Karel Sabbe | FKT Legend & Barkley Marathons Finisher
The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman
Dylan Bowman
5 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
- Karel's early exposure to long trail hiking
- The original inspiration to pursue FKTs
- The psychological and spiritual space Karel discovers in long efforts
- Karel's two completions on the PCT
- Comparing and contrasting the AT and the PCT
- Tara Dower's new AT FKT and their different approaches
- Karel's brother-in-law and crew chief
- Lessons from his 2023 Barkley finish
- Announcing his next big project beginning early next year
- A lot more!
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| 1:19.3 | Today we're joined by Carl Sabe, a trail runner for On living in Belgium, who is most well |
| 1:25.9 | known for his prowess in Long Trail FKTs, a subcategory of |
| 1:30.9 | the sport where Carl is arguably the best of all time, the FKT goat. Most notably, Carl set the Pacific |
| 1:38.9 | Crest Trail, FKT in 2016, the Appalachian Trail FKT in 2018, the Via Alpina FKT in 2021, and the PCT FKT again in |
| 1:49.8 | 23. |
| 1:50.9 | Not to be overshadowed, he is also a Barkley Marathons finisher and Biggs backyard Ultra |
| 1:57.7 | World Champion, as is probably obvious, the longer and harder the adventures, |
| 2:04.2 | the more Carl excels, providing great fodder for an amazing conversation here today. |
| 2:10.5 | Honestly, I really, really loved this chance to connect with Carl. |
| 2:13.5 | It's hard to fully describe, but there's definitely something special about this guy, and it was an honor to explore it a bit in today's episode. |
| 2:22.7 | Some topics we discussed. |
| 2:23.8 | Carl's early exposure to long trail hiking and the original inspiration to pursue FKTs. |
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