Timothy Olson | PCT FKT Recap
The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman
Dylan Bowman
5 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2021
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Timothy "Mirage" Olson returns to the podcast to share the story of his recent successful FKT mission on the Pacific Crest Trail - a 2600 mile quest from Mexico to Canada.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up? How is it going, everyone? I hope all is great in your world. I hope you are all having incredible summers |
| 0:22.3 | filled with fun and adventure wherever this podcast finds you. As always, I so appreciate you |
| 0:29.5 | being here for another episode that was just an absolute joy to record. Today, I again host my |
| 0:36.2 | good friend, Mr. Timothy Olson, for his second appearance on the |
| 0:39.9 | podcast. Timothy appeared on the show for the first time back in May, just before setting off |
| 0:45.4 | on a fastest known time, speed record attempt on the Pacific Crest Trail. And as I'm sure, |
| 0:52.3 | most of you know by now, Timothy was successful in achieving this |
| 0:57.1 | mission. He did manage to establish a new FKT on the 2,600 mile PCT traveling from Mexico to Canada |
| 1:08.3 | in just an astonishing time of 51 days, |
| 1:11.6 | 16 hours and 55 minutes, |
| 1:15.6 | wrapping things up just a couple of weeks ago. |
| 1:18.6 | I was very fortunate to spend a single day |
| 1:22.6 | of his 51 day mission out on the trail with Tim |
| 1:26.6 | as he passed through the Eastern Sierra as |
| 1:29.4 | I was training in Mammoth as I got ready for Hard Rock. |
| 1:33.5 | And wow, was it an amazing thing to behold? |
| 1:38.0 | Tim is such a special dude and I am so excited. |
| 1:42.1 | I got him back on the show so that we could all hear a little bit more |
| 1:46.1 | about his journey and its immediate aftermath which as you'll hear has not been especially easy |
| 1:52.9 | which I guess is unsurprising but thank you so much to Tim for coming back on the show I hope you |
| 1:58.8 | guys really enjoy this episode and And before we get to it, |
| 2:01.9 | I wanted to just quickly share a bit of personal news with you all, the wonderful, loyal listeners |
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