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Woman sets Appalachian Trial fastest-hike record
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August 3, 2011, Wednesday
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JENNIFER Pharr Davis set the unofficial record for the fastest hike of the entire Appalachian Trail, yet she said she never ignored the beauty of the 3,500-kilometer trek down the eastern US.
She saw 36 bears, moose, porcupines and just about every sunrise and sunset during her journey, which lasted exactly 46 days, 11 hours, and 20 minutes since she left Mount Katahdin in Maine on June 16.
"Fastest is so relative," Davis said yesterday after estimating she had slept about 30 of the past 48 hours. "My average was 3 mph (4.8 kph). So what are you not going to see at 3 mph (4.8 kph)?"
The 28-year-old emerged from the woods Sunday with her husband by her side and walked to the granite slab on Springer Mountain in Georgia at the trail's southern end. There cheering for her were her parents and dozens of other family members and friends.
"There were a lot of tears. Everyone was like, 'Are those happy tears?' I just said they're everything tears. I'm so happy. In a way, I'm sad it's over. I'm tired. It was just like every emotion was coming out at once," Davis said.
She had gone through five pairs of hybrid hiking and running shoes while averaging about 75 kilometers a day, or nearly two marathons.
No one keeps official speed records for the trail, but Davis said she broke Andrew Thompson's 2005 mark for the fastest supported "thru hike" by just over 24 hours.
She saw 36 bears, moose, porcupines and just about every sunrise and sunset during her journey, which lasted exactly 46 days, 11 hours, and 20 minutes since she left Mount Katahdin in Maine on June 16.
"Fastest is so relative," Davis said yesterday after estimating she had slept about 30 of the past 48 hours. "My average was 3 mph (4.8 kph). So what are you not going to see at 3 mph (4.8 kph)?"
The 28-year-old emerged from the woods Sunday with her husband by her side and walked to the granite slab on Springer Mountain in Georgia at the trail's southern end. There cheering for her were her parents and dozens of other family members and friends.
"There were a lot of tears. Everyone was like, 'Are those happy tears?' I just said they're everything tears. I'm so happy. In a way, I'm sad it's over. I'm tired. It was just like every emotion was coming out at once," Davis said.
She had gone through five pairs of hybrid hiking and running shoes while averaging about 75 kilometers a day, or nearly two marathons.
No one keeps official speed records for the trail, but Davis said she broke Andrew Thompson's 2005 mark for the fastest supported "thru hike" by just over 24 hours.
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