28 Oct 2020

Melbourne man on lockdown cycles 1400km on 5km circuit

From First Up, 5:12 am on 28 October 2020

A lot of people around the planet worked on important projects during the Covid crisis. Melbourne man Ben Loke is one. He cycled 14-hundred kilometres during his city's lockdown, and that was despite having to stay within a 5-kilometre radius of his home and only being able to leave the house for an hour each day. From his house, and using a cellphone app, he mapped out 5 kilometres in all directions. He then began travelling down every marked street he could, colouring the lines in as he went. It took him 10 weeks - but he did it. Ben told our producer Matthew Theunissen he was amazed by how much there is going on in his own back yard … and how far there is to travel.