<p>As a New Yorker, I found this interesting when it happened last week.</p>
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Two college friends broke an obscure record Thursday by traversing the entire New York City subway system in 24 hours and 2 minutes. </p>
<p>“We did it, but now we need to find a bathroom,” Don Badaczewski told reporters crowding around him on the subway platform after he and Matt Green completed their commuter odyssey at 6:06 a.m. </p>
<p>The previous record for passing through all 468 subway stations was 25 hours, 11 minutes. </p>
<p>Badaczewski and Green, former University of Virginia roommates, spent five months studying train maps and schedules and scoping out stations to plan their route. </p>
<p>Green, 26, and Badaczewski, 24, have a history of endurance stunts. Green once rode a bus for 52 hours straight, and when a taco-eating contest between the two ended in a tie, they settled it with a mile-long barefoot race. </p>
<p>The old subway record was set in 1998 by Michael Falsetta and Salvatore Babones. </p>
<p>This kind of subterranean endurance challenge dates back to the 1950s, according to published reports.
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<p><a href=“http://www.amny.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--subwaychallenge0824aug24,0,6122716.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire[/url] ”>http://www.amny.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--subwaychallenge0824aug24,0,6122716.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire</a></p> ;
phdinee
September 5, 2006, 1:37pm
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<p>Very interesting!
<p>well, the one with the crazy last name has a facebook, so you could ask him. or just read on his mini feed lol. crazy facebook stalker features.</p>