Brooke Johnson is ready to be done skating.

She’s been at it for nearly four months straight — across mountain ranges, over hills and through valleys — and she hasn’t walked, driven or ridden in a car for any of it. She’s skateboarding across America, and on Friday, Johnson is expected to cross her finish line in Virginia Beach. She will be the first woman to complete the challenge.

Johnson, 29, is more than 100 days into her journey , which started in Santa Monica. That’s more than 3,000 miles skated and 245,000 calories burned, and she’s doing it all for spinal cord injury research. Her stepfather suffered an injury to his C5 vertebrae, which caused him to become quadriplegic. Johnson said the initial plan was to use the funds raised during the trip for his recovery, but after her st

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