(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-10-04 16:37

Huang Li's father unties his daughter after she covered three kilometers in the Xiangjiang River on Tuesday. [Xiaoxiang Morning Herald]

He said her daughter's exercise was far easier than that of Zhang Huimin, an eight-year-old girl who ran 3,560 km from Sanya at the southern tip of the island province of Hainan to Beijing in the hottest months of July and August. Her father followed her on a motorized bicycle.

Zhang got up at 2:30 am every day to train for the run and would have had to run about 65 km a day for 55 days -- the equivalent of about one and a half marathons a day.

Her father Zhang Jianmin, a businessman, was accused of being abusive as health experts said the Beijing run would damage the girl's body and affect her growth. But he insisted the girl enjoyed running and he would do his utmost to support her, including taking part in the Olympic Games in 10 years.

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