“This was hard,” Faye Mitsunaga said during the last mile of the hike. “Even my legs are hurting now, my knees are hurting, but I can’t imagine them carrying things and working.”
to beat Union Pacific's record at the time of seven-and-a-half miles.
The group first met at the trailhead in Promontory on April 28, 2019, at 9 a.m. and were greeted with temperatures in the high 40s and gusts of wind that kicked up the dirt on the path ahead. The plan was to hike 10 miles along the path of track that was laid down 150 years ago. A change in pace came about eight miles into the hike when Shu challenged them to walk for a mile in silence to reflect on what conditions and situations must have been like for the Chinese railroad workers: Did they think about their family? Were their muscles aching? Was it dusty while they worked?
“It’s humbling to see how much people care about the accomplishment that the Chinese and the Irish did here, setting a world record that stands to this day,” said Kwan,. “That they would take the time out to come out in the relatively cold weather to hike 10 miles is just an incredible feat.” “It makes me proud that the Chinese have the capabilities of doing so much. More than just Chinese restaurants and laundries,” said Tennyson Kwok, 70, a retired engineer from San Francisco. “We all know they built the Great Wall, but I think that now that the history of the Chinese helping build the railroad is elevating the Chinese to Americans, which didn't exist 150 years ago.”
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