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In April 2018, Robert Pope, age 39, became the first person to complete the Forrest Gump run, 15,621 miles (25,140 km), 5 times across America, in 422 days of running. This remains the biggest continuous run in history in a single country and involved him becoming the first person to run across the United states three times in one year. [2]
George Adams Wyman (July 3, 1877 – November 15, 1959) was the first person to make a transcontinental crossing of the United States by motor vehicle. [1] In 1903, Wyman rode his 1902 California Motor Company motor bicycle from San Francisco to New York City in 51 days, finishing 20 days before Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson , the first person to ...
On May 20, 2012, ultrarunner John Pyle completed a run from San Francisco to Key West. His run began on February 29, 2012. [3] On August 18, 2012, ultrarunner Jennifer Bradley [4] became the second British woman to cross America on foot but the first to run across and make it in 80 days during the Run Across America on Trail 2012. [5]
He is an elite distance runner, with a number of successes at the marathon and ultramarathon distances. In 2016 he began a 422-day, 15,700-mile run comprising more than 4 complete crossings of the United States, and became the first person to trace the route run by Tom Hanks' fictional character in the film Forrest Gump.
Horatio Nelson Jackson (March 25, 1872 – January 14, 1955) was an American physician, Army medical officer, and automobile pioneer.In 1903, he and driving partner Sewall K. Crocker became the first people to drive an automobile across the United States, a road trip from San Francisco to New York City, with additional miles travelled to his home in Vermont.
On May 5, 2013, Lester ran 3,550 miles (5,710 km) across the United States, becoming the 4th fastest runner to run from San Francisco to New York City to raise money for Hurricane Sandy victims. He ran 2,600 miles (4,200 km) along The Great Wall of China in 83 days, setting a world record by becoming the first person to run the length of the ...
Fastest run across the United States, 42 days, 6 hours, 30 minutes Updated on 25 October 2016 Pete Kostelnick (born September 12, 1987) is an American ultramarathon runner most well known for his world record for fastest coast-to-coast crossing of the United States by foot, in 42 days, six hours and 30 minutes.
Katie Spotz (born 1987) is an American adventurer who became the youngest person to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean, departing from Dakar, Senegal on January 3, 2010, and landing in Guyana on March 14, 2010. [1] She was the first person to have swum the entire length of the Allegheny River in New York state and Pennsylvania. [2]