FKT, WR? NGAF
Nobody gives a fuck about your FKT or World Record. Nobody gives a fuck about your FKT or World Record. Seriously. Both are stunts on a continuum. In Before Times, a John Muir Trail FKT was the Holy Grail. Sometime in the 90s Blake Wood did it out of curiosity, having backpacked it with his dad over ten times as a teen. Fast forward to now. Why anyone would want to race thru spectacular Sierra topography is beyond me. But they do. There have been some hilarious misfires on JMT FKT's , one noted here. Actual races, on a defined course, with a disinterested party running the clock is where bullshit gets taken to the woodshed. This is also where the Last Man Standing idea is brutally savage. World Records are a different animal. Like how many London cabs can you jump over with a pogo stick sort of thing. Things you can argue about while drinking. The Guardian keeps an eye on this . Sharp minds have seen ways to game that genre. World Records are a personal obsession that is bent to mo...