Back in May, I started to write out a list of summer adventure ideas. This list remains pinned – by a brilliantly colored unicorn pin – to a small corkboard by my bed. Most of the ideas on this list were mountain ranges I wanted to visit or peaks I wanted to run. But with races all cancelled, a few of these ideas were for hard, race-like efforts in the mountains. I’ve stared at that scrap of paper with the words “Teton Crest Trail FKT” for months now. Seven years ago, I backpacked the Teton Crest Trail while living in Ashton, ID spending a summer doing trout research. The trail stretches from Teton Pass 40 miles north to the base of Paintbrush Canyon in Grand Teton National Park. From my walk a few years back, I have fond memories of fields of wildflowers, sweeping views, and gorgeous singletrack. The Teton Crest Trail is such a stunning trail, I wanted to see how efficiently I could move along it. With that, at 6:30am on Thursday, July 30th, I started running from the Phillips Pass Trailhead.