{"id":1721,"date":"2017-09-04T11:23:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T11:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2025-09-29T18:07:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:07:24","slug":"new-appalachian-trail-speed-record-crushing-the-old-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1721","title":{"rendered":"New Appalachian Trail speed record; crushing the old one(s)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow an unsupported &quot;hike&quot; that wiped out both the supported and unsupported records. McConaughy is a former Boston College cross country and track runner. he&#39;s in his mid-20&#39;s now and averaged 48 miles a day. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d2a72392970c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Joe mcconaghy\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d2a72392970c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d2a72392970c-200wi\" style=\"width: 180px;\" title=\"Joe mcconaghy\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gearjunkie.com\/appalachian-trail-unsupported-supported-speed-record-fkt-string-bean?utm_source=Gear+Junkie+Weekly+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=24ea5575a3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_4761d8db2c-24ea5575a3-4834085\">Joe \u2018Stringbean\u2019 McConaughy, a well-known speed hiker, set a new record on the Appalachian Trail today. He hiked the 2,190-mile route in an unofficial fastest known time (FKT) of 45 days, 12 hours, 15 minutes.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And this from the Washington Post &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/travel\/sprint-to-the-finish-yields-a-new-appalachian-trail-record\/2017\/09\/02\/4326ff3a-8ff2-11e7-9c53-6a169beb0953_story.html\">A former Boston College cross-country runner has traversed the 2,190-mile (3,524-kilometer) Appalachian Trail in record time after a sleepless, 37-hour sprint to the top of Maine\u2019s Mount Katahdin.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">His unofficial time beats the previous best by about 10 hours and McConaughy says he did it without outside help. He says he mailed his food and supplies before starting in Georgia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The Seattle native used global-positioning data and social media time stamps to back his claim. The Appalachian Trail Conference doesn\u2019t keep official records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow an unsupported &quot;hike&quot; that wiped out both the supported and unsupported records. McConaughy is a former Boston College cross country and track runner. he&#39;s in his mid-20&#39;s now and averaged 48 miles a day. Joe \u2018Stringbean\u2019 McConaughy, a well-known speed hiker, set a new record on the Appalachian Trail today. He hiked the 2,190-mile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7859,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions\/7859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}