A professional runner from Colorado recently completed the 2,189-mile Appalachian Trail in a record 40 days time. She told Fox News Digital about her experience.
A woman recently ran the entire length of the Appalachian Trail, beating the fastest known time by 13 hours. Tara Dower is a 31-year-old professional runner who recently ran the roughly 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail on the East Coast in about 40 days. The woman from Boulder, Colorado, told Fox News Digital she had previously hiked the trail but not nearly as fast.
In 2019, I thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail in five months and 10 days, and then, from there, I wanted to get into the fastest known time attempts to go faster on trails,' she said. This time around, Dower decided she wanted to beat the fastest known time to complete the Appalachian Trail, which had been roughly 41 days and seven hours, she said. Having been a runner her entire life, Dower said she was already in great shape prior to the attempt, but this effort was a challenge.
It was 40 days, and there’s just so much to experience out there,' she said. 'There are really hard days where I couldn’t stop crying.' Dower said she ran roughly 75-80% of the trail with a pacer, so she wasn’t alone the entire time, but she said many times she struggled mentally. 'I was just sleep-deprived, and sometimes I’d have little hallucinations that would come into play,' she said, adding she also tripped and fell many times throughout the journey.
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