Overview
- Suni Williams completed the 130th Boston Marathon in 5:52:49 and said the cheering crowds kept her moving.
- The Boston Athletic Association presented her with its Patriot Award, which honors patriotic, philanthropic and inspirational figures.
- Her return to competition followed a mission that stretched to 286 days on the International Space Station after thruster failures turned a one-week test flight into a long stay.
- She restarted ground training in November after reconditioning to gravity, noting that microgravity weakened her hip flexors and basic leg drive.
- The run tied back to her 2007 Boston Marathon completed on an ISS treadmill and capped a career with 608 days in space, a women’s record 62 hours of spacewalks and retirement from NASA in 2025.