Two Riders, 13,204 Miles, and a Record Written Across America

Liza Miller and Wendy Crockett spent twenty-four days inscribing WRWR 2026 across the map of the United States. The certificate landed at Mid-Ohio four days later.

I was standing in the crowd at AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days when Atlas World Records handed Liza Miller and Wendy Crockett certification for the Largest Coordinated GPS Drawing by a Motorcycle Pair.

The actual record reads - ”Atlas Record ID 20426039 credits Crockett and Miller with a verified 13,204 miles ridden between June 29 and July 22, 2026, across the continental United States, forming a geospatial inscription that reads WRWR 2026“

If you have never made a GPS drawing yourself, the premise is simple and the execution is not. You plan a route so that the recorded track itself becomes the artwork. Every turn is meticulously planned. Every wrong turn is a permanent scar on something that you have worked so hard to start.

Atlas worked from a complete Spotwalla tracking archive synchronized with Garmin InReach data, thousands of sequential timestamped position reports, start and finish coordinate confirmation, route maps, and the planning documents behind the design. Confirmed continuity across the whole route and confirmed the completed track actually formed the intended inscription.

Ten states. Roughly 600 miles a day. Twenty-four days.

The two names on the certificate carry weight in different corners of the sport. Wendy Crockett became the first woman to win the Iron Butt Rally in 2019, the eleven-day, eleven-thousand-mile event that gets called the world's toughest motorcycle competition, and she did it on the same 2005 Yamaha FJR she has campaigned through six Iron Butt Rallies. She holds a Guinness World Record with riding partner Ian McPhee for the longest journey by motorcycle in a single country by a team, set in 2022 riding 80,208 miles through every contiguous US state in alphabetical order. She took the AMA Bessie Stringfield Award in 2020. If there is a person in North America better equipped to plan a route this precise and then actually ride it, that person is hard to name.

Liza Miller comes at it from the community side. She opened her Santa Cruz garage in 2009 as the Re-Cycle Garage, a DIY repair cooperative built around teaching people to turn their own wrenches. That garage produced the Motorcycles and Misfits podcast, now past 670 episodes and thirteen years. She has led women-only tours through the northern mountains of Pakistan. She was part of the original Women Riders World Relay team and now serves as co-CEO of the WRWR App. She was named a Friend of the AMA in 2019.

The ride was never only about the two of them. Registration was open to anyone who wanted a day or a week in the saddle, but registering did not just get you time with two motorcycle pioneers. It also meant six hundred mile days. Participants carried the original WRWR baton, collected a patch and a certificate, and received a golden baton pass in the WRWR app.

Wendy has said the drawing itself was the easy part. The route came together naturally for someone who plans rides for a living. The hard part started when the ride stopped being two riders and became an open invitation. Daily segments had to be redrawn to make sense for people joining and peeling off. Every mile still had to serve the artwork. Geography turned into logistics, and logistics turned into hospitality.

Then the road did what the road does.

Dehydration put Liza in an emergency room. A rock punched through her radiator. A drive chain started failing. Storms crossed the plains, heat was terribly uncomfortable, and wind worked on the bikes through the open West. With Liza slowing down for her ER visit, hotels were rebooked. Riders shuffled their own travel plans, and the right person always showed up when they needed them. Glenda Owens, a nurse who had joined for a short segment turned out to be exactly the person Liza needed when she went down, Glenda took charge and got the wheels in motion for resolution.

The sheer size of the undertaking is overwhelming, two riders planned a continent-scale route, executed it to a tolerance tight enough for forensic GPS review, absorbed a hospital visit and a hole in the radiator, and finished on schedule with dozens of other riders in tow.

But it is important to note that both of these women did not get back home after the event, they were both due at the AMA Vintage Motorcycle days event. If you have been you know thats not a place to catch up on sleep. Immediately after that, both were heading to the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum and Hall of Fame on August 10, where the WRWR crew shares the day with Shantell Williams and the Sisterhood Ride to Sturgis, and where the museum is marking its twenty-fifth anniversary.

After all of that, the pair will finally make their trek back home.

If you are curious about what the experience is, I recommend reading Wendy's book that details every day of her previous world record.