Balcony marathon couple want to create a global event
South Africans Collin and Hilda Allin do 2,100 laps of their 20m-long balcony in Dubai to ward off isolation blues
29 March 2020 - 21:05
Dubai — An SA couple who ran a marathon on the balcony of their Dubai apartment and streamed it online plan to take the project global to help people shake off the coronavirus blues.
Collin and Hilda Allin covered the 42.2km by running more than 2,100 laps of their 20m long balcony from dawn on Saturday. A stopwatch provided by the couple shows they covered the distance in 5hr 9 min 39 sec...
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