User:LibraryInformation/Sarah Covington Fulcher
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Sarah Covington Fulcher "set her incredible record one marathon at a time. It was an unparalleled feat that will take a heck of a commitment to beat. The feat earned her the record for the youngest person ever to run across a continent, and the first woman to foot it across Australia. During her record run, Fulcher averaged 10 minutes per mile [1]." During this amazing first of it's kind, Fulcher ran "in 50 degree temperatures, battled with swarms or flies and worn out SlX pairs of running: shoes - but nothing can dampen her enthusiasm [2]." She received her BA degree from the prestigious Salem College in Winston Salem, North Carolina where she set her sights high, transferring credits from her three previous schools towards a degree in non-profit management [3]." The Run Across Down Under also earned the college graduate a citation from the city of Winston Salem and promotion by the private women’s college as one of their most distinguished alumnae. Fulcher's most notable accomplishment among many world records is that of "11,134 miles around the United States in 1988, setting a record for the longest run by any person [4]." Unlike any other claims of this type, Fulcher's record is solemnly reported by all Guinness Books Publications from 1990 through 1998, especially in a full two-page color layout in 1990 [5]. "Sarah Fulcher finished the longest continual solo run ever (in her) 11,134 mile-run in 14 months , averaging a marathon a day [6]." Fulcher's world records are used in unknown numbers of books and publications of all kinds across the world. Her world records have been celebrated by women’s’ organizations the most halls of sports fame and famous firsts. It is considered a continuous run covering 11,134 miles satisfying Guinness and others at exactly 9:15 am on October 2, 1988 setting a new world record for both men and women which probably never will be broken and/or proven noting that comparisons are tricky from a statistical standpoint and would technically have to be done under the same conditions from start to finish [7].
References
[edit]- ^ Kevles, B. (1989, March). The longest run ever. Women’s Sports and Fitness Magazine, 11(2), 67.
- ^ Paton, J. (1986, December 26). End of the road. Perth Daily News, 1A.
- ^ Morris, D. (2011). Sarah's Long Run: Highlights from Sarah Covington Fulcher's World's Record Longest Run, Jamestown, North Carolina: Crazy Feathers Publishing, 20.
- ^ Heinemann, S. (1996). Timelines of American women’s history. New York: Berkley, 286.
- ^ McFarlan, D. (1989). The Long Run. The Guinness Book of Records 1990. Guinness Books: Enfield. 299-299.
- ^ Miller, E. (2002). Making her mark: firsts and milestones in women’s sports. Chicago: McGraw-Hill, 355-356.
- ^ Morris, D. (2011). Sarah's Long Run: Highlights from Sarah Covington Fulcher's World's Record Longest Run, Jamestown, North Carolina: Crazy Feathers Publishing, 99.
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