In a month and a half, he traveled nearly 5,000 km around a single cluster of New York buildings. “It was really monotonous! “Exclaimed Andrea Marcato, crossing the finish line on Sunday evening, Italian flag in hand, to the cheers of the crowd. In 42 days, 17 hours and 38 minutes, the runner circled 5,649 times around a school complex in the district of Queens for a total of 3,100 miles or 4,888 km.
The incredible sportsman, almost a 39-year-old superman, ran and walked 116km 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.
The race, completely crazy but fully internationally approved, is supposed to last another eight days, barely disrupting New York car traffic, let alone the traders, residents and some 2,000 high school students in this popular corner of Queens called Jamaica.
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