NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
A marathon runner known as ‘Uncle Chen’ chain-smoked cigarettes for the entire 26-mile run – and broke his own personal record.
Chen, aged 50, completed the Xin’anjiang Marathon in Jiande, China, two weeks ago.
He came 574th out of 1,500 runners with the impressive 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 also did while lighting up, according to Canadian Running Magazine.