A woman recently ran the entire length of the Appalachian Trail, beating the fastest known time by 13 hours.
Tara Dower, a 31-year-old professional runner, recently ran the roughly 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail on the East Coast in about 40 days.
The woman from Boulder, Colorado, told Fox News Digital she had previously hiked the trail but not nearly as fast.
Having been a runner her entire life, Dower said she was already in great shape prior to the attempt, but this effort was a challenge.
“It was 40 days, and there’s just so much to experience out there,” she said. “There [were] really hard days where I couldn’t stop crying.”
Dower said she ran roughly 75-80% of the trail with a pacer, so she wasn’t alone the entire time, but she said many times she struggled mentally.