The short video above shows Jason Girouard’s amazing run around all of Manhattan’s Streets. You can read the full story here, and here’s the main details:
On December 19th, [2023] I finished running every single block of every street and avenue in Manhattan. It took me all year and covered roughly 750 miles, [1,200 km] not including the times I had to double back.
The map above was shared on reddit where he stated:
Here is the full story. I used Strava to track to my runs, then would export & combine the GPX file from the run with an ongoing consolidated GPX file on GPX.Studio. I used https://gpx-animator.app/ to animate the route. The full GPX data is here.
On December 19th 2023, I finished running every single block of every street and avenue in Manhattan. It took me all year and covered roughly 750 miles, not including the times I had to double back.
On this date in 1954, 65-year old Thomas Keane finished walking every street in Manhattan, a feat that the New York Times included coverage of. Fifty years later to the day, Columbia University librarian Caleb Smith repeated Keane’s accomplishment. After running two miles down Madison Avenue, I carried on a tradition that has now lasted for almost 70 years, bringing my pointless but difficult quest to run every street in Manhattan to a close.
I’ve previously shared a similar video London’s Street Grid Revealed From 5 Years Of Cycle Journeys:
I love maps like, although the most extreme thing I’ve ever done is walk the London Tube Map.
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