Woman runs 20 marathons in 20 days doing laps of her local area in lockdown.

Elaine McAnulty is a seasoned marathon runner – having completed over 200 since she started in 2004. Missing getting her miles in during lockdown, she decided to try a new challenge – 20 marathons in 20 days (because it’s 2020). Elaine, from Banbridge, Northern Ireland, knew that marathon fundraising was important to many charities but with events cancelled due to coronavirus, they were going to miss out. She decided to use her challenge raise money for local charity Cancer Focus NI, after hearing that donations were down 80%

Starting on 19 May, she ran for around five and a half hours of running every day, finishing on Sunday 7 June. Every day, she ran a nine-mile loop three times, stopping off once on each loop to get water from her mother-in-law’s car boot. She tells Metro.co.uk ‘I’m delighted, happy and very thankful I was able to get finished without injury.’ Beauty salon owner Elaine starting running marathons back in 2004, and since then, she has completed hundreds.