When the Tracker last checked in with the Subway Challenge Duo around 2 p.m. they were a little behind schedule. But Don Badaczewski said they could still beat the record.
“We are a little behind,” he said from the Franklin Ave. station. “But we are well within our cushion.”
He said the race has been a thrill. “It’s exciting, just barely making or train or just barely missing it. It’s absolutely a real adreline rush,” he said.
The question remains, how do they get home from Pelham Bay Park? Back on the train?
And on another aspect of the race, Robert Thompson, director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University, spoke with The Tracker on all the media attention the duo has received.
“Sometimes a story like this comes along just when editors need stories like these. Part of it was timing. I bet if the news cycle was blowing a certain way there’d be no response. ... The barometric pressure was right for the story.”
He raised another point:
“Everybody thought nobody needs to TV and newspapers anymore. People say they can shoot it themselves and put it on YouTube or iFilm. What this demonstrates, for all the explosion of new media, there is nothing like getting the attention of good old fashioned media.”
Amen
And I feel sorry for the reporters who gotta wait outside Pelham Bay Park at 6 a.m. tomorrow.
-- Chuck Bennett amNY.com
