At about this time last year, Pete Kostelnick, a winner of the Badwater 135 Ultramarathon, broke the men's U.S. transcontinental running record by completing his 3,000-mile run in 42 days--four days faster than the previous record that had stood for 36 years.

On September 11th, this year's women's winner of the Badwater 135, Sandy Villines, began her attempt to break the women's transcontinental record of 67 days. She's currently (October 31st) in central Pennsylvania, just a couple hundred miles away from the finish in New York City. (She's following the same route used by Pete Kostelnick.) Barring a disaster, she's not only going to break the record, but she's going to smash it to pieces. She's been running 50-60 miles a day, every day, since she started, so it looks like she'll finish sometime this weekend. (Saturday would be the 54th day of her record attempt, and 54 days was her goal.)

Just like Pete's record attempt, this has been amazing to follow.

In case you'd like to follow her progress, here's her tracking page: http://www.sandyacrossamerica.com/track-sandy.html

Here's her Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ultragirl52/

This video of her record attempt, posted by a newspaper in Ohio, was pretty interesting: http://m.sent-trib.com/...79812a.html?mode=jqm