A marathon runner referred to as ‘Uncle Chen’ chain-smoked cigarettes for the whole 26- mile run– and broke his own individual record.
Chen, aged 50, finished the Xin’ anjiang Marathon in Jiande, China, 2 weeks earlier.
He came 574 th out of 1,500 runners with the excellent time of 3 hours, 28 minutes and 45 seconds.
This beats his previous times of 3 hours and 36 minutes in 2018, and 3 hours and 32 minutes in 2019– which he likewise did while illuminating, according to Canadian RunningMagazine
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Within running circles he is referred to as the ‘Smoking Brother’ after doing the very same back in 2017 at an occasion in Hangzhou city.
His cigarette smoking practice has actually plainly not held the 50- year-old back, as he has actually likewise completed in ultramarathons.
As there is no recognized record of somebody finishing a marathon with a package of cigarettes, Chen might be the fastest ever runner to finish a race while chain cigarette smoking. There are presently no guidelines restricting marathon runners from cigarette smoking.
Images of Chen were published on popular Chinese social networks app Weibo, where some were annoyed he was enabled to smoke throughout the race.
One commented: ‘This type of behaviour should be banned from the race.’
Another stated: ‘I feel bad for the runners around him.’
But some discovered it funny that he had the ability to run the far away while breathing in cigarette smoke.
‘So this is what peak performance looks like,’ joked one Instagram user.
Other called him their ‘hero’, stating ‘watch him as he smokes’.
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