Post by wildplans on Jul 24, 2013 0:25:11 GMT -5
Hey folks, great to be part of the community. I love this movement and the sense of exploration and adventure inherent in it.
I spend a lot of time traveling in non-English speaking countries where FKT communities don't exist or at least aren't obvious.
I would like to log times for runs in these parts of the world but would like to discuss the following :
1. While I've not been able to find times mentioned online, is the absence if this evidence enough to declare a FKT?
2. Is this board adequate for "declaring my intentions" or should I aim to do so via Facebook/my blog etc?
3. Given I only speak English and poor Spanish, should I be expected to declare my intentions in another language?
4. Where the two points that define the Start and Finish of a trail are debatable, is it acceptable to define these boundaries myself in the claim?
For example: Yesterday I visited Tiger Leaping Gorge in Yunnan Province, China. I don't speak a lick of Mandarin and the only evidence I could find of someone having run b the trail at all referred to a one way Journey. I ran up and back to the start point, self-supported in 9:21:20. Most hikers start and finish at one particular Guesthouse so I did too. There is some debate about where the trail ends but I turned around at the point most hikers do and where the trail joins the road (this is trail running after all!). I recorded the run on two separated GPS devices and previously declared my intentions on Facebook (I was pretty confident no one was coming out for a look haha). While I'm sure locals have done the out and back before (it was a trading route originally) and probably quicker than me due to acclimatisation and familiarity, I've no way of knowing for sure.
Would love your thoughts.
Cheers -Tegyn
I spend a lot of time traveling in non-English speaking countries where FKT communities don't exist or at least aren't obvious.
I would like to log times for runs in these parts of the world but would like to discuss the following :
1. While I've not been able to find times mentioned online, is the absence if this evidence enough to declare a FKT?
2. Is this board adequate for "declaring my intentions" or should I aim to do so via Facebook/my blog etc?
3. Given I only speak English and poor Spanish, should I be expected to declare my intentions in another language?
4. Where the two points that define the Start and Finish of a trail are debatable, is it acceptable to define these boundaries myself in the claim?
For example: Yesterday I visited Tiger Leaping Gorge in Yunnan Province, China. I don't speak a lick of Mandarin and the only evidence I could find of someone having run b the trail at all referred to a one way Journey. I ran up and back to the start point, self-supported in 9:21:20. Most hikers start and finish at one particular Guesthouse so I did too. There is some debate about where the trail ends but I turned around at the point most hikers do and where the trail joins the road (this is trail running after all!). I recorded the run on two separated GPS devices and previously declared my intentions on Facebook (I was pretty confident no one was coming out for a look haha). While I'm sure locals have done the out and back before (it was a trading route originally) and probably quicker than me due to acclimatisation and familiarity, I've no way of knowing for sure.
Would love your thoughts.
Cheers -Tegyn
