3,100 Miles to Nowhere
Fourteen runners attempt to hit 3,100 miles in 52 days in an effort to do an even harder thing. (All photos by Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet for The Free Press)
Can 14 people running around in circles for 52 days straight bring about world peace? Evidently not.
Down 84th Avenue in Jamaica, Queens, around the four blocks that circle Thomas A. Edison Career and Technical Education High School, 14 people are running 3,100 miles in an attempt to do an even harder thing: transcend themselves.
“It’s a spiritual journey,” Jason Lester, the only American runner taking part, tells me during his 50th lap of the 33rd day…
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