New York: The insane race of a super-marathon around a building for 42 days (video)

New York: The insane race of a super-marathon around a building for 42 days (video)

The race around… a block in 42 days: The Italian longest and craziest marathon runner in the world won last Sunday, covering nearly 5,000 kilometers in a month and a half around one block of New York buildings.

« It was really monotonous! Andrea Mercato crossed the finish line Sunday evening, holding the Italian flag in hand, screamed to the cheers of the crowd, after she circled a school complex in the northern New York borough of Queens 5,649 times. So we traveled 3,100 miles or 4,888 km.

With a lap of 883 metres, an average of 116 kilometers per day – that’s more than two marathons – the incredible athlete, a nearly 39-year-old Superman, has been running and walking for 42 days, 17 hours and 38 minutes. Every day from 6 am to midnight. The remaining six hours, Andrea Marcato and her six competitors – a New Zealander, Taiwanese, Japanese, Russian, Ukrainian and Slovakian – spent sleeping, healing, eating, washing and responding to natural needs, in building huts installed in the street during the ordeal.