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New York: the mad race of an ultra-marathoner around a block for 42 days (video)

The race around … a block in 42 days: an Italian ultra-marathoner won the longest and craziest walking event in the world last Sunday, covering nearly 5,000 km in a month and a half around a single group of New York apartment buildings.

« It was really monotonous! », Exclaimed Andrea Marcato while crossing the finish line on Sunday evening, Italian flag in hand, to the cheers of the crowd, after having circled 5,649 times around a school complex in the district of Queens in the north of New York. And therefore to have walked 3,100 miles or 4,888 km.

With a lap of 883 meters, an average of 116 km per day – that’s more than two marathons – the incredible sportsman, almost a 39-year-old superman, ran and walked for 42 days, 17 hours and 38 minutes. Every day from 6 a.m. to midnight. The remaining six hours, Andrea Marcato and her six competitors – a New Zealander, a Taiwanese, a Japanese, a Russian, a Ukrainian and a Slovak – spent them sleeping, healing, eating, washing, responding to natural needs, in construction huts installed in the street during the ordeal.