This Endurance Runner Set a World Record After Running 100 Miles Around Central Park
Robbie Belanger completed 16 laps of a 6.1km track in a single day during the Central Park Loop Challenge. Apr 28, 2021
Ultrarunner Robbie Belanger did the seemingly impossible in 2019, when he ran 3,175 miles across the United States in 75 days. Most recently, the ultrarunner teamed up with Ten Thousand and the Feats of Strength series when planning his next athletic endeavour: setting a new world record for the fastest known time (FKT) in the Central Park Loop Challenge.
A well-known event among distance runners, the challenge consists of running as many laps of the park s 6.1km track as possible during its daily opening hours of 6:05 a.m. and 12:55 a.m. The previous record was 11 laps of the park, comprising 67.1 miles, completed in a time of 14 hours. Belanger s goal was to surpass this by completing 17 laps more than 100 miles during the 18 hours and 50 minutes that the park is op
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How the Head of a Vaccine Research Clinic Spends Her Sundays
Dr. Stephanie Sterling, an infectious disease expert, treats patients and oversees vaccination efforts and trials.
“We’re going to need more than one or two vaccine options to get out of this pandemic,” Dr. Stephanie Sterling said.Credit.Paul Frangipane for The New York Times
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As vaccination efforts ramp up around the city, Dr. Stephanie Sterling is well aware of the challenges ahead.
“We’re going to need more than one or two vaccine options to get out of this pandemic,” said Dr. Sterling, the chief infectious disease and hospital epidemiologist at NYU Langone Health in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and the head of its new vaccine research clinic. “We don’t know if one will have better long-term effects or work better in certain age groups or with certain populations, which is why we’re conducting our own trials.”