Fastest Known Time: 40 Days on the Appalachian Trail

In her deeply inspiring memoir, the ultrarunner who covered more than fifty miles a day on the Appalachian Trail for forty straight days tells the story of her gutsy, transcendent, and record-shattering odyssey.

Tara Dower shocked the endurance running community when she set what’s referred to as the Fastest Known Time on the Appalachian Trail. It was 2024, when she was a little-known athlete who still worked at REI. Everyone wanted to know: how did this young woman just redefine what was co...