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Author Erik Schlimmer describes 240 miles across New York's Adirondack Park, the largest park and forest preserve in the Lower Forty-Eight states.

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?

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.

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.

Fun video of the origins and directions of the FKT movement by Wild Confluence, Directed by Colin Arisman.

North is the direction Scott Jurek went on the Appalachian Trail when he set his FKT in 2015, and the title of his new book describing that prodigious effort.

With this new website now active, some incredible new FKTs are being submitted.  Here are just three of the new routes, all submitted today, April 1.

Peter Bakwin describes why the move from the old FKT site to this new one is so helpful.

Andrew Hamilton shares thoughts on the first Winter Colorado 14ers in a calendar year

What were the most inspiring, difficult, fast, or just plain ‘out-there’ FKT’s last year?