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The Subway Challenge
On August 23, 2006, Don Badaczewski and Matt Green spent all day and night in the New York City subway system, in an attempt to break a speed record-- how fast could they pass through the 468 stations in the entire system? The last record was set in 1998 at just over 25 hours.

I met up with them for a few hours to find out what happens on such a marathon journey, and why they wanted to do it.


This piece appeared as a web special on the on August 26, 2006, edition of Weekend America.


Producer: Sarah Elzas
Recorded in New York, NY
Editor: Bob Melisso
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