This child runs 40 miles a day - don’t you feel lazy?

An 8-year-old girl in China has recently completed a 3550-km (2200-mi) run from Hainan to Beijing, accompanied by her father on a bicycle alongside the little super-athlete. that might seem like an amazing feat but it’s just another day for Zhang Huimin, who wakes up at 2:30AM most mornings to run the equivalent of one-and-a-half marathons — 64 km, or 40 miles in total. The latest run was in an attempt to get noticed by the Olympics — the girl wants to compete in the 2016 Olympics, when she will be 17.

Many folks around the world are calling that child abuse — what do you think? Her father, who is separated from her

disapproving mother, says that Zhang Huimin likes running, and he denies that he is forcing her to run. Still, I think that amount of running is inhumane and unhealthy.

Original post by Martha Edwards

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