uh sent up to the space

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everyone down there and of course people

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paul davis from itv news um just picking

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there is it right to say that the

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lonely lonely experience for you up

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other crewmates who'll be popping into

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real lift and it'll keep me going

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good morning britain ranveer singh who

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uh hi tim it's uh ranveer singh from itv

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good morning britain the clear advantage

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you have is on sunday that you won't

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family support tim next question from

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hi to minnie stevenson from channel 5

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news now we all know that showering in

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space is challenging and we're wondering

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how you're planning to soak your muscles

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over four but somewhere in that kind of

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ballpark and i've got a you know a great

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team of people who have been helping me

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train for this marathon back at the

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european space agency and they're going

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to be monitoring me throughout the run

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setting they'll obviously be monitoring

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my cardiovascular system as well

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and really making sure that everything

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the london marathon this year and we've

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been asking them to

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put questions to you one has been

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selected which is going to be read out

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by alison hamlet allison

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hi tim allison here

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our twitter followers would like to know

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what you're going to have for breakfast

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before you take on the digital virgin

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hi allison a good question and you know

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i haven't really decided but i do need

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to decide quite soon because our

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breakfast tends to run out quite quickly

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so i might need to go in there and and

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kind of take the packets out and reserve

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them for sunday morning but maybe

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some baked beans sausage and egg fairly

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early on you certainly don't want to be

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running up here on uh a full stomach it

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needs to be at least two to three hours

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after you've eaten of course food in in

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microgravity it doesn't settle very well

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it just stays floating around in your

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stomach so i'll have an early breakfast

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uh associated press

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hi tim rob harrison the associated press

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how important has sport been to you

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while up there both in staying in touch

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with the the real world or the the world

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below you and to communicate and to

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engage with your colleagues up there i

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suppose apart from on monday watching

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those four goals go in against them

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yeah you know it's been very important

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sport in a number of different levels in

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terms of personal training you know

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working out up here is a great thing to

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do at the end of the day we we float

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around in all the tasks we do although

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we're very very busy up here we're not

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doing much physical work or hard hard

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work unless it's something like a space

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walk of course um so it's nice at the

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end of the day to be able to get on the

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treadmill to go on to our uh exercise

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machine lift weights and do our strength

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training and keep ourselves in good

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shape it's very good for the sort of

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psychological feeling as well as

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obviously maintaining our muscles and

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our bones for return to earth also i

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think it's really good in communicating

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to kids about the importance of staying

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fit and healthy and we've had a few

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really good uh challenges for example

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the mission x challenge and the space to

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earth challenge which are currently

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going on have engaged thousands of

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children around the world

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in the importance of good nutrition and

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in working out and keeping fit so i

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think all of these links to sporting

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activities and fitness and nutrition

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have been really important throughout

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um so time is short press association

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okay no press association in that case

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tim i'm going to open it up to the room

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room and we're trying to make these

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questions very concise uh any raised

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coming up tim

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hi tim it's seeing sample on the

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guardian here what's been the toughest

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part of your training for the marathon

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i in the toughest part has been getting

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used to this harness system it's not

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very comfortable to run in it's like

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running with a clumsy rucksack on it

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tugs and pulls in different uh

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directions and it causes chafing around

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the hips and around the shoulders i've

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got i've kind of worn it in now and i've

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got used to it and i've got it into a

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position where i'm happy to run the

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marathon on sunday but that's been quite

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hi there chris dennis from bbc radio

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here uh we all know that refueling

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taking on board liquid and possibly food

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during a marathon is so important

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how on earth are you going to take on

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energy gels um that i i sent up and i'll

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i'll be taking those and of course i'll

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have plenty of these things which i'm

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gonna velcro next to me just drinking

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water pouches out of a straw um and so

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that will help me keep me going

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mark but the bbc statistics you

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mentioned you'd run a marathon before

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how many marathons have you run before

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that was the only time i ran a marathon

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before in 1999 and i i did in about

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three hours just over three hours 15

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minutes um i i've always enjoyed running

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though all my life i've always enjoyed

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long distance running um but probably

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not marathon distance i like kind of

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half marathon distance i run a 10k you

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know at least two times a week if not

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three times a week normally that's my

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okay tim i'm afraid it's going to have

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to be the last question

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hi tim it's tom clark again here from

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channel 4 news

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iss missions are all about science are

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we going to learn anything is it answer

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any scientific questions your marathon

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will that contribute to

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new missions like those taking men to

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science connected to the marathon of

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course

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our physiological state though is very

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carefully monitored before flight during

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flight and after flight and the training

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that i've been doing for the marathon

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will actually contribute obviously to my

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physical physiological state for when i

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return um so although we're not kind of

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gaining any specific science based on

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the london marathon of course when i

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come back to planet earth and i go

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through my rehabilitation and we compare

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that to the kind of exercise and the

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training that i've been doing versus

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other astronauts have been doing we can

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always learn things about how to prepare

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the body better for space flight and for

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coming back to either planet earth or a

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mars gravity environment for example so

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certainly plenty of very beneficial

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tim we have about one minute to go do

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you have any particular message for the

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uh hashtag team astronaut or the tens of

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thousands running on sunday the hashtag

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yeah just to say uh you know a huge uh

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congratulations to everybody taking part

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good luck on sunday

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i'm really proud to be running up here

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on the digital virgin money london

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marathon alongside everybody who will be

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back there in london city

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hopefully enjoying the sunshine i'll be

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watching from up here and thank you to

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everybody who supported me i'm you know

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really proud to be running for the

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prince's trust and thank you to everyone

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who's going to be working on a sunday

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from the european space agency to help

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me run this race and who have supported

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station this is houston acr that

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thank you european space agency and