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By Kkvin Ai.i.kn
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It sounds like tin April Fool's joke, but it’s not.
On April 1. Fiona Holmerick is going to lx>gin running across the United States. Her plan is to start Tuesday at the Atlantic Ocean in Virginia Beach. Her destination is the Pacific Ocean in hurt hern California, some 3,200 miles away
If she is successful, the 23 old Mount Vernon Farm intern says she will become just the 10th woman to achieve the feat.
“I’ve been planning to do it since high school," said Holmerick, who ran track and cross country at North Carolina State University.
She was still a sophomore in college when she completed her first long-distance run, from her front porch in Laramie, Wyo., to her grandmother’s house in Cheyenne, some 50 miles away.
“I thought it would Ik? cool to get there on my own foot, so I did," she said.
Holmerick estimates that her coast-to-coast trip will take* about three months. She plans to run six hours per day - a three-hour shirt in the morning and another threehour shirt in the evening. Depending on terrain, she probably will cover between 30 and 40 miles a day at the pace of 10 minutes per mile. She is not going to take any days off.
Accompanying Holmerick on the trip will bo her boyfriend, Nick Ijchecka, and the couple’s two dogs. They have un KV that will serve as a mobile base for the run. lehecka will lx* the* one-man support crew.
Holmerick is encouraging anyone who is interested in running with her, whether it Ik- for an hour or a day, to join her on the road. 1 ler
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