Starting the day at 5:30 with 50 calls and a 10km jog
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For more than a decade Li Xiaoshuan has kept a busy morning schedule: up at 5:30, makes more than 50 calls, runs eight to 10 kilometers and then goes to work.
The busy schedule began in April 2007 after Li, who is now aged 50, put up a post which said 鈥淕et up and start running! I will wake you up!鈥 with his phone number on a local online forum. Numerous calls ensued, asking for his wake-up service.
鈥淚 started this because many people cannot keep running because they cannot get up early in the morning, so I decide to call them to wake them up. It turned out to be a very good practice,鈥 said Li, who is a civil servant in Jiaozuo City, in Henan Province.
鈥淚 found this very effective and decided to wake up more people, so I put my phone number online,鈥 he said.
The number of people who need his service soon increased rapidly, so much so that Li had to give some of the phone numbers to his fellow morning runners, who call themselves 鈥渕orning callers.鈥
Now 11 years on, Li still makes more than 50 calls each morning. For many, Li鈥檚 wake-up service has changed their lives.
鈥淚 was once overweight and always wanted to exercise but I was too lazy. But after I met one of the morning callers who promised to wake me up at 6:00 every morning, I got the confidence and kept running,鈥 said Yang Gaocai.
Yang, a Chinese doctor in his 50s in Switzerland, also comes from Jiaozuo. In 2017, he met one of morning callers when he visited his relatives. Attracted by the idea of 鈥淩aising people鈥檚 awareness of health by waking them up to run,鈥 he decided to bring the wake-up service to Switzerland.
Now 鈥渕orning callers鈥 has taken root in Switzerland with more than 60 morning runners joining the service. Almost every weekend, Yang takes them hiking in the Alps or enters them in a local marathon.
Apart from Switzerland, it has spread globally to more than 10 countries and regions.
In November 2017, more than 100 delegates from 11 provinces in China attended the first summit for 鈥渕orning callers.鈥 Delegates from the United States, Australia, France and New Zealand took part in the summit online.
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