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Article Source: Runner's World
Written by - Steve Friedman - January 2009
Rick Trujillo trains in the Rockies, not on the roads. He chases elk, not PRs. He fules up on Oreos, not PowerBars. He loves running. But is it possible to love it too much?
David Horton is a 58-year-old professor of kinesiology who has devoted
much of his life to running courses so long, steep, and absurdly brutal
that many other merely elite runners-marathon
champions, for example-chuckle and shake their heads when they read of
his exploits. Horton set a speed record by running the 2,175-mile
length of the Appalachian Trail in 1991 in 52 days, nine hours, and 41
minutes, and he inspired a movie when he set a record running the Pacific Crest Trail in 2005, all 2,650 miles of it (he did it in 66 days, seven hours, and 16 minutes, a record that still stands). Horton, whose nickname in the trail
and mountain running communities is, simply, "The Runner," believes in
optimism and toughness and in the men and women who embrace these
traits in their quest to run ridiculous distances over laughably
difficult terrain.
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