Harvard physics professor Jenny Hoffman simply crushed the cross transamerican pace report, working from San Francisco to New York in 47 days, 12 hours and 35 seconds, greater than per week beneath the earlier report (54d 16h 24m, set by Sandra Villines in 2017).
Cambridge, Mass. based mostly Hoffman, 45, kicked off her practically 3,000-mile (4,828 km) run in September, aiming to common simply over 60 miles (100 km) per day. Hoffman had her sights set on the transamerican report and the ladies’s transcontinental Guinness World Document. Pending verification, she’s nailed these targets with time to spare.
The Trans American FKT (quickest identified time) has an extended and storied historical past. Earlier than Villines broke the ladies’s report (by greater than two weeks), it had not budged since 1978, with South African runner Mavis Hutchinson claiming a report 69d 2h 40m. Ultrarunner (and buddy to Hoffman) Pete Kostelnick holds the lads’s report of 42d 6h 30m, set in 2016.
“This morning I walked from New York Metropolis Corridor to the Atlantic Ocean at Coney Island,” Hoffman posted on Strava on Friday. “My daughter and I took off our sneakers and waded in. Whole mileage from sea to shining sea is 3,048 miles.”
Hoffman rowed on the varsity crew group as an undergraduate pupil at Harvard, and started to run marathons in her senior yr. From there she progressed to triathlons and ultras. She gained the nationwide title within the USA Monitor and Area Nationwide Championship 24-hour run in 2014, 2015 and 2016, and was chosen because the USATF athlete of the week in Sept. 2016. She additionally competed on the gold medal-winning group on the IAU 24-Hour world championships in Belfast in 2017.
The runner’s accomplishment is a redemption of types: she additionally made an try at securing the transamerica report in 2019, earlier than ending her run prematurely in Cleveland, Ohio, after she injured her knee. In that try, Hoffman ran 2,560 miles in 42 days, averaging 61 miles per day (six days beneath world report tempo). “By way of surgical procedure and rehab and pandemic and work and household life, I’ve dreamed each single day for 4 years about redoing and finishing this run,” Hoffman wrote on her weblog.
Hoffman shared components of her journey on her weblog, titled Run, Jenny, Run–a nod to the fictional Forrest Gump and its foremost character, who additionally made a cross-country run. Her run was additionally documented on the FKT web site, and she or he shared a day by day journal on Strava.
“It’s a wonderful nation stuffed with lovely individuals,” Hoffman mentioned post-run.”God Bless America.”
