Hillary Clinton v. Condoleezza Rice in mileage battle Hillary Clinton in the iconic sunglasses photo, flying on a C-17. But she may not best former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice as the most -traveled secretary of state. (Courtesy Diana Walker/ Time) The race between Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and her predecessor, Condoleezza Rice, to be the most-traveled secretary ever is trending strongly Rice's way. As we noted in February 2011, Clinton, after two years in office, just eked ahead of Rice with a late flurry of January jaunts - including a six-day, 16,500-miler to the Middle East and a spectacular, last-minute, one-day trip, on Jan. 30, 2011, to Haiti. The yearly count, compiled by our colleague Glenn Kessler, ends Jan. 31 because a new administration's Cabinet members aren't confirmed until late January. So the two-year standings were: Clinton - 165 days on the road, 40 trips; Rice - 163 days on the road, 39 trips. But at the three-year mark, though each had logged 60 trips abroad, Rice had moved into the lead in terms of days on the road with 236 days to Clinton's 229. And though it seems lately that every time we turn around Clinton's flying off to somewhere, Rice built a formidable lead early in the fourth year. The standings as of mid-April: Rice - 264 days on the road, 68 trips; Clinton - 239 days on the road, 65 trips. Rice, however, looking for deals on Mideast peace, Iran's nuclear enrichment efforts and North Korea's nukes before Bush's presidency ended, set a blistering pace down the stretch. By the end of her tenure, Rice had logged 326 days on the road and 86 trips. (Henry Kissinger, the current No. 2, had 313 days on the road.) At Clinton's current pace, Kessler predicts, she might end up in third place - though she could possibly catch Kissinger. By another metric, total miles traveled, Clinton is currently at 745,139 miles. Rice ended up with 1,059,247 miles So while Rice didn't get any of those deals she sought, she may have set an enduring record for travel.