Ben Nephew posted the route:
Whitehall and Upton State Parks in Eastern Massachusets have some of best singletrack in the region. I mapped out a route combining the trails in both parks that is about 20 miles, which is a long loop considering the average trail length in the area. The trails are not hilly, but they are winding to say the least.
Ben Nephew posted the route:
This is a 22 mile out and back on one of the most difficult sections of trail in New England. If the entire 114 mile Metacomet Monadnock trail is too long, but the 12 mile 7 Sisters trail race is too short, then you can connect sections 7 and 8 of the MM for a challenging 22 mile.
John Spinney posted the route, with a Strava segment to track the FKT.
While this is a short test it packs quite a punch. I'm not sure it even counts as something worthy of an FKT but I'm going to share this. Last wknd i ran hard up the steeper more technical side of the Pinnacle in Stowe, VT. Since not everyone uses strava i'd love to know what others have put up. The link is below. This is from the Stowe pinnacle parking lot. From the meadows parking lot i think sub 20 minutes is doable as the first half is not as technical and more runnable.
Ben Nephew posted the route:
The Pachaug Trail runs 24 miles from Green Fall Pond to route 138 in Griswold, CT. It is part of the CT Blue Blazed trail system, and is mostly singletrack with some jeep roads and a few short road crossings. Starting at Green Fall Pond, I ran the trail in 3:46:18 on 1/19/15.
This route links up 4 huts in Maine's Carrabassett Valley region. These are the Grand Falls Hut, the Flagstaff Hut, the Poplar Hut and the Stratton Brook Hut. The point-to-point route following the main trail from West Forks to Carrabasset Valley is 47.3 miles.
Brent Sitterly posted a VK route (below). But, this route starts at Pleasant Valley Road and is ~ 3500' vertical in 4.8 miles.
So I've been obsessed with the vertical kilometer event. Apparently there are at least two peak in Vermont that could support such an effort, Killington and Mansfield. I am going to attempt the only route I could find on Mansfield that will have 1000m of ascent.
Route: 1.7-ish miles down Mountain road from Underhill state park, up Eagle cut to the Laura Cowles trail.
Total vert: ~1000m
Total horiz: ~4.5 miles
Robert Rives posted the route:
This cross-state trail starts in the northwest corner of RI in the Buck Hill Management Area on the Massachusetts border and travels over a variety of surfaces to the beach east of Quonochontaug. You can find info concerning this trail at the following websites: www.rigreenways.org/paths/nst-data.htm, outdoors.htmlplanet.com/nst/nst_map00.htm
Cannon Cliff is a steep ridge cliff on the east side of Cannon Mountain in New Hampshire. The cliff has several climbs that link up to trails atop and on the sides to make up for several challenges of combining trail running and moderate climbing, taking into account the rules that climbing do not exceed 10%. This is the east coast equivalent to the Flatiron FKTs in Boulder. The routes starts at the climbers kiosk at the Profile Lake parking area.
There are two main trails that partly overlap in the Middlesex Fells (https://www.mass.gov/locations/middlesex-fells-reservation).
This is the Skyline Trail a 7 mile challenge.
jtumber posted:
I came here to see what the FKT is on my favorite local running route - the Middlesex Fells Skyline Trail! Turns out, there is no thread yet, so I guess I'll make the first post.