(KRLD) - The staff at a rec center in Plano, Texas celebrated Friday morning as a woman completed a nearly 25,000-mile journey "around the world" on a rowing machine.
Eleanor Joyner started rowing at Liberty Rec Center about six years ago.
"I'm the crazy rowing lady," she said, laughing.
Joyner's husband, volunteers and staff at the rec center counted down as she completed the trip Friday morning.
"Find your passion. Find your exercise passion and do it," she says. "If you do it, you can accomplish goals. And set goals because goals make exercising easier."
The recreation center opened in 2004. Joyner says she started coming in 2005. The center was renovated just before she started the project.
Joyner says she measured the distance of 24,901 miles around the 33rd parallel where Plano is located.
"Being back in Plano's very nice," she says. "It's been interesting the countries. You go though China, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan and you go out the other side, across the Mediterranean and across North Africa."
Now, she hopes to eclipse the known record distance on a rowing machine of 100,000 meters. Joyner, 64, says she is already a third of the way there.
"He's in his forties. He had started this at 17. I'm doing it faster than he was doing it," she says. "I'm hoping to be the first woman or the oldest woman or the person who does it in the shortest amount of time."
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