It’s a strong time in the women’s unsupported category. However, in order to claim an FKT several pieces of information are both required and helpful. Announce your attempt in advance - to receive attention afterward, you should also bring attention to your project before and during as well. Primarily entail running and hiking. In September, McElveen set out to best the 3-day and 21-hour unsupported bikepacking FKT on the Colorado Trail. Noticing a void in record keeping for these types of attempts, they launched the FKT website, using the term coined by Bill Wright, co-author of Speed Climbing: How to Climb Faster and Better.The site catalogs stats on routes, times, athletes and more. There are intricacies of each type that are argued, sometimes vehemently, one way or the other – such as whether or not a team of people can be considered unsupported – but those should be worked out ahead of time by communicating the specifics of the FKT attempt. That includes a person who started with you but dropped out partway, but it doesn't include random strangers you may meet along the way. FKT is an abbreviation for ‘Fastest Known Time’. Thanks for your support! To get a Supported FKT you also have to beat the fastest Self-Supported and Unsupported times. Ropes may not be employed for more than 10% of the Elapsed Time, and climbing grades 5.8/5a and harder even without a rope are considered climbing, not running or hiking. For most people, carrying enough food for more than a few days to one week will be prohibitive. An epic FKT The John Muir Trail (JMT They allow people to push themselves in different ways without the constraints or crowds normally associated with large-scale races. Mark Forums Read; Quick Links. The TRT FKT. UNSUPPORTED is a short documentary about extraordinary folks attempting to get the fastest known time (FKT) on the John Muir Trail (JMT) without any help. Most long thru-hiking routes are done Self-Supported. Running the 93 miles of the Wonderland Trail is no easy task. Modern FKT attempts are enormously challenging and debilitating. I thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail in 2018 as a way to escape the hamster wheel and spend some good quality time in the US of A after being away for several years. An attempt at breaking the Long Trail unsupported Fastest Known Time (Speed Record). Self-Supported means you may have as much support as you can manage or find along the way, but not from any pre-arranged people helping you. In September, McElveen hit the road to becoming the best the 3-day and 21-hour unsupported bikepacking FKT on the Colorado Trail . On summits, there often are separate variations for "Ascent" and "Up and Down". This naturally limits the length of an Unsupported trip. The John Muir Trail (JMT) is the OG Fastest Known Time (FKT). or add/upload a FKT This site is not intended to be an official record of FKT’s, but a compilation. If you completed a route but came up short of a new FKT, post a comment on the route page letting everyone know what you did. Rather, athletes must provide data from a satellite tracker such as the Garmin InReach or SPOT, which have worldwide tracking and real-time position monitoring capabilities. Movie… Continue Reading → Despite spraining his knee and running out of water with twenty miles to go, Danny finished in … There is no “leaderboard”. The main process for easy verification involves the submission of tracking data, photos, and the tried-and-true trip report. When a new FKT is entered, e.g., someone beat the previous speed record of the route, the claim is verified and stands until it is broken by someone else. ANDREW BENTZ – Unsupported FKT – Totally gets it done! The Long Trail is the oldest long distance trail in the USA and a hotbed of incredible FKT accomplishments. I was lucky enough to catch Unsupported during the Trail In Motion Film Festival international tour, and the documentary also showed at the Trail Running Film Festival held in Seattle in 2018. Long Trail FKT Announcement. According to the FKT website, the definition for each type of FKT is as follows: Supported means you have a dedicated support team that meets you along the way to supply whatever you need. I wanted to share my trip report (brief version) as I submitted the the FKT site. The previous men’s unsupported mark of 1 day, 20 hours and 8 minutes was set by Eli Burakian of Brownsville, Vt., in May 2019 when he hiked the trail carrying a heavy pack in preparation for a thru-hike of the Long Trail. There are no Age Groups or same gender teams. I saw Amy Rusiecki’s name was up there (women’s supported FKT on the Midstate Trail, 23:57:28) and thought that was really cool, so I hatched a plan to go for it.” Cutler opted to make his FKT attempt in the unsupported style, with no crew and no gear drops along the way. Taking a more measured approach to the JMT than Anderson or Shelton, Megan Armstrong was able to make a modest improvement in the women’s unsupported FKT, hiking from the summit of Whitney (Armstrong failed to get a permit to hike from Whitney Portal and so ascended Whitney from the north) to Yosemite in 6d2h44m (Aug. 16-22), 3h21m faster than Michelle Jung’s 2013 time. Not everything is not an FKT Route. After 22 days, Karl was at 956.9 miles, though across the challenging northern terrain. Fastest Known Time attempts (also known as FKTs) are, in the simplest terms, speed records for trails and established routes. This is commonly done a couple different ways: You might put out stashes of supplies for yourself prior to the trip, or you might just use what’s out there, such as stores, begging from other trail users, etc. Unsupported means you have no external support of any kind. Th… Climbing, cycling, paddling, skiing, and other sports are great, and we may establish separate categories for them in the future, but not at this time. Although there is no official sanctioned body that is the keeper of official records, the best resource for finding and contributing FKTs is the forum at the Fastest Known Time website run by ultramarathoner Peter Bakwin. Likewise, If a Mixed Gender Team has fastest time, an individual going Supported must also must be faster than the Team time (an individual going Unsupported or Self-supported does not have to beat the Mixed Gender time). Report: New Unsupported Joshua Tree Double Traverse FKT The Other Double: UTMB and Tor des Geants New Dog Mt. Lucrezi ascended and descended the peak, covering 22 miles and 6,000 feet of vert, in 5 hours, 29 minutes and 22 seconds for an Unsupported FKT. To get a Self-Supported FKT you also have to beat the fastest Unsupported time. Danny Mejia ’17 set an unsupported FKT (fastest known time) of the 100-Mile Wilderness, often regarded as the wildest sections of the Appalachian Trail (AT).