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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.
Forrest Gump is a 1994 American comedy-drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis. An adaptation of the 1986 novel by Winston Groom, the screenplay of the film is written by Eric Roth. It stars Tom Hanks in the title role, alongside Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, and Sally Field in lead roles.
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.
Running lessons from Forrest Gump. Both Hodin and Huber describe him as "the Forrest Gump of marathons," a reference to the Tom Hanks character who ran for more than three years straight in the ...
In Forrest Gump (1994), Forrest ends his cross-country run here. He is running north on U.S. Route 163 before he stops running. Lightning Jack (1994) Paramount Pictures 1994 film Pontiac Moon featured this location as part of the roadtrip. The Sunchaser (1996) features the site; Wild America (1997) features scenes of Monument Valley.
In the film, Forrest Gump is interviewed by television reporters about his cross-country running trip while crossing the bridge. [ 4 ] In January 2023, the bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places , under its original name, Lady's Island Bridge.
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Goodale Park is a public park in the Victorian Village area of Columbus, Ohio.It was donated to the city in 1851 by Lincoln Goodale.For a few months during the Civil War, it was a staging area for Union troops known as Camp Jackson. [3]