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Out of the 199 runners who left Los Angeles on March 4, 1928, at 3:30 p.m., only 55 runners finished on May 26, 1928. The race took 84 days to run from coast to coast. Andy Payne won the event in 573 hours, 4 minutes, 34 seconds. It was called the Bunion Derby by newspapers and was also held in 1929. The race was organized by C. C. Pyle.
Andy Payne in 1935. Andrew "Andy" Hartley Payne (November 17, 1907 – December 3, 1977) was the winner of the International Trans-Continental Footrace in 1928. [1] [2] He ran the 3,423.5 mi (5,509.6 km) route from Los Angeles to New York City, much of it along U.S. Route 66, in 573 hours, 4 minutes, 34 seconds, (23 days) averaging 6 miles per hour (9.7 km/h) over an 84-day staged run.
The media bus for the Trans-American Footrace The first " Trans-American Footrace ", nicknamed the " Bunion Derby", began in Los Angeles with 199 entrants competing to run 3,523.5 miles (5,670.5 km) by foot to New York City, with a $25,000 prize for the winner.
The Trans America Run (USA), also known as the TransAm, is the approximately 3000-mile coast-to-coast foot race across the United States. [1] TransAm has historically been run from California to New York, starting at San Francisco City Hall and ending at New York City Hall , though some runners have completed a variation starting in Los Angeles.
Many multiday races are held on tracks or measured loops, which eases provision of aid station support for runners. Stage races are the alternative; these include point to point races such as the Trans-American races, which traverse the North American continent coast to coast, and the Gobi March, [1] a seven-day journey across the Gobi desert, the Kalahari Augrabies Extreme Marathon, a 7-day ...
Andy Payne won the first 3,400-mile (5,500 km) coast-to-coast "Trans-American Footrace", arriving in New York City 84 days after starting in Los Angeles. [44] The first-ever Palestine Cup was awarded to Hapoel Allenby Tel Aviv when they defeated Maccabi Hasmonean Jerusalem 2–0.
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Month Day Event January: 13: Dr. Ernst Frederik Werner Alexanderson performs the first successful public television broadcast. The pictures, with 48 lines at 16 frames per second, are received on sets with 1.5 sq. inch screens in the homes of four General Electric executives in Schenectady, New York.