Jessica Marion set the Presidential Traverse FKT on September 13th...and then reset it again on September 28th after Britta Clark stole it a week later. What a time for FKTs and competition. No record is safe for long!
Jessica competed and placed 8th at the World Mountain Running Championships last year going head to head with some of the best runners in the country. She has done one 50 miler, the Vermont 50 in 2018 but keeps her legs speedy doing shorter trail races on the east coast. She came to the sport while working at a ski mountain and has history here in Ithaca at Cornell. We're hoping she comes back soon and maybe race her second 50 miler at Cayuga. Just putting it out there.
In this conversation, Jessica takes us through her running history and what it felt to get 8th at a championship race. She details working on a mountain how the outdoors drew her to trail running. We go through her FKT, the first and second one, and what she changed from the first to take the FKT back just two weeks later.
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