Mental Health and Perseverance on the Appalachian Trail with Tara Dower - Speed Record Holder for the A.T.

The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

Crossroads

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The first time Tara Dower got on the Appalachian Trail, she only lasted a handful of days before anxiety and mental health forced her to abandon her goal of through-hiking the 2,000 mile footpath. But she didn’t give up. In 2024, Tara got back on the A.T. with the goal of claiming the FKT—fastest known time. When she reached the finish line in only 40 days, she became the fastest human ever to cover every mile of the A.T. This down-to-earth and hard working woman will push you to keep making forward progress on your aggressive life, and to keep getting up when you fall down.

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0:00.0	A lot of people try when they're doing these things, they try to remove as much uncomfort or discomfort as possible.
0:09.3	They try to mitigate as much of that discomfort or mitigate as much hard times as possible,
0:16.1	when in reality they should be working more on like being okay and sitting in the discomfort and sitting in
0:22.5	those hard times and learning how to train your mind to keep going even when it's difficult
0:28.0	right Dirt.
0:44.8	Who are these guests you keep booking here?
0:47.8	As a runner and wannabe runner, I'm really excited about this one.
0:51.5	Yeah, well, as a man who likes to feel masculine, I'm not excited about this one,
0:57.4	because I already feel like a girly man with this woman here.
1:00.9	It's pretty impressive what she's done.
1:05.1	2,197 miles, 14 states, and three showers.
1:11.9	That's a good woman right there.
1:13.6	That's my favorite part.
1:14.4	Three showers.
1:15.3	You finally found somebody who can live in your world of dirt.
1:20.6	Tara Dower, that's exactly what happened earlier this year, when a 153 p.m. on September 21st, this ultra-marathoner, ultra-badassery woman
1:31.7	reached the southern terminus of the Appalachian Trail. Appalachian, whichever it is. She's run
1:39.3	from Maine to Georgia in only 40 days, 18 hours, and five minutes, beating the previous speed record
1:46.8	by a whopping 13 hours.
1:49.8	So how did she do?
1:51.5	Well, we're going to talk about how she did in her incredible journey and it's pretty
1:55.1	aggressive to do something like that.
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