The Lynchburg News & Advance of 19 June 2007 has an article by Ted Allen titled "
Trittipoe's jaunt not an ordinary hike on the Allegheny Trail" in which he recounts the 7 day running of the
Allegheny Trail in West Virginia by 50 year old Rebekah Trittipoe.
"She resolved to run the length of the Allegheny Trail - spanning 300 miles from the border of Pennsylvania to the top of Peters Mountain where it intersects the Appalachian Trail in Virginia ... setting an unofficial speed record for traversing the trail."
This isn't her first exposure to long-distance trail running. The article begins by mentioning a 7-day 160-mile run in Brazil. And it mentions her connection with Liberty University's David Horton:
"Trittipoe followed Horton on his record-setting Appalachian Trail run in 1991 and third-place finish in the Trans-America Footrace in 1995, penning a book about those nearly two-month jaunts called "Quest for Adventure." In 2005, Horton set a record of 66 days on the Pacific Crest Trail."
He had to leave her support crew on this Allegheny Trail run
"after the fourth day on Wednesday to go up to Maine to help support another runner who was completing an Appalachian Trail trip from Georgia."
But are they taking time to stop and smell the roses? That's what I want to know. That, and who is this AT runner?
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