“Run, Pete, run!”
Manhattan celebrated its very own Forrest Gump on Monday, when 29-year-old Pete Kostelnick reached City Hall, landing in the Guinness Book of World Records as the fastest man to ever run across the country.
Ultrarunner @PeteKostelnick smashes record for run across the United States https://t.co/m95v2Odty0 pic.twitter.com/fVnmhcAafl
— Runner's World (@runnersworld) October 24, 2016
Just like Tom Hanks’ beloved character in the 1994 classic “Forrest Gump,’’ Kostelnick started on one end of the US — on the steps of San Francisco’s City Hall on Sept. 12, his birthday — and just kept running.
By the time he hit the Jersey side of the George Washington Bridge on Monday, exactly 42 days later, he had gathered a mob of 10 fans who started running with him.