Athletes
Route
Route variation
Standard route
Multi-sport
No
Gender category
Male
Style
Unsupported
Finish date
Total time
3h
10m
46s
Verification
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Maintained high-intensity for the duration. Gave it all I had, hard to walk after! I'd run it once before, about a year ago, so knew the turns pretty well. Mostly well marked, but little traveled. This trail seems to always be extremely easy, or extremely hard, so it's difficult to find a rhythm. The tech sections are very challenging, but there's also a bunch of flat road. Plenty of massive blowdowns to negotiate, and for some reason I did this at 70-80 degrees, clear sky, high noon... But I managed! Plenty of cold streams to help cool me off. Scratch this one off the bucket-list
Comments
It was pointed out that Dan took a more direct trail near Royalston Falls from the old cemetery down to the shelter. Because of this deviation we are flagging the effort. The next FKT must best Ben's time but doesn't need to best Dan's. I will say that this deviation is certainly not enough to make up the 8 minute difference but to be fair as it is a route deviation and it was brought to our attention we are flagging none the less. In an ideal situation a new FKT would best both times.