From Zhejiang with love: Couple runs 4,700km across China to show their devotion
Twenty-somethings complete equivalent of 112 marathons in five months, and even pick up a stray pooch along the way
A Chinese couple recently completed a 4,700km run across China, for no other reason than to show their love for one another, local media reported.
Referred to only by their nicknames, fitness fanatics Yiyi, 23, and her boyfriend Qiaobei, 22, took 150 days to finish their “Run for Love” from Hangzhou, capital of east China’s Zhejiang province, to the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, Qianjiang Evening News reported on Sunday.
By the time they arrived at Potala Palace in the centre of Lhasa last week they had run the equivalent of 112 marathons.
Yiyi said the adventure had made the couple’s love stronger than ever.
“We walked together in the dark, climbed tall mountains, got wet in the rain and got burnt by the sun,” she was quoted as saying. “We won’t break up easily after all that.”