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Day 738.9 MilesEdit: This Part wrote after FKT
My goal for the trail had been to finish in under 7 days....that did not happen.  7 days would have been a tough time to beat, but the lazy day on day 3 and 4 made it so that I couldnt postion myself close enough to the finish to push.  

Day 7 was almost poetic to me because after a 5 mile climb in the rain up and 4 miles down I hit the MST and for the entirety of the day was on what I called the "Old MST" following the path it took for years before a 2021 rerouting to the Blue Ridge Parkway.  Originally when I hiked the MST in 2017 I tried to get an FKT and so dancing on the trail all day felt like a success after so many MST FKT failures.  

Unfotunalye it also rained, all day for the first time all trail on me and it was a cold rain.this resulted in me not taking a break until mile 25 and by the time the sun set, somehow I only had hiked around 34 miles.  While i cannot confirm anything, i think the miles were getting to me....
At the end of the day, faced with 15 miles left listening to NPR in the dark in the rain i decided that a super competitive record, while nice was not worth walking through the night to the end of the trail.  I wanted to make Mt. Collins shelter but once again, to reflect how tired i was, I couldnt muster the 2 mile uphill to that and instead collapsed at a trail intersection and as it turns out, on a bed of poison ivy.

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Benton Mackaye Trail Unsupported FKT Day 7 Actual 38.9 miles

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