Donovan plans to stage the first race at edge of space, ascending in a hydrogen balloon to 100,000 feet. As a boy Richard Donovan passed some of his days in the library by the courthouse in Galway city, lost in books about space and the planets and the stars. When he slept his dreams took him into orbit, high above the world. See https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-race-for-space-sky-is-truly-the-limit-for-richard-donovan-an-ultra-runner-from-mervue-bj3fnwsvn
