{"id":43957,"date":"2013-10-21T19:57:20","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T15:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=43957"},"modified":"2013-10-21T19:57:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T15:57:21","slug":"british-duo-brave-blistering-heat-and-freezing-winds-to-run-3100-miles-across-america-in-79-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=43957","title":{"rendered":"British duo brave blistering heat and freezing winds to run 3,100 miles across America in 79 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Two-friends-run-across-America.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-43953\" alt=\"Two friends- run across America\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Two-friends-run-across-America.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Two-friends-run-across-America.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Two-friends-run-across-America-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Two-friends-run-across-America-424x300.jpg 424w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Two friends have battled dehydration, blistering heat and freezing wind to run across America in just 79 days.<\/p>\n<p>Friends Stephen Pope, 47, and Chris Finill, 54, crossed 3,100 miles on foot, averaging 40 miles a day, in their epic journey across\u00a0the continental United States.<\/p>\n<p>Their route took them from the Pacific to the Atlantic &#8211; from California, through the heat of Nevada, to Utah, Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York.<\/p>\n<p>Between them, the pair consumed 12,000 calories and drank 26 pints of fluid a day and exhausted seven pairs of running shoes.<\/p>\n<p>Their run, which began in San Francisco and ended in New York, raised \u00a315,000 for forces charity Help for Heroes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Two-friends-run-across-America2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-43955\" alt=\"Two friends- run across America2\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Two-friends-run-across-America2.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Two-friends-run-across-America2.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Two-friends-run-across-America2-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Two-friends-run-across-America2-402x300.jpg 402w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Two friends have battled dehydration, blistering heat and freezing wind to run across America&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":43955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,143,137],"tags":[2914,2916,2915],"class_list":["post-43957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-usa","category-world","tag-america","tag-chris-finill","tag-stephen-pope","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}