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Athlete Route Start date Style Status
Tara Dower Appalachian Trail (AT) Supported Complete - New FKT!
Nick Fowler Arizona Trail (AZ) Self-supported Complete - New FKT!
Georgia Porter Arizona Trail (AZ) Supported In progress

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  • Tom Lambert:
    This FKT was originally reported on my site, which is dead (and I was on the trail and ran part of it with Ryan, but I could only keep up for a short ways). So as I did for Rickey Gates' FKT, I'm adding some of the info from that page here so that… read more »
  • Tom Lambert:
    This page links to my site, but that page (and most of the site) has been broken for a very long time and I have no interest in fixing it, so I'm adding the relevant parts from my mini-interview with Rickey to a comment here and, even if that page… read more »
  • Tom Lambert:
    One thing to note. The description says that, "FKTs are TH-to-TH, starting and ending at driveable pavement (at the bridge where the paved footpath meets the driving road)." Traditionally this was timed from the Happy Isles gauging station which is… read more »
  • Hunter Leininger:
    Great analysis! For some reason when my Suunto watch data uploaded to Strava, it had my splits all messed up. On Strava it was saying that I was moving at a 2min/mile pace on the extremely technical Laugavegur trail (which would be impossible even… read more »
  • aricompton:
    Hi Tim, I would be really interested in hearing more about your FKT planning as I'm looking to attempt an FKT at some point - if you still have all that info and are happy to share it please let me know at this email address aricompton26@gmail.com… read more »