{"id":3089,"date":"2011-08-03T05:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T05:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3089"},"modified":"2025-09-28T23:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:04:15","slug":"women-speed-hiker-sets-new-record-for-appalachian-trail-hike-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3089","title":{"rendered":"Woman speed hiker sets new record for Appalachian Trail hike-through"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueridgehikingco.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Jennifer Pharr Davis<\/a>, 27 year old woman, averaged 47 miles a day. Unlike 90% of through-hikers, she started in Maine and finished in Georgia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/news-from-the-field\/Woman-Beats-Record-for-Appalachian-Trail.html\" target=\"_self\">A 27-year-old woman set a new all-time speed record on the Appalachian Trail on Sunday, covering 2,180 miles in 46 days 11 hours and 20 minutes. Jennifer Pharr Davis, from North Carolina, beat Andrew Thompson&#39;s 2005 record of 47 days 13 hours 31 minutes by more than a day. Davis, no Appalachian Trail novice, had set the women&#39;s speed record of 57 days, 8 hours, 13 minutes in 2008.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was a supported hike, which means she had a team giving her some help &#8211; supplies, etc. If you are interested in the equipment she used &#8211; and her picture -&#0160;go here &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gearjunkie.com\/appalachian-trail-thru-hike-record-jennifer-pharr-davis\" target=\"_self\">the gear Davis used to make her long days and short nights doable.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Pharr Davis, 27 year old woman, averaged 47 miles a day. Unlike 90% of through-hikers, she started in Maine and finished in Georgia. A 27-year-old woman set a new all-time speed record on the Appalachian Trail on Sunday, covering 2,180 miles in 46 days 11 hours and 20 minutes. Jennifer Pharr Davis, from North [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089","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=3089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8747,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089\/revisions\/8747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}