Athlete begins nonstop, 135-mile run on the Strip — PHOTOS
Helene Neville, left, runs between the South Strip "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign and downtown‘s "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign on Friday, Jan. 29, 2016. She was joined on the run by John Taylor of Iowa. (Jacob Kepler/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Helene Neville, left, raises her arms as she runs between the South Strip "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign and downtown‘s "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign on Friday, Jan. 29, 2016. She was joined on the run by John Taylor of Iowa. (Jacob Kepler/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Helene Neville, right, points as she runs between the South Strip "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign and downtown‘s "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign on Friday, Jan. 29, 2016. She was joined on the run by John Taylor of Iowa. (Jacob Kepler/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Supporters of Helene Neville cheer as she runs from the South Strip "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign to downtown‘s "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign on Friday, Jan. 29, 2016. (Jacob Kepler/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Helene Neville, left, runs between the South Strip "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign and downtown‘s "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign on Friday, Jan. 29, 2016. She was joined on the run by John Taylor of Iowa. (Jacob Kepler/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Helene Neville is on the run.
Neville, wearing a red, white and blue outfit that stands out in a crowd, is running 135 miles nonstop between the "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" signs at the south end of the Strip and Downtown.
Neville's website hails her achievement for the world record "as the first grandmother, nurse and cancer survivor to run the perimeter of the contiguous U.S."
See more at http://www.oneontherun.com/
Neville set the world record as the first grandmother, nurse, and cancer survivor to run the perimeter of contiguous United States.
