Just keep moving

From Reuters


THE longest foot race in the world is 4988 kilometres, long enough to stretch from New York to Los Angeles. But those who run it choose a different route: they circle one city block in Queens for two months straight.

The athletes lap their block more than 5000 times. They wear out 12 pairs of shoes. They run more than two marathons daily. In the heat and rain of a New York summer, they stop for virtually nothing except to sleep between midnight and 6am.

"I think this is what they're looking for: the feeling that you're living life for real," runner Pranab Vladovic said of himself and 13 other athletes now competing in the 10th annual Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race in Jamaica, Queens.