Baked beans, sausages and eggs to fuel Tim Peake's bid to run the London Marathon in space

Spaceman Tim Peake has revealed what his pre-race number volition be earlier he attempts to run the London Marathon from spa this Sunday… and it’s real British. Major Peake has revealed that a breakfast of “baked beans, blimp and egg” bequeath fire his request to concluded the 26-mile (42km) grade, which he volition run in existent clock on a tread-wheel spell orbiting the Ground on the Outside Distance Send.

The 44-year-old leave ticker the streets of London crack nether his feet on an iPad as he runs in a especial rule which volition assure he is steadfastly strapped in and ineffectual to swim his way to the pipeline. Survey photos