Preparations being made for second GAP Relay
By JEFF STITT
jstitt@yourmvi.com
P3R, the group that organizes the Pittsburgh Marathon each year, announced in February that the Great Allegheny Passage Relay will return this year, and on Monday released details about how people can learn more about the race.
The GAP Relay, presented by UPMC Health Plan, will challenge runners to sprint from the starting line on Canal Street in Cumberland, Md., at 8 a.m. Oct. 11. Those runners will be making a long voyage toward the finish line in Pittsburgh the next day. Along the way, they will see several Mon Valley “trail towns” along the GAP.
Built on railroad corridors, the 10-foot-wide multipurpose GAP Trail takes users along gentle grades, around sweeping curves, across major bridges and through mountain tunnels.
Trail users who make the complete journey cross both the Mason-Dixon Line and Eastern Continental Divide while enjoying various water gaps, gorges, miles of near-wilderness, sites of former coke ovens, iron furnaces, coal mines, dairy farms, a nature reserve at Dead Man’s Hollow in Elizabeth and modern steel mills.
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