Chinese runner, 50, does 42km marathon under 3 hrs 30 mins chain smoking pack of cigarettes – Mothership.SG

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A person in China has caught the eye of the operating world by finishing a marathon in below three-and-a-half hours, all whereas chain smoking.

Photographs of the 50-year-old runner made their means onto Weibo and confirmed him lighting up a cigarette mid-stride, earlier than puffing away whereas finishing the 42.195km Xin’anjiang Marathon on Nov. 6.

In line with his ending certificates, which was additionally posted to Weibo by the marathon organisers, the person — often known as Uncle Chen — completed with a timing of 03:28:45, coming in 574th out of practically 1,500 runners.

His 2022 Xin’anjiang Marathon efficiency would’ve seen Chen run at a tempo of 4:56mins per kilometre.

A “good” marathon time

To place Chen’s feat in perspective, a “good” marathon time for males was listed as 03:34:56 by Operating Stage — which derived this quantity by calculating common marathon ending occasions throughout males of all ages.

Focusing extra carefully on Chen’s friends, Operating Stage wrote that the typical time for a sophisticated runner (a racer sooner than 80 per cent of runners) on the age of fifty was 03:31:30.

Solely smokes whereas operating

It is not the primary time that Chen has garnered consideration for his nicotine-related habits.

Canadian Operating Journal reported that he’d been seen lighting up throughout the 2018 Guangzhou Marathon and the 2019 Xiamen Marathon; he clocked occasions of three:36 and three:32 respectively at these races.

The truth is, in response to Runners World, native media in China have reported that Chen solely ever smokes whereas operating.

The 50-year-old additionally seems to be an ultramarathon with on-line data purportedly displaying that Chen had run two such races in 2019 — one which was 50km and the opposite lasting for 12 hours.

Think about what he may obtain if he kicked the behavior of smoking, which has been confirmed to negatively have an effect on athletic efficiency.

Prime picture from Weibo