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Latest FKTs

2018-10-02	Tania Cahill	Hume & Hovell Walking Track (NSW, Australia)	8d 12h 39m
2018-09-30	Annie Weiss	Ice Age Trail (WI)	21d 18h 7m
2018-09-30	Tyler Green	Timberline Trail (OR)	6h 10m 58s
2018-09-29	Dan Rosenthal	Cranberry Lake 50 (NY)	11h 30m 46s
2018-09-29	Andrew T Catanese	Woody Gap to Blood Mtn on the AT (GA)	2h 30m 13s
2018-09-29	Christopher M. Smith	Niagara River, U.S. Side (NY)	8h 21m 20s
2018-09-29	Carrie Espasandin, Riquelle Weaver	Press Traverse (WA)	14h 33m 34s
2018-09-29	Gareth Wyn Hughes	Snowdon Horseshoe, Wales (UK)	1h 23m 48s
2018-09-29	William Rice, David Mitchell	Boundary Trail #1 (WA)	15h 14m 55s
2018-09-26	Matt Buck, Ben Whitfield, Adam Jacobs	Greensand Way (UK)	1d 7h 20m 28s

Trans Adirondack Route: Better You Than Me
Oct 14, 2018
Author Erik Schlimmer describes 240 miles across New York's Adirondack Park, the largest park and forest preserve in the Lower Forty-Eight states.
Short, steep and full effort: Joe Gray Reveals FKT Motivations
Aug 3, 2018
Joe Gray is a RACER. The guy is a multi-time mountain running champion representing the United States at classic skyraces, VK's and other shorter distance, technical events. So what's an FKT have to do with it?
The Pursuit of Endurance, Jennifer Pharr Davis
Jul 18, 2018
Endurance is the ultimate human commonality. JPD set out on an investigative journey to find the traits uniting her fellow previous Appalachian Trail record setters -- only to circle back to this simple conclusion -- in her new book The Pursuit of Endurance: Harnessing the Record-Breaking Power of Strength and Resilience.
Harvey Lewis AT FKT update
Jun 22, 2018
While you've been living your life and enjoying the onset of summer over the past 3+ weeks, ultrarunner Harvey Lewis has been wailing away on the Appalachian Trail, chasing Joe "Stringbean" McConaughy's remarkable FKT (45d12h15m) from last year.