Scott Jurek has broken Appalachian Trail speed record: 46 days, 8 hrs, and 8 minutes

Tar.Aldarion

He hurt his knee after 250 miles so did not get the 42 days he wanted. Great job though! Crazy to think what I've been doing for the last month and a half and he has been there running all that time. Was thinking about reading his book.



An amazing feat that before him, after decades of men holding records on it, a woman hiked it and got the record (she ran a bit too mind):

For the last 40 years, men have held the Appalachian Trail record. In the last 20, it's been confined to an elite club of ultra runners who typically covered the requisite 30 to 50 miles per day in an 11- to 13-hour period. Conventional wisdom suggested that breaking the record would mean running faster with the same strategy. And a new record holder would most certainly be male.
Pharr Davis, 28, took the standard strategy and turned it upside down. Moving from north to south, she covered the trail’s 2,181 miles by hiking for 16 hours a day beginning at 4:45 in the morning and walking well into darkness. To stick to an average pace of 47 miles a day, she slept on the trail or at road crossings to eliminate needless commute times to and from the trail. Her husband, Brew Davis, served as the support crew.
Pharr Davis trained by hiking rather than running—and the novel approach worked. By the time she reached the trail’s southern terminus at Springer Mountain, Georgia, she had trimmed 26 hours off the previous record with a time of 46 days, 11 hours, and 20 minutes.

Cabaal

Its impressive stuff alright, his book is def worth a read