I wonder if he’ll do anything different if he’s aiming for less time.
Really seemed like he didn’t make his own life easy last time.
30 days sounds insane and would require huge daily miles, and assume that the weather + his body will play ball. I wonder if there is a shorter distance across the country than he did last time?
Next week: Pushing Switch Across America
and for our third installment of pushing across America, Pushing Mongo!!
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Maybe he’ll do it one obe of those skate mafia mini boards?
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ChatGPT seems to think it could be possible, so long as you can skate about 8-9 hours a day:
If we take the absolute shortest coast-to-coast line in the Lower 48 as ~2,089 miles (3,362 km) (USGS lists the shortest 48-state coast-to-coast distance as a point ~10 miles south of Brunswick, GA to ~12 miles south of San Diego, CA), (U.S. Geological Survey) then the skateboarding time mostly comes down to your miles per day.
Realistic touring pace (most people)
- 20–40 miles/day (32–64 km/day) → ~52–105 days of skating days
(2,089 ÷ 40 ≈ 52; 2,089 ÷ 20 ≈ 104.5)“Serious” long-distance pace (trained / very fit)
- ~55 miles/day (88.5 km/day) → ~38 days
That’s roughly the pace Chad Caruso averaged on his record crossing (55 miles/day; 3,162 miles in ~57 days). (Guinness World Records)Thinking in hours instead of days
Observed skateboard travel speeds in one study were ~6–13 mph, avg ~9.7 mph. (Transfers Magazine)
So if you averaged ~9–10 mph:
4 hours/day → ~36–40 miles/day → ~52–58 days
6 hours/day → ~55–60 miles/day → ~35–38 days
If you want, tell me your likely daily skate time (and whether you’d do rest days), and I’ll give you a tighter estimate.
I hope he’s going off personal experience and not chat gpt.
I reckon he’s going to change his route and try not to make the same mistakes he made the first time like skating through the desert without water.
What’s the point of doing it again?
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Not being as famous as he’d like to again? I don’t know… I quite like him and am definitely going to follow this. It’s good free entertainment. I love seeing rural America. More interesting than another clip filmed a Stoner Plaza or EMB, but I suppose I’m showing my age here.
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He should stick to his trick challenges. Some of mini ramp tricks he’s managed to pull off are proper mind-melters, not to mention nbds
Live streaming the whole thing isn’t he?
That’s what he said, yeah.