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Courtesy Keith Gartrell Rebecca Gartrell was always looking for her next big goal. The San Antonio-based ultrarunner had completed many 100-mile races, along with an Ironman, and she had also run a Boston-qualifying time in the marathon. So when she informed her husband, Keith, and best friend, Rebecca Reeves, that she wanted to journey across the entire state of Texas on foot, they were unfazed. But neither expected Rebecca to not come home from her challenge. On February 7, Rebecca’s body was found on the side of the road after a driver had hit her and continued on without stopping to re...

She was on pace to set a new record for running across the state of Texas. Rebecca Rodriguez Gartrell set a goal to run across the state of Texas. She started her journey back on February 1st near the New Mexico border right near El Paso. She was on pace to set a new record, but sadly we will never know if she would have accomplished her goal. 265 miles into her goal she was struck by a driver in Odessa on February 7th. The person fled the scene and Texas Department of Public Safety is looking for the suspect. In case you did not know this, the record for running across the state of Texas is ...