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For Gerdl, whose daughter got her into hiking, it was more of an emotional trek.
“Hiking has become a passion and an obsession for me,” she explains. “I got hooked on the Canyon the first time I did a rim to river hike. The magnificent views are ever changing, so it’s not the same hike every time. The Canyon serves medicinal purposes: physically, emotionally and spiritually. I keep saying I’m not doing it again, but deep down I know I will continue for as long as I can. Hiking Rim to Rim was exhausting, yet so satisfying that it still makes me cry to talk about it.”
The hike is no simple task, as the National Park Service warns there are no “easy” trails into or out of the Grand Canyon, and more than 250 people are rescued from the canyon each year.
The women say they plan to make the hike an annual event, and have the future goal to complete the “Rim Cubed hike, which goes from the South Rim to the North Rim and back again to the South Rim.
Neighbors AVE hosts ‘ultra’ runner by Miachelle DePiano
Two local business owners are literally running for their lives – after making a “lifelong commitment” to the sport. Clay and Jennifer Novick, owners of Audio Video Editor in Chandler, who together have lost more than 150 pounds, recently hosted ultra runner Micah True, also known as Caballo Blanco, who is a prominent figure in Christopher McDougall’s national best selling book “Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen.” It was a fundraiser for his nonprofit charity, Norawas de Rarámuri, which works to preserve the Rarámuri, also known as Tarahumara, and their running culture. The Novicks, who consider themselves beginner runners but have aspirations of becoming ultra runners, read McDougall’s book and connected with True on Facebook. In opening remarks, Clay Novick credits the book and True’s influence in the book with changing
their lives.
“We tell everyone it changed our life, and we pass the book on,” he says. True’s journey among the Rarámuri began with his own search for inner peace and simplicity. In his 20s, he was a martial artist and boxer who ran as part of his training. He quit fighting, but continued running. He travelled to Guatemala in the winters, running from village to village around Lake Atitlan. Over time, True’s running regimen expanded, averaging 160-180 miles a week.
Submitted photo by Miachelle DePiano
RUNS FOR CHARITY: Ultra runner Micah True made an appearance at Audio Video Editors recently with his dog.
A friend convinced him to run a 50-mile ultra marathon in Wyoming, and he won the race. True continued running races, graduating to the famously brutal Leadville 100 in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, running it four times in the 1980s. His success led him to believe he could be sponsored as a professional, but as he trained harder to perform better, injuries increased.
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