This is not even running. This piece of shit occupied the bathroom for 59 minutes while other passengers held their shit. I wish that guy was banned from flying for ten years and nobody else is posting something like this in a community for discussing running for real.
this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2026
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A Runner Completed A 5K In An Airplane Bathroom. Other Passengers Were Not Impressed.
(marathonhandbook.com)
Seems fake because the GPS trace shows all the running happening in one place. But the plane is in motion. Most of the distance traveled would come from the plane’s movement, creating a mostly straight GPS trace.
Any runner who has accidentally not stopped a run and gotten into a car has seen this happen.
I did laps once on a cruise ship at sea that had a running track. The GPS data was a series of loops, it was pretty amusing.
Likely inconvenienced a whole flight's worth of people for a stupid Strava post. This is also bogus because he couldn't have use GPS for this. The watch's accelerometer would be the only metric and those are wildly inconsistent on a good day.
Cue the Picard facepalm.