Spanning the length of almost two full marathons, one local runner’s three-day route up and down San Francisco traced a familiar face — Chappell Roan’s — on the popular fitness tracking app Strava.
The rise (and ensuing contentiousness) of Chappell Roan this past year has been nothing short of spectacular. From her Coachella debut, which evoked early-2000s Lady GaGa sentiments, to her crowd-packed Sunday slot at Outside Lands, the rise of this midwest princess is undeniable.
In San Francisco, Roan’s ascent into pop-culture ubiquity inspired a local runner to course an entire route that mirrors her portrait on The Rise of the Midwest Princess.
“My Chappell run last week,” writes user [slash]iwannabechanarchy on Reddit; the user also has a public Instagram, [at]chanarchy, who goes by the name Frank Chan/
Spanning over 46 miles, the route — which combs through most downtown neighborhoods, the Castro, the Mission, and parts of SoMa — uploaded to Strava took three consecutive days to complete. Collectively, the route produced an elevation gain of 5,453 feet. Or to put that figure into another perspective: Chan climbed from sea level to an elevation 200 feet higher than Denver, America’s “Mile High City,” over those days.
On Instagram, Chan writes that most of his “album run art” routes are “personal punk canon, some bands having been around for decades.” Roan sits as an outlier, Chan waxing in that the album’s debut was “so spectacular I’m not waiting that long, but I’m hoping we [will be] celebrating the 10-year anniversary just as well.”
May we all find the bravery, grit, gestalt, and electrolytes to run our mileage to whatever Pink Pony Club we want.
Feature image: Courtesy of Instagram via [at]chanarchy
