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3,100 Miles to Nowhere
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.
By Suzy Weiss
10.21.23 — Culture and Ideas
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3,100 Miles to Nowhere

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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Suzy Weiss
Suzy Weiss is a reporter and producer for The Free Press. Before that, she worked as a features reporter at the New York Post. There, she covered the internet, culture, dating, dieting, technology, and Gen Z. Her work has also appeared in Tablet, the New York Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among others.
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