Allegheny Trail, West Virginia
Bradley Mongold holds the FKT for the Allegheny Trail, 4d13h33m, August 2008.
The Allegheny Trail runs
from the West Virginia-Pennsylvania border near Bruceton Mills to the Appalachian Trail
on Peters Mountain, north of Pearisburg, Virginia. The trail appears to be under
construction, and will eventually be 330 miles long.
Rebekah Trittipoe ran the existing 302 miles (?) of the Allegheny Trail in June 2007
to celebrate turning 50. She had full support during the run.
A report of
her trip lacks detail, and it is only clear that she had significant problems
over the last 2-3 days. Rebekah provided some detail in an email on August 12, 2008:
I was by myself, got stuck when the mountain tops had been clear cut and trail
markings gone with the trees, had to backtrack 6 miles on trail, and about 35 miles
on road(some of which I hitch-hiked) to locate my crew, go in backwards to cover
what I missed and then out again, then had to drive to find where the trail picked
up for the final section, ran that and had only about 3 hours day light left for the
last 12 miles. Sounds doable, right? But with no confidence in the trail marking,
I decided to wait until first light. In retrospect, it took me 6 hours in the daylight.
Would have been impossible in the dark by myself. Such is trail running...hence, a
very, very soft "record"... Almost to the point of embarrassment.
Adam Casseday and Bradley Mongold, from West Virginia, set out to take the Allegheny
Trail record at 5:37 a.m. on August 28, 2008.
A blog reports their trip.
Casseday had to stop with a swollen ankle on the morning of the third day.
Mongold completed the trail (quoted as 292 miles) at 7:10 p.m. on September 1,
for a total time of 4d13h33m. He completed the final 95.6 miles in 34h57m with
no sleep. His daily mileage is as follows:
Day 1: 81 miles
Day 2: 53.8 miles
Day 3: 61.65 miles
Day 4-5: 95.64 miles