Women Who FKT with Teri Smith and Dana Katz (Episode 106)

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Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Want to challenge yourself without the pressure that comes with traditional competition? Feel like trying something new that won’t have you comparing your former self to your current self? This week’s guests Teri Smith and Dana Katz suggest trying an FKT, or fastest known time, a challenge where you run, hike, or in some cases bike or “multi-sport” along a route as quickly as you can to try and set an FKT. When perimenopause upended Teri’s competitive identity as an ultrarunner, her friend Dana coached her to complete an FKT—nearly 190 miles of traversing the Olympic Peninsula of Washington—and it transformed her life, as you’ll hear in her own words in this week’s show.

Dana is the owner and coach at UltraU in Portland and also coaches with Women who FKT. Teri is an avid backpacker, trail runner, cross country skier, and mom. They are both part of the Women Who FKT Project, a group of women who are on a mission to help more women and underserved minorities have meaningful adventures in the outdoors. You can learn more about them and their work at Women Who FKT.

Resources

Fastest Known Time Official Website

Women who FKT Instagram

Teri Smith and Stacey Lee’s FKT story

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0:00.0	You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.
0:14.6	I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers, and other experts to help
0:21.2	you feel and perform you best no matter what your hormones are doing. This show is a production
0:26.2	of Live Feisty Media.
0:31.3	Hello, strong, feisty women. So I have a fun one for you this week. It is all about FKTs, otherwise known as fastest known times. FKTs have been around a long, long time. But they got thrust into the spotlight during the pandemic because suddenly there were no races, events got shut down, and FKTs provided an outlet for people to challenge themselves in the outdoors.
1:00.4	Essentially, an FKT is just a run or hike or in some cases a bike ride along a very challenging route.
1:08.9	The white rim in Canyonlands, Utah is a good example. People like to run
1:14.9	the rim to rim to rim in the Grand Canyon as an FKT. There are dozens of them, and you can make up your
1:21.3	own as well by following the guidelines on the FKT website, which I'll include in the show notes.
1:28.0	The objective, as the name implies, is to set an unofficial record for completing a route,
1:34.1	which could be a single day, it could be multiple days long, in the shortest time possible.
1:40.5	And as you might guess, in many places, FKTs are set mostly by men.
1:46.4	And, well, this week's guess, Terry Smith and Dana Katz of women who FKT have taken it upon
1:53.0	themselves to change that.
1:55.0	And that experience has been transformational for them.
2:00.0	Not too long ago, Terry Smith thought she was done. She was once
2:04.4	an ultra runner. She found herself in her words as she approached her 50th birthday falling apart.
2:10.7	And she just figured that her running days were behind her. And then she meets Dana Katz,
2:16.7	the owner and coach of Ultra You in Portland,
2:19.7	who also coaches with women who FKT, and she finds herself embarking on a massive adventure.
2:26.3	She and another woman who FKTs, Stacey Lee, took on the Olympic Peninsula Traverse on the
2:32.2	Pacific Northwest Trail in Washington just this past August.
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