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Trans America Run

coast-to-coast foot race across the United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 9, 2024
Entity authorityQ125895308 ↗
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The Trans America Run (USA), also known as the TransAm, is the approximately 3000-mile coast-to-coast foot race across the United States. TransAm has historically been run from California to New York, starting at San Francisco City Hall and ending at New York City Hall, though some runners have completed a variation starting in Los Angeles. The world record for the TransAm was set in October 2016 by Pete Kostelnick who finished in 42 days, 6 hours, and 30 minutes.

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“Trans America Run” enters the record as coast-to-coast foot race across the United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Trans, America and coast-to-coast can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Trans America Run” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.