Timmy Zhou, a 22-year old New York University graduate, set out to run coast to coast to raise awareness and money for wildlife conservation. In the process it earned him the nickname “Forrest Gump.”
He trained for more than two years, tackling multiple ultramarathons to build up his endurance, at first with no concrete start date in mind. He considered taking a year off his undergraduate studies at New York University to complete the challenge, but graduated a semester early in December 2022 instead to use the time to train.On March 1, next to the pier at Venice Beach, with his girlfriend and dog as his sole support-crew, he toed the start line of his route back to New York.
Running gave him a sense of control he said he wasn’t able to find in fencing. “My body had control over my mind,” he said about competing. “With running, my mind has that control.”“I was just thinking like, ‘Wow, I just finished a marathon, like running is kind of this hard thing I can do. How can I put two and two together?’” he said. “There was a thought that I can think of a really big running challenge and then use that as a catalyst for fundraising for something that I care about.
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