US News NYC’s fastest subway rider beats his own all-stations speed record

[tom_mai78101]

Matthew Ahn wasn’t about to let a new subway stop strip him of his title: New York City’s swiftest straphanger.

The 25-year-old lawyer set the Guinness World Record last year for the fastest time to hit all 468 train stations. He did it in a super-sonic time of 21 hours, 49 minutes and 35 seconds.

But when the MTA opened its new 34th Street-Hudson Yards stop in September, creating the 469th station in the system, the record passed into oblivion.

Early Friday morning, Ahn set out to recapture his rail-riding glory.

“I was frustrated when I heard I no longer had the title, so I knew I had to take another stab at it,” Ahn told The Post as he began his journey by boarding a 2:02 a.m. A train at Far Rockaway and Mott Avenue.

Read more here. (New York Post)

Reddit AMA with the record holder in the article.

 

[Varine]

... is this like, a common thing people compete in?

 

[tom_mai78101]

... is this like, a common thing people compete in?

Competing themselves to get their names into the books? Yeah.

 

[Varine]

that's dumb

 

[tom_mai78101]

It's not dumb since there's a lot of people competing for it.

 

[Varine]

No, that just makes it a dumb thing people are for some reason doing.

 

[tom_mai78101]

No, that just makes it a dumb thing people are for some reason doing.

Oh well, it exists still.