Trip Reports: MST Segment 10
Nathan Toben's Trip Report/ Mountains-to-Sea-Trail: Segment 10/ Date: October 21st, 2020/ Time: 7:00am EST - 7:24:16 EST/ Supported FKT: 12:24:19/ The run started to plan. I was surprised to see ~25 people (family, friends, trail stewards, and many kids and staff from Triangle BikeWorks) braving the dark, foggy morning to stand in the Pleasant Green Trail Access parking lot and count me down. It felt like a legit race send-off as I headed down the trail at 7am sharp. The first few miles are some of the most technical on the entire Segment 10 route. My plan was to ease down from 10-minute miles to give my proprioception time to warm up. I found myself settling in to mid-8-minute miles - probably too fast. However, movements through thin ropes of fog felt efficient, so I went with it. The first snag was - due to the weather and thick riverside canopy - the Spot Trace GPS tracker could not find a signal. I was confident that there would be more than sufficient evidence for FKT verifi...