Fitness

A place to talk about fitness and health on Farcaster.

tara dower just set the record for fastest known time on the appalachian trail 

2,189 miles in 40 days 18 hours 5 minutes (~50 miles a day)

she only took 3 showers the entire time

and she raised $34,000 for Girls on the Run NPO while doing so

absolute beast mode

tara dower just set the record for fastest known time on the appalachian trail 

2,189 miles in 40 days 18 hours 5 minutes (~50 miles a day)

she only took 3 showers the entire time

and she raised $34,000 for Girls on the Run NPO while doing so

absolute beast mode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nf46hTQgwY

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I feel strange about 'records' being set on trails. 

Part of the appeal for me in nature is to get away from competition and social media. Looking at the incentives of this feat, it likely will draw more ppl pursuing breaking records. 

Anyone else have negative sentiment around this?

Agreed on a lot of pts

It's not a gender issue. I have a similar negative sentiment when I see male rock climbers speed 'sending' routes on mountains

I can respect and applaud the training required to achieve incredible feats, but applying personal records to areas I would rather keep sacred is where I have conflict

Tara is not the first person to attempt and achieve a FKT, her doing this is not going to suddenly open a flood of people racing on the Appalachian trail 

She ran 2,000 miles in 40 days - there is an extremely small subset of humans who are 1) physically capable of doing this 2) willing to put the work in to properly train and 3) have a team who will support and follow them for over a month 

Humans have been driven to set records since the dawn of time - the marathon and olympics were created in ancient Greece 3,000 years ago. We can appreciate slow living while simultaneously applauding superhuman efforts, especially when they do something a lot of the world thinks they’re incapable of doing bc of their gender