Connor Strynkowski completes NYC Marathon with race bib pinned to his bare chest

David Goggins would beryllium proud. 

American runner Connor Strynkowski completed nan NYC Marathon — successful dashingly speedy manner — pinch his bib pinned to his bare chest. 

The 30-year-old traversed nan route, which weaves done each 5 of New York City’s boroughs, successful conscionable little than 2 hours and 39 minutes — a astir six-minute gait per mile.

Strynkowski’s determination to spell shirtless, it appears, was not made successful nan spur-of-the-moment: among nan moving community, nan Palmyra, Pa., autochthonal has go a pseudo-celebrity, affectionately dubbed nan “The Pin Skin Man.” 

The precise conditions astir conducive to moving 26.2 miles pinch 4 barbs pinned to nan thorax stay unclear, but nan mostly of runners who competed successful Sunday’s marathon were pleased pinch nan race-day temperatures. 

More than 55,000 racers competed nan marathon. Pictured here, runners recreation done South Slope, Brooklyn. Paul Martinka

It was a crisp 44 degrees erstwhile Strynkowski group retired crossed nan Verrazano-Narrows Bridge astir 9 a.m. By nan clip he crossed nan decorativeness statement successful Central Park immoderate 2 and a half hours later, nan somesthesia had risen to a balmy 50 degrees. 

Strynkowski’s charismatic time — 2:38:16 — was nan 326th-fastest among 55,524 marathon finishers. In his property group, 30-34, that clip was bully for 94th place. 

Praise and disorder rained successful from each corners of nan internet; successful nan Marathon’s charismatic Facebook group, a post picturing Strynkowski adjacent nan starting statement garnered thousands of reactions. 

Connor Strynkowski talking pinch different runners adjacent nan starting statement of Sunday’s race. Facebook/NYC TCS Marathon

“Why?” 1 personification asked. 

“He must really dislike chafed nipples,” different observed.

“That’s nan meaning of a existent runner correct there,” a 3rd said.

Among nan 600-plus commenters, galore wrote astir seeing nan shirtless speedster — who ran way and section astatine Cornell from 2012-16 and was competing successful nan title arsenic a personnel of nan New York Harriers Run Club — walk them on nan route. 

Of course, Strynkowski could person pinned his bib to his shorts, but where’s nan nosy successful that?