Started from the Denny creek sign at about 4:15am. Wasn’t 100% I could push for this FKt but wanted to bet on myself and push myself. Surprisingly passed a group of hikers about a mile in, trail was in phenomenal shape given the work that was performed on it last year. Hit Melekwa lake 3 minutes under my 1hr goal, kept pushing hard up to Melekwa pass where I enter some clouds and had a bit of concerns making my way across the side country with limited visibility. Kept moving and pushing and eventually found the trail leading to Gem Lake. Managed to take a roller coaster of a social trail around the lake which was extremely frustrating but I hit the main trail at about 1:48 with a lot of confidence as long as I could get up and over the short snow lake pass climb. Thankfully downhill running is my jam and I turned it on for the long descent. Flew past the Alpental Snow lake trailhead at the 2:36 mark (hitting the TH to TH FKT) and knew I had the FKT in the bag, but thought that if I keep pushing I could go sub 3hours. Thankfully it was all downhill road running from there. Hitting my fastest 5k ever on strava to close out the FKT in 2:59:20!!