As I drank my morning coffee and read Tuesday's addition of The Wall Street Journal, I thought of my good friend and Conservation Alliance Member (Runner Girl Races), Krissy Moehl, and fellow ultra-runner, Devon Crosby-Helms. Today, these two women are attempting to set a new R2R2R Record – Running the Grand Canyon, Rim to Rim to Rim, in under 9 hours and 25 minutes.
Adventure Journal caught up with them before they set of on their recording breaking adventure.
The ultra-endurance studs are running together to set the fastest time for a woman going from rim to rim and back to rim of the Grand Canyon, tracing the classic route that starts on the South Rim, goes down the South Kaibab Trail, crosses the Colorado River, ascends the North Rim on the North Kaibab Trail, and then turns back around. Here the rest of the article here.