24 hours 2 minutes
- Passing all Stations
Matt
Green and Don Badaczewski met at the University of Virginia where
they immediately began embarking on such challenges as a taco-eating
contest which ended in a tie at 18 and was then settled by running
a mile barefoot. Green also has a history of endurance
rides, once staying on a bus for 52 hours straight. 1
Green, a 26-year old
transportation engineer, and Badaczewski, a 24-year old law
student, both like beef jerky, and brought a supply to sustain
themselves during the journey, along with a few bottles of water. 2
They
spent five months pouring over subway maps to find the route with
the fewest transfers, scouting out stations to plan their route
and practicing sprinting through stations to make transfers.
They had to fine-tune their strategy the week before to account
for service changes the day of their attempt. 3
Although they will
carry cellphones, they will forgo their iPods as "too
cushy," and spend their time completing the voluminous logs
of their trip. One of the biggest challenges, both riders
said , may be enduring a ride of more than 24 hours with access
only to the subway system’s limited number of public bathrooms. 4
They started by
boarding the S line at the Rockaway Park-Beach 116th Street
station in Queens. Their goal was to pass through more than
400 stations, before arriving at the Pelham Bay Park station in
the Bronx on the 6 line in less than 25 hours, 11 minutes and 8
seconds. In the end, they topped the record for passing all
stations previously held by Michael Falsetta and
Salvatore Babones by one
hour and 9 minutes.
(1)
from the NY
Daily News
(2)
from Reuters
(3)
from Metro
NY
(4)
from the NY
Times
Photo by Talisman
Brolin from Green
and Badaczewski's MySpace Blog
