Man runs marathon in apartment as China fights virus with exercise

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He jogged 66km in his apartment!

A fanatical runner jogged the equivalent of an ultra-marathon inside his small apartment as people in virus-hit China desperately try to keep fit while cooped up indoors.

But Pan Shancu has easily won the unofficial gold medal, saying he jogged 66 kilometres in a loop at home in six hours, 41 minutes. "I am in an online chat group in which people are asking what we want to do most after the epidemic," said Pan, a massage therapist and dedicated long-distance runner.- Running the stairwells -

Schools are shut and children are not exempt. They have been ordered by education authorities not to simply lounge about playing computer games and fiddling with their phones. Peter Gardner, a 61-year-old Briton hunkered down in the snow-covered northeast city of Tianjin, prefers more traditional methods.

 

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