FKT: Katie Wolpert - Bickle Knob Observation Tower (WV) - 2020-04-18

Athletes
Route variation
up & back
Gender category
Female
Style
Unsupported
Finish date
Total time
1h 5m 17s
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I had a Garmin on this but the watch froze up on me before I had a chance to get the data off of it. I had to perform a factory reset which wiped the data clean. I am planning to run this again to get a GPS track/official data/faster time. So here it is! In my activitiy report, I remembered the total distance, time at the top, and finish time exactly. The splits are definitely all not correct.

Well boy did this get messed up. The run worked. Worked well. But I have not yet been able to acquire the official data due to some official technical difficulties.

30 degrees? but the blowing snow stopped right before I started running. Miles were something like 8:30, 9:15, 10:40, 10:15, 7:35, 5:35, 6:30, 5:57, 1:17. Time at the top of the tower was 40:30 on the nose so 40:30 up and 24:47 back down.

Snow in the woods but the road was clear save for that one exposed tight corner; mostly just frozen gravel. In a cloud from about 2 miles in. 1 car. Headwind on the way back down. Good day to run up a mountain hard by yourself.

Nothing officially on the books for this route though local lore exists. I haven't been able to dig up any women's times even on the local lists so this was my bid to put something out there. Please go beat it! (hopefully I'll get this watch working and get the data off it soon) Total elapsed time is correct. Splits are definitely not. But I started at the start of the gravel, tagged the top of the fire tower with the bottoms of my shoes and finished back at the gravel/blacktop split.