Coronavirus: quarantined Hongkonger runs 5,250 laps around his living room in an indoor marathon
- Peter Cooper suffers from mental health issues following the death of his mother, so raises money with a marathon around his small flat
A Hong Kong runner was going “crazy” in quarantine after returning from the UK last Monday, so he decided to break the monotony by running a marathon around his small flat.
The task took Peter Cooper four hours 39 minutes – a total of 5,250 laps.
Last Wednesday, Cooper posted on LinkedIn that he would run an indoor marathon if he received 1,000 likes. But he only amassed around 200 so the idea was shelved.
“It was a bit spontaneous. I woke on up on Sunday with a few Whatsapps from friends asking if I was still doing it. I thought, well, why not? I went and put my running gear on and just started doing it,” said Cooper, who works for travel and tourism company Egencia.
After 10km and realising it was impossible to get up any speed and that the repetitive course was making him dizzy, he began to worry if it was a good idea. Turning every four metres in the same direction was giving him a blister too. So he changed the course to head around his table and the slight alteration made continuing possible.