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Athlete Route Start date Style Status
Hunter Leininger Florida Trail (FL) Supported Complete - New FKT!
Billy "Wahoo" Meredith Pinhoti Trail (AL, GA) Self-supported DNF
Bob Stewart Benton MacKaye Trail (GA, TN, NC) Unsupported DNF
Clinton Straughen Arizona Trail (AZ) Unsupported In progress

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  • KeganB:
    I completed this linkup in 14:03:26 on 9/22/2023. https://www.strava.com/activities/9906788808 I will not submit a FKT for it since Sean O'Rourke has a time to beat of "14 hours", which I essentially tied (and therefore my time is not a FKT).  I… read more »
  • christofteuscher:
    Yay, congrats, well done!! 
  • smvandend:
    Follow-up on this: Had great luck today with nice weather, no reroutes due to wildlife, and very few hikers on the Flattop descent. A wrong turn and lots of nausea threw me off my splits strategy around mile 21-22. Still very happy with my time of 6… read more »
  • AlexPlinio:
    On Tuesday, September 26th, 2023, I will attempt to break the course record by starting half an hour before the first low tide at 12:01 AM. My Garmin InReach tracker is share.garmin.com/ratt50.  Alex
  • Peter 559:
    I understand the popularity and the reason that the FKT route is A-K, however from an aesthetic and geographical standpoint, this isn’t the entire Western Arthur’s Traverse, only part of it. Perhaps a compromise might be having both variants listed… read more »