BIKER: “I feel a real sense of accomplishment. It was a hard trip. It’s nice to have had this challenge,” Ann Kovich said on her arrival in new York. She had just hiked across the United States from Santa Monica, Calif., a 2,800-mile feat she accomplished in 14 days, 14 hours and 54 minutes. The 28year-old graduate student from the University of Texas at Austin said in becoming the first woman to set a U.S. crosscountry bike record she averaged about 200 miles a day and had only two flat tires.