Andrea Sansone has set a brand new girls’s supported quickest recognized time (FKT) on the Nolan’s 14 route, in a time of 45 hours and 52 minutes, shaving nearly three hours off Sabrina Stanley’s 2020 file of 48:49. Her tracker info and splits might be seen right here.
Sansone started her try — working south to north — within the early hours of the morning on Saturday, September 10, 2022, and completed lower than two days later, on the morning of Monday, September 12. Her run takes the ladies’s supported file properly below the enduring two-day barrier.
The route contains 14 peaks of higher than 14,000 toes (4,267 meters) within the Sawatch Vary in Colorado. There’s free route selection between the peaks, and the problem quantities to round 95 miles with roughly 44,000 toes (13,411 meters) of elevation acquire.
Andrea Sansone coaching to set the ladies’s supported Nolan’s 14 quickest recognized time. All images courtesy of Andrea Sansone.
Sansone — a neonatal intensive care nurse who lives in Colorado — beforehand held the ladies’s total FKT when she accomplished the problem along with her accomplice, Andrew Hamilton, as a self-supported group in a time of 53 hours and 14 minutes in August 2020.
Though the pair nonetheless maintain the blended group FKT, Sansone’s total girls’s file didn’t stand for lengthy again then, with Sabrina Stanley besting it by nearly two hours, with a supported run of 51:15, simply 5 days later. The file was lowered twice extra within the fall of 2020 — by Meghan Hicks in a time of fifty:32, and once more by Stanley, whose 48:49 end time remained the benchmark for nearly two years.
Sansone’s valiant second effort on the Nolan’s 14 didn’t come out of the blue. On July 31 of this yr, she set a brand new total Colorado 14er 24-hour file, summiting 12 Colorado peaks of above 14,000 toes in 22 hours and 27 minutes. The earlier girls’s file had stood at eight peaks in 24 hours.
Two months earlier, on Could 31, she set a file on the Manitou Incline for the best variety of ascents of the favored Colorado path by a girl in 24 hours — totaling over 35,700 toes (10,881 meters) of elevation in 19 repetitions.
Of her newest record-breaking run, Sansone informed iRunFar. “This was by far essentially the most difficult of my profitable FKT makes an attempt this yr. As I’ve skilled extremely exhausting and had a tremendous crew, I knew quitting and letting my group down was by no means going to be an choice.”
Andrea Sansone with accomplice Andrew Hamilton between Mount Yale and Mount Columbia, earlier than Andrew began pacing Andrea for a number of mountains.
Andrea Sansone (in pink) with a few of her crew on the Leadville, Colorado, fish hatchery on Monday, September 12, 2022, after she set a brand new girls’s supported quickest recognized time on the Nolan’s 14 route.
