“Two hikers with separate agendas and hiking solo, unaware of the other, set out to break the record for fastest time in completing the Pacific Crest Trail, a grueling, 2,650-mile test for thru-hikers…”
“Heather “Anish” Anderson, a previously overweight high school student who dreamed of one day setting some sort of athletic record, and Josh Garrett, a dedicated vegan raising awareness for Mercy For Animals, both succeeded in their quests, and did so within a day of each other.”
“I carried all of my gear the entire way. I did not have a crew of people meeting me. When I needed supplies, I walked into and out of towns, which added about 30 miles total to my hike…”
“I cry when I think about all the things I have overcome to get here, both on this hike and off. It makes me ever so grateful to that chubby girl who dared to dream big, audacious dreams. I am even more thankful that she grew up to be a woman courageous enough to make those dreams reality.”
“Her dreams came true…reaching the Canadian border by averaging nearly 44 miles a day.”
“The Pacific Crest Trail stretches from the Mexican border to the Canadian border through mostly National Forest and protected wilderness in California, Oregon and Washington.”
“I have never felt an adrenaline rush like I did the last 2 miles,” she wrote on Facebook. “I literally could not feel my body. All I heard was my breathing as I careened through thick brush and plowed through streams.”
Read Entire Article here.
- Source: GrindTV.com: Speed records for Pacific Crest Trail set less than day apart
- *SMWI = Saturday Morning Work-out Inspiration
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Very inspiring.
It is and they are.
44 miles a day???? I’m happy with 11 km!
Yes, can you imagine that. The blisters they must have!
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Thanks for sharing Oyia
44 miles/day, impressive indeed! Thx for this inspiration boost, David!
Crazy, right?! Although you probably do that much on Jacob’s ladder every morning.
Insane. It’s a challenge I’d love to take on one day, but don’t think I could do it alone…I’d want someone to gab with. As for Jacob and I, we’re close, I admit it, but we don’t spend *quite* that much time together each day…. 😉
Can you imagine doing it yourself? Amazing. At least you and Jacob are in the comforts of air-conditioning and a Lady’s Room.
Brava!! I just wish she hadn’t defined herself as ‘a chubby girl who dreamed big’ – I wish she had always valued her sense of the intrepid – period.
EH! We all start at different places! Cut the girl some slack. It’s not where we start but where we finish, right?! 🙂
Yes – and that’s the title of a Broadway song too btw..
wow. beautiful story. inspiring!
It is Vicki
Wow, absolutely amazing! What can’t you do when you realize a dream like this?
And she dreams big. To walk by yourself. That entire way. Incredible.
Really nice story. All it takes is changing your mindset and dreaming big. I bet even Roly Poly Rocky could do this one. But only if the big dreams could stop being about food. 🙂
Oh boy! Someone rolled out of bed (late) and is attacking. Pay back time is coming. Just you wait.
🙂
I can relate to her not being to feel your body when the body is with one in the whole universe. Nothing exist but the universe.
I only feel that way in the midst of eating a dish of heaping pasta (at one with the whole universe). Never during exercise.
Inspiring story. She was very courageous too! Wow
She is!