FKT: Meghan Bongartz - Lamoille Valley Rail Trail (VT) - 2021-06-26

I learned from a friend that the LVRT is an FKT route, and when I looked it up I realized that the women's time wouldn't be much of a challenge for me. I decided to run it in the uphill direction for bonus suffering. I've run part of this trail segment before, so I knew going in that the climbing grade is deceptively hard. This was an unsupported run; I was dropped off at the start and jogged back to a pickup point by Joe's Pond after finishing, but carried my own water and gels and had no spectators on the course. It was a pretty gross, humid day, so it was a tough run, but the trail itself is lovely. I overshot the actual route a bit. The completed trail segment very clearly ends at Channel Drive, but the previous record holder started a bit over Channel so I crossed and tried to hit the same mileage on my Garmin just to be sure I had my bases covered.