Fast or FOOLISH?! The Dark Truth about breaking a Fastest Known Time | Will Peterson, VT Long Trail

Trail Tales - Thru-Hiking & Backpacking

Kyle Hates Hiking

Wilderness, Sports, Sports:wilderness

4.9 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Go to https://www.GarageGrownGear.com/ for up to 25% off with sitewide deals! Don't miss their Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales! Will Peterson set the unsupported Fastest Known Time for the Vermont Long Trail in 2023. It's an incredible feat of athleticism, grit, and determination... but was it even worth it? Is an effort like this even fun, or is it just nothing but pain? What happens when someone else comes along and breaks your record? We talk about all this, and much, much more. Will's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_will.peterson/ Will's Podcast 'From the Backcountry': Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/from-the-backcountry/id1616882162 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0dkhShE2VGmusRdFz7MMfX?si=a9020fa4bc3249bc Subscribe to my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@KyleHatesHiking Follow me on Instagram 📸: https://www.instagram.com/kylehateshiking/ For sponsorships, business inquiries, or guest/episode ideas reach out to: [email protected]

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0:00.0	This is a little spicy of a question.
0:01.7	Did you have any fun on this effort at all?
0:04.4	You're barely sleeping.
0:05.7	You're not even eating.
0:06.5	You're passing all these beautiful areas.
0:08.5	You're miserable 85, 90% of the time.
0:11.2	Where's the joy in that?
0:12.5	During this effort was any part of it fun at all.
0:15.9	85 to 90% of this effort was like I wanted to quit.
0:23.5	What's going on everybody? Welcome to Trail Tales. My name is Kyle O'Grady. I'm a huge
0:28.5	hiking nerd and every single week on this podcast I chat with other hiking nerds about their
0:33.8	experiences on the trail. Will Peterson is the amazing guest on the show this week.
0:39.1	Will recently set the unsupported,
0:41.8	fastest known time on the Vermont Long Trail.
0:44.5	We talk all about that, and we talk about
0:46.7	if it's even worth it.
0:48.4	Like, is something like that even fun?
0:50.4	Why even bother doing it?
0:52.4	You can't even enjoy it.
0:53.6	Not only is Will, ultra-runner and record
0:56.3	setter, but he's also just a backpacker. He's hiked the Appalachian Trail the entire thing. He's
1:01.3	super awesome and you guys are really going to enjoy this one, especially if you can get past
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