And I have an old fighting injury, which is one of my ribs pops out very easily, if I'm bent over in climbing position without my poles for too long.

So as soon as I packed my poles in, my rib pops out.

So then I'm like laying on rocks, trying to get like my rib to pop back in and we're like climbing up this hill that we didn't think was supposed to exist.

And at that point, you're just like a little bit crazy because you've been

running for 11 hours anyways.

Hey folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast.

I'm your host, Mason Gravely.

Today, we have an episode with Hillary Spire.

She is, gosh, she does a lot of things.

But what she's doing right now is a lot of FKTs, which are fastest known times.

If you don't know, they are the fastest times on a route, typically like an outdoor adventure route, whether it's, you know, a popular trail or a network of trails that create a loop.

People are doing those now just because you have to keep your

distance and a lot of events are canceled. So people are doing a certain route, uploading it to

fkT.com, and then competing with each other by who can do it the fastest. So that's an FKT. If you don't

know, and Hillary is doing a ton of those. But as you'll hear, she is a huge,

just sports enthusiast in general. She did this crazy challenge where she tried to do,

tried to try every sport in the world over 8,000 sports. She didn't get that very far into it, but through that,

she essentially found a new passion. And I love stuff like that. I love when you, you know,

kind of take your life or your fate even into your own hands and forge a new path for yourself.

You know, a lot of us wait on a passion to hit us or wait on a purpose to hit us.

And, you know, sometimes that works.

And a lot of times that does work, but a lot of times it doesn't as well.

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