JEFF Garmire has established a new self -supported speed record on the trail of the Apalaches, completing the path of approximately 2,200 miles south in 45 days, 8 hours and 37 minutes. The record is still pending official verification for the fastest known time, the organization that supervises the speed records on the long distance paths.
The fastest known time distinguishes between «supported» and «self -supported» records on long paths such as the AT. Garmire established the self -supported record, which means that he carried all his own food and equipment, handled his own results and did not have the benefit of a support team along the way. The previous self -supported record was 45 days, 12 hours and 15 minutes, established by Joe «Stringbean» McConaough in 2017.
«I get the adventure of his life in 45 days, and it is very difficult to believe that he can go to sleep tonight and not have to put an alarm,» Garmire said on a social network. reel From the southern end.
In the process, he raised more than $ 27,000 for the non -profit organization of suicide prevention Trevor projectwhich provides services to save lives to young LGBT. Garmire has talked about his own experience with the suicidal ideation, saying that it was a large part of his decision to walk for the Triple Crown calendar year in 2016 (walking along the paths of the Apalaches, Pacific Crest and Continental divides in a year, a feat that achieved in record time).
«I did the triple crown of the calendar year that year, 8,000 miles of until the future, trying to find a way to fit in the world, to avoid taking my own life. But this time I have a life that I love,» he said in a separate reel Assumed on the last day of this year in the record. «Come back and rewrite these steps … It has been one of the most great things.»
Garmire has established numerous FKT On other long paths, including the records of the Colorado, Arizona, Long, Continental, Northwest and John Muir trails, as well as in the Triple Crown album.
Outstanding image through Jeff Garmire On Instagram
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