Description: Ultra runner Nikki Kimball faces her ultimate challenge on Vermont's 273 mile Long Trail.Coming to public television and the film festival circuit in summer 2013.
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Nikki Kimball is a life long student of endurance sports who was born and raised in Chittenden, Vermont. Primarily a cross country ski and bicycle racer from childhood through her early twenties, Nikki’s athletic focus shifted toward competitive running during graduate school. She began her professional careers in both physical therapy and ultra running in 1999 while living in New York’s Adirondack Park. Here on the rocky, muddy, root-strewn mountains of upstate New York she honed her skills as one of the b
I love endurance sports. Skiing, cycling, running and hiking shaped my life in countless positive ways. I began my first sport, cross country skiing, not with goals of competing, but rather with the goal of training to simply walk. As a toddler my hips turned inward, preventing the bipedal exploration common to my peers. My parents oversaw months of casting and bracing prescribed to realign my legs. On the conclusion of those months my physical therapist suggested cross country skiing as further therapy to