Russian man runs around his bed for more than 10 hours during lockdown

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A Russian man in the far eastern city of Vladivostok ran circles around his bed for more than 10 hours in an effort to replicate completing a 100 kilometre ultramarathon, AP reported.

Running such a small circuit in a confined space was a challenge. ─ Photo courtesy Yakuhnyi_dmitry via AP
Running such a small circuit in a confined space was a challenge. ─ Photo courtesy Yakuhnyi_dmitry via AP

Dmitry Yakukhny spent 10 hours, 19 minutes running around a double bed in his apartment; he had planned to run the 250 kilometre Marathon des Sables in the Sahara Desert this month, but instead found himself stuck at home after the race was postponed to September because of the pandemic.

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