Don’t stop me now!

Russell Winwood has earned the nickname COPD Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Athlete because of his incredible ability to run entire marathons despite his lungs working below 30 per cent of their capacity COPD is an incurable and progressive conditionWinwood was diagnosed in 2011 but by then the Brisbane native had already turned his life around after a stroke at age 36 He gave up smoking cut down on alcohol and took up sports Over the years he competed in various triathlonsmdash from sprint 750 m swim 20 km bike ride and 5 km run to Half Ironman 2 km swim 90 km bike ride and 21 km runmdashand even a few ultramarathons over 50 kmEverything was great until Winwood noticed that his usual training felt harder and he found it difficult to breathe A visit to the physician presented a COPD diagnosis along with the warning that his lungs were operating at less than 30 percent capacitySix months after hearing the bad news Winwood completed his first full Ironman triathlon 39 kmswim 1802 km bicycle ride and 422 km run He read about his condition and increased his cardiorespiratory fitness level ldquoI could have let this disease slowly suffocate the life out of merdquo he saysAt 56 the COPD Athlete completed Chicago Marathon in six hours 28 minutes and 33 seconds Given his condition he had to run 400m and then walk for 100m to keep his lungs from hyper inflating He has signed up for the 2023 Tokyo Marathon and hopes to compete in Berlin in the next couple of yearsExperience death aliveRussian company offers to bury you for an hour to revive your ldquowill to liverdquo and give stress therapyCurious about what it feels like to be six feet under Herersquos a way to find out A Russian company offers customers to experience being buried alive for 35 million roubles about Rs 47 lakhYou get two choices of funeral An online one or the Full ImmersionCompany founder Yakaterina Preobrazhenskaya announced the new venture earlier this week which promises to help patrons discover new talents ldquopsychic abilitiesrdquo and deal with their ldquofears and anxietiesrdquo after the funeral Preobrazhenskaya described the morbid offering as a ldquotrue symbol of fighting for yourself and your own happy futurerdquo in an Instagram post announcing the ventureThe Full Immersion will give you the experience of being buried for up to an hour It includes a full religious ceremony and a ldquomandatory revival with an allaround revived awareness of their missionrdquo which is supposed to renew a personrsquos ldquodesire to liverdquoMachine Wash HumansScience Co Ltd a Japanese technology company specialising in bathroom and kitchen innovation recently unveiled plans to make a washing machine for humans and promised to deliver it by 2025 The goal of Project Usoyaro is not to thoroughly clean the body but also provide a healing space to relax and unwind to the sound of soothing musicNot too late for loveAn 87yearold is social mediarsquos hottest groom thanks to a viral video of him tying the knot with his dead exwifersquos best friend in an overthetop wedding celebration ldquoThird timersquos a charm at 87 I guessrdquo joked the unnamed manrsquos granddaughter 22yearold Sophia Angeletakis in the caption of her TikTok post with 66 million viewsBubbly made for spaceThe Mumm Cordon Rouge Stellar is the first champagne designed specifically for space travel The bottle is half glass and features a fingercontrolled valve which releases globules of champagne spheres from which the astronaut can scoop the drink out of airLabour of pleasureHanna Faustino a 36yearold Canadian woman felt like she was ldquoclimaxingrdquo during labour and didnrsquot want the experience to end She entered the orgasmic state while giving birth to her daughter Kaiya and credits prenatal yoga classes with the pleasurable painfree process ldquoIt was really natural to push and didnrsquot feel as painfulrdquoSocial Media HowlerA fiery TikToker and momoftwo Maresa Friedman uploaded a video defending her decision to stay put in her firstclass seat despite another familyrsquos pleas to exchange seats with her While she says shersquos not a villain the video has ignited a furious debate online about the need to accommodate fellow air travellers mdash particularly those with children She said she chose those seats specifically and well in advance so that her family could sit together ldquoIrsquom sorry moms and families but as a fellow mom Irsquom not a villain for not giving up my seatrdquo she captioned the clip which has been viewed more than 14 million timesIs that how itrsquos madeQuestionable footage showing the ldquonastyrdquo process of creating McDonaldrsquos McRib burger has many customers vowing to never order the item again A video shared on Twitter showed frozen blocks of the ldquoribrdquo product slapped onto the grill Once thawed the items which had been preformed into rib like shapes were taken from the grill and placed into pullout containers filled with thick brown sauce The person who uploaded the video which has been viewed more than 12 million times suggested the ribs could barely be considered food The slabs were then placed on top of onion and pickles on a lightly toasted bun before being closed into a box and sent down a chute to fulfil an order