Returning for her third year, The Runners World Vegetarian Cookbook Wrinkle the Duck.

In 2021, Wrinkle Five Star aka A Wrinkle in Time: The Time Traveling Duck aka Wrinkle, quacked up nearly 8 million views on TikTok shortly after her debut. Today, there are 13 million views. Her adopted parents, Justin Wood and Joyce Kung of the Her adopted parents, Justin Wood and Joyce Kung of the, were training her for parading, they previously told Runner's World.

“She has very good endurance in walking and running,” Kung said. “We just figured [out] a good way to display it.”

Wrinkle wears custom shoes made from a soft, waterproof material, to protect her little duck feet.

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We tried to determine how far Wrinkle ran during Sunday’s race; in 2021, it was estimated that she ran about a half-mile with stops. Footage from this year’s race shows her running during the day and after the sun went down at the race’s iconic finish line in Central Park. Requests for an interview with Wrinkle’s parents were not immediately answered.

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