A woman recently ran the entire length of the Appalachian Trail, beating the fastest known time by 13 hours.
Tara Dower, a 31-year-old professional runner, 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.
