Ep. 821: The King of FKTs - Part 1 - Jason Hardrath
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
BIG NEWS IN THE SHOW NOTES!
When a life-altering car accident upended Jason Hardrath's world, doctors said he'd never run again. Seven years later he has the most FKTs (Fastest Known Times) of anyone on earth. Now, he's on a journey to be the first person ever to set 100 FKT records.
When Jason was approaching his goal of 100 FKTs, he wanted to do something special for the last one. What sort of adventure would be worthy of number 100? After pouring over different options for routes and peaks he came across a challenge he couldn't resist, Washington's Bulger List, the highest 100 peaks in the state, a lifetime challenge for most that attempt it but Jason, being a teacher, only had 50 days in the summer to complete it.
Athletic Brewing was able to partner with the amazing folks at WZRD Media to film Jason’s adventure through the new documentary, Journey to 100. You find out more about the film, watch the trailer, and come see it on tour (Mason from Adventure Sports Podcast will be there!) at AthleticBrewing.com/Journeyto100.
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| 0:00.0 | Holy cow, folks, do I have some exciting news for y'all? By the way, this is the Adventure Sports podcast. I'm your host Mason. Welcome to the show today. Yeah, so the news is kind of under the radar at my day job athletic brewing. We have been producing a documentary that we just released to the world, |
| 0:39.8 | well, just the trailer, and we're getting ready to take the tour or the film on tour to a |
| 0:45.8 | couple different cities around the country. And I would love, absolutely love for the listeners |
| 0:51.9 | of this show to come out and support. So if you're going to be around |
| 0:55.5 | the weekend of April 23rd, we're going to be in Denver. Then the following weekend, |
| 1:01.7 | the 30th, we're going to be in Portland. And the weekend after that, we're going to be in Seattle. |
| 1:07.0 | And it is a film about Jason Hardrath story. The guest today, Jason, if you remember, |
| 1:14.2 | we had Jason on the show back in early 2020 when he was in pursuit of 100 fastest known times, |
| 1:22.2 | as they're called. That was episode 604. And he only had like 30 something then, like 32 or something. And they were crazy. |
| 1:30.2 | Some of these fastest known times, and if you don't remember what that is, that's just basically |
| 1:34.1 | doing a route faster than anyone's ever done it, whether that's the whole Appalachian Trail or |
| 1:39.4 | something short, you know, five miles long on a trail near your home. They all have fastest known times, |
| 1:46.4 | or a lot of them do. And if they don't, you can go establish one. But Jason wanted to be the first |
| 1:51.5 | person to get 100 FKTs, as they're called. And when we talked to them, and not just easy ones, |
| 1:57.2 | these are some huge ones. And so we were following the story over at Athletic Brewing |
| 2:02.4 | My Day Job. And when he was approaching a hundred, we're like, what are you going to do for your |
| 2:08.6 | hundredth? And he decided to do the unthinkable. He climbed a list called the Washington Bulgers, |
| 2:15.1 | which is a hundred mountains, the highest hundred peaks in Washington |
| 2:19.1 | State as his 100th fastest known time. So we decided to work with the film crew, a production |
| 2:27.1 | company on a Salt Lake City, Wizard Media, to produce a documentary about this adventure. So it started with Adventure Sports Podcast, and it kind of |
| 2:37.1 | transitioned over to Athletic Brewing. Jason is one of our pro athletes over at Athletic Brewing |
| 2:42.9 | now, and it's just been crazy to watch this whole thing unfold over the last two and a half years |
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