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Collected Item: “Carpark Run”

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Carpark Run

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Strava Activity

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To return to New Zealand in late 2020 I had to complete 14 days of hotel quarantine. Luckily, my hotel had a fenced off area of the carpark that we were able to use for exercise for an hour each day. This strava activity shows a run I did around the very small carpark (one of six during the two weeks), which involved running in my mask and staying a few meters from the other people in the space. Without these bursts of activity, two weeks in a hotel room would have been much less bearable.

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MIQ, New Zealand, Exercise

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Self

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2020-12-01
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