A British woman who spent 11 years setting a record as the first woman to walk around the world has admitted she cheated.
Ffyona Campbell, who left home at the age of 16 on her global trek, said she skipped 1,000 miles of her walk across the United States.Campbell, 29, told British newspapers and television that her punishing regime of 25 miles a day was too much.
"I shouldn't be remembered as the first woman to walk around the world when I cheated. I broke the unwritten rule of the Guinness Book of Records," she told Independent Television News.
Campbell said she rode in her support truck for the leg between Indianapolis and Fort Summer, N.M.
"I got into the back of the vehicle and drove ahead and didn't drive back to continue walking properly," she said.
She completed her walk in Scotland to cheering crowds in 1994. "They were walking beside me as a role model. They were respecting me. To them I owe the biggest apology."