In order to get to and from work at the beginning and end of each week, Chongqing miner Liu Yanhua must walk a total weekly distance of 86km. In a month, Liu walks a total of 344km, and in the space of a year, the figure clocks up a whopping 4128km.
Liu states that each trip from his mine to his home in Fuhuan, near Chongqing, takes him around seven hours to complete. Liu has been making the trips since he started work at the mine in 1986, and after 26 years has probably walked in excess of 100,000km.
Due to the fact he has a wife and a kid to look after, Liu only keeps about 30 RMB of his monthly salary to himself.
Source: Ifeng
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I can't believe, cause it sounds like total nonsense to me. Take a calculator and follow me. If weekly 86km then per way it is roundabout 43km. If the guy makes that in 7 hours then he "walks" with a speed of 6.1km/h or more - continiously! That's unbelievable, if at 4km/h you automatically start to change from walking to running. So every week that guy makes two times a marathon? In an adequate time? Sorry, but I really do not believe - at least something is wrong with that calculation or the guy's data given. Anyway: respect!
Jun 26, 2013 13:08 Report Abuse
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