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« Thread Started on Nov 2, 2009, 9:17pm »

Sheryl Wheeler has claimed the women's and overall FKT for the 122 mile Northville - Lake Placid Trail, 35h13m on June 15-16, 2011.
Tim Seaver has the men's FKT, 37h31m set Aug. 6-7, 2005.

According to Wikipedia: "The Northville-Lake Placid Trail, also known as the NPT, is a lightly-travelled foot trail that runs 133 mi (214 km) through the Adirondack Park in northern New York State. It was laid out by the Adirondack Mountain Club in 1922 and 1923, and is now maintained by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation." Gorp has a detailed mile-by-mile decription of the trail.

Though the NPT is officially 133 miles, for 10+ miles from Northville to Benson it follows paved roads, and the last 1.2 miles or so into Lake Placid are also on paved roads. Most hikers consider the "practical" end points of the NPT avoid these beginning and ending road sections, so that the trail route is about 122 miles. So far, speed runs of the NPT have also skipped these beginning and ending road sections.

Prior to Tim Seaver's 2005 run, Richard Denker held the FKT for the NPT at 40h20m, set in August 16-17, 1973, when Denker was just 18 years old. He was supported by a large group from the Boy Scouts of America.

Vermonter Tim Seaver broke Denker's record on August 6-7, 2005, running 122 miles in 37h31m, supported by his wife and a friend, and using about 44 self-cached 1/2 liter water bottles. His splits are here. Seaver researched Denker's 1973 run, and was able to contact Denker. He discusses differences between the route of the trail in 2005 and 1973 on the Adirondack Hiking Forum. It appears that Seaver's run was about 2 miles longer than Denker's. Seaver also worked up a detailed pace comparison between the two trips, and posted Denker's Record of Trip.

As reported below, Sheryl Wheeler ran the 122 mile trail section in 35h13m on June 15-16, 2011. This is the overall FKT. She also ran the entire 133-mile Northville - Lake Placid Trail in a time of 39h16m. This was a supported run, but we have no further details.

There have been a couple fairly fast unsupported trips on the NPT. Drew Haas did the full 133 (135?) miles from Northville to the Averyville Road train station in 2d12h30m on Sept. 2-5, 2009, Details are on this website. Previously the fastest known unsupported time was 3d8h by Erik Schlimmer, in October 2008.

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« Reply #1 on Jun 17, 2011, 4:51pm »

THis is to claim the fasted known time for the Northervile/placid trail-122 mile sported and the 133 mile suported.

Sheryl Wheeler run strated June 15 5:03 am IN Lake Placid at millatery rd and Averyville rd with one timer started and 1.2 miles later when she went in on the 122 mile trail part started a second timer. She finished the 122 mile part in 35hrs 13 min beating the old time of Tim Seaver of 37hrs 31 mins. Then keep going the last 10.5 mile to Northville to the Sign, where the trail station was, in 39:16mins. No known time supported was known for the 133 mile
THe Mayor of Northville and welcome people from the town were there to present her with a ceriticate for her feat.

So Sheryl now holds the Record for the 122 mile and the 133 Men's and womens record.

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