FKT Challenges
Claim This Podcastby svein tuft
Podcast Overview
<p><strong>FKT Challenges</strong></p><p>There’s something about going out the door with a simple idea: pick a route, push yourself, and see what you’re capable of.</p><p>FKT Challenges is built around that.</p><p>This isn’t about big events, travel budgets, or perfectly structured race calendars. It’s for people with jobs, families, responsibilities—people who still feel that pull to go hard, to test themselves, and to see what’s possible on a given day.</p><p>The idea is simple.</p><p>Find a route in your local area. It could be a 30 km loop, a 100 km gravel ride, a mountain pass, or something you’ve always looked at and thought, “I wonder how fast I could do that.”</p><p>Create it. Share it. Ride it.</p><p>Post your route in the FKT Challenges Strava club. Share it with the community. Put a time down. That becomes the mark.</p><p>From there, it’s open.</p><p>Someone else can take a shot at it. Maybe they beat it, maybe they don’t. Maybe you go back and try again. That’s the whole point.</p><p>It’s not about who’s the fastest in the world. It’s about creating your own challenges, in your own backyard, and showing up for them.</p><p>What matters is the effort.</p><p>This is about making endurance accessible again. No barriers to entry. No need to travel across the world. No need to wait for a start line. You choose the day. You choose the route. You go.</p><p>And you share it.</p><p>Because the real power in this is the community that builds around it. Cheering each other on. Following along. Watching someone take on something that’s big for them—whether that’s their first 100 km ride or an all-day effort deep into the mountains.</p><p>There’s no elitism here.</p><p>Some of the stories you’ll hear are from riders at the very top level, chasing big lines and big efforts. Others are from people just getting started, stepping into something new, and finding out what they’re capable of.</p><p>Both matter equally.</p><p>This podcast is about those stories.</p><p>It’s about the quiet local loop that turned into something bigger than expected. It’s about the long days that don’t go to plan. It’s about the wins, the failures, the lessons, and the moments that stick with you long after the ride is over.</p><p>From the biggest routes in the world to the small ones close to home—there’s value in all of it.</p><p>Because at the end of the day, this isn’t really about time.</p><p>It’s about showing up, doing something hard, and sharing that experience with others.</p><p>That’s FKT Challenges.</p>
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July 20, 2026
Dirty Dan Pre Pan Am FKT
<p>Svein interviews Dirty Dan (Daniel Connell) from Deadhorse, Alaska — the northernmost point of the Pan-American Highway — the night before he attempts to break the Guinness World Record for fastest cycling of the full Pan-American route to Ushuaia, Argentina (~14,000 miles).</p><p>Since his Pacific Coast FKT, Dan spent two months balancing training with family time rather than going full training mode. He felt good on back-to-back big days a month out and decided to maintain fitness rather than build, believing a "full heart" matters as much as peak form for a 70+ day effort.</p><p>The route goes south through Alaska and Canada on the Alcan Highway to Calgary, then east of the Rockies through the US to Texas, crossing into Mexico near the Gulf. Dan takes an unconventional Mexican route through a statistically more dangerous state to avoid deadly truck traffic on the main corridor. Through Central America he'll eat street food and deal with rain. He flies the Darien Gap (Panama to Cartagena) per Guinness rules. South America brings coastal Peru with brutal crosswinds, then a crossing into Chile via the Jama Pass — 100 miles above 5,000 meters (16,400 ft) — before a long flat Argentina stretch to the finish.</p><p>The Guinness record is 84 days (crewed). His real target is Bond's solo 76-day benchmark, after two supportive phone calls where Bond shared route notes. At 200 miles/day Dan would finish in ~67 days — which he admitted out loud "scares the shit out of me." Bond averaged 184.</p><p>He shipped four supply boxes along the route (Fairbanks, Texas, Panama, Lima) with tires, drivetrain parts, and a fresh kit at halfway. The bike ended up 10 lbs heavier than planned with a spare tire, bigger toolkit, extra layers, and a med kit.</p><p>The night before departure he met a motorcyclist at the only café in Deadhorse who had just finished the exact reverse journey from Ushuaia. Dan caught him at his final dismount — a full-circle moment that set the tone perfectly.</p><p>He departs at 6 AM with his filmmaker friend and his mom seeing him off, tracking live every hour.</p>
July 14, 2026
Rob Britton takes on 3 famous FKT's in the UK in 1 week
<p><strong>Rob Britton: Three FKTs in One Week Across the UK</strong></p><p>What does it look like to attempt three Fastest Known Times across an entire country in a single week?</p><p>In this episode, host Svein sits down with pro cyclist and ultra-endurance athlete Rob Britton, fresh off one of the most ambitious efforts we've heard on this podcast. Rob's plan: take on three iconic UK gravel routes — King Alfred's Way in southern England, the Pennine Bridleway in northern England, and the Badger Divide from Glasgow to Inverness in Scotland — all within seven days. Each route sits around 280–300 kilometers with 5,000 to 6,500 meters of climbing, back-to-back, with travel and bike rebuilds wedged in between.</p><p>The UK terrain surprises people. It's not big alpine passes — it's relentless short punishing climbs, overgrown grass tracks, and on the Pennine Bridleway, hundreds of gates. Some easy, some heavy farm machinery you wrestle open one at a time. Multiply that by the length of an entire route and it will crack you.</p><p>And crack it did. King Alfred's Way: going well, nine minutes up on the FKT with 80 k to go, until a rear tire hit a rock. Seven plugs later, still losing air, 14 hours of full gas effort with nothing to show. The Pennine Bridleway escalated into a survival situation — soaked to the bone on an exposed ridgeline, eight degrees, 60 km/h winds, a dead phone, no InReach, and the gates making it impossible to sustain enough pace to generate body heat. Rob describes crouching behind a stone wall eating M&Ms in the dark just to think clearly, and racing a descent in near-dark hoping his filmmaker was still waiting at the bottom.</p><p>Two DNFs. One route left. No confidence.</p><p>That's where the conversation gets genuinely interesting — the psychology of walking to the start line of something this hard when everything has gone wrong. Rob talks about his prep approach, his pacing philosophy, and what he actually saves for the end of these efforts: not physical energy, but mental fight.</p><p>The Badger Divide delivers the resolution this story needs. Tune in to hear how it goes.</p>
May 13, 2026
Dirty Dan takes the Pacific Coast FKT!
<p><strong>FKT Smashed: Dirty Dan's Pacific Coast Record</strong></p><p>Dirty Dan is back to break down his record-setting Pacific Coast FKT. Two conversations in now — the pre-ride chat before he rolled out, and this one, recorded less than two days after he finished — and if anything, this episode is even better than the first.</p><p>Dan rode from the US-Canada border to the Mexico border in <strong>6 days, 15 hours, and 53 minutes</strong>, demolishing the previous record of 9 days and 13 hours across a 2,650 km route. His daily average was roughly 400 km. His total stop time across the entire effort — sleep, food, motels, gas stations, all of it — was just one day and eight hours.</p><p><strong>How It Unfolded</strong></p><p>The start was anything but smooth. A last-minute wind forecast check revealed a southerly headwind locking in along Oregon right when he'd be there. He made the call the same afternoon to start a day early, scrambled to Bellingham with his brother, barely slept, and rolled away from the border at 5:30 AM into rain and a puncture within the first 30 kilometres.</p><p>Day one ended at midnight after 280 miles. He set up his bivy — and discovered his brand new sleeping pad had a slow leak. Night one was on the ground, broken sleep, 40-degree temperatures.</p><p>Oregon delivered the headwind he'd feared. Two days of grinding into a relentless southerly wind along exposed coastal sections, speed down, morale tested. His response: stop checking the average speed, keep pedaling, and fixate on the California border. One mile per hour is better than zero. When he finally crossed into California, the weather eased and largely stayed good to the finish.</p><p>By day five, he was flying. The body had adapted, the rhythm was locked in, and he rode the final stretch feeling genuinely great — which is exactly what you want after banking enough rest and food in the early days to still have something left.</p><p><strong>The Spirit of the Thing</strong></p><p>What made this ride worth following wasn't just the pace. Dan stayed open the entire way — stopping for photos with diner staff, chatting with strangers, engaging with everyone who was curious about what he was doing. Once he hit California, supporters started showing up roadside in groups, sometimes ten or more, with signs and cheering. He says it felt like it was happening almost every hour toward the end.</p><p>That energy is real. And it's a choice. There's a version of this effort where you put your head down and shut the world out. Dan chose the other version, and it clearly worked.</p><p><strong>Practical Notes</strong></p><p>Sleep was a constant negotiation between bivy and motels — faster vs. better quality. His advice: carry the full kit regardless. The freedom to sleep anywhere is worth the weight.</p><p>Fueling was his biggest area for improvement. The body takes a few days to fully adapt to the caloric demand, and he wasn't eating consistently enough early on. Go-tos: sour gummy worms and chocolate milk at every 7-Eleven stop, sit-down diner meals when timing allowed. He brushed his teeth up to three times a day, sometimes while riding. Small stuff, but it keeps you feeling human.</p><p>The bike was an unreleased Trek endurance road bike, 35mm tires, SRAM Force AXS, full Tailfin bag setup. Everything held up across 2,650 km. </p><p><strong>What's Next</strong></p><p>Dan flies to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska on <strong>July 17th</strong> to attempt the FKT from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego — roughly 11 times the distance of this ride. The current record is <strong>75 days</strong>. He's already thinking about what it'll feel like to finally hit his groove two weeks in and have months of riding still ahead.</p><p>We'll be following along.</p><p>Connect: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:tuftcamps@gmail.com">tuftcamps@gmail.com</a> | Instagram & Strava: FKT Challenges</p>
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- What is FKT Challenges?
<p><strong>FKT Challenges</strong></p><p>There’s something about going out the door with a simple idea: pick a route, push yourself, and see what you’re capable of.</p><p>FKT Challenges is built around that.</p><p>This isn’t about big events, travel budgets, or perfectly structured race calendars. It’s for people with jobs, families, responsibilities—people who still feel that pull to go hard, to test themselves, and to see what’s possible on a given day.</p><p>The idea is simple.</p><p>Find a route in your local area. It could be a 30 km loop, a 100 km gravel ride, a mountain pass, or something you’ve always looked at and thought, “I wonder how fast I could do that.”</p><p>Create it. Share it. Ride it.</p><p>Post your route in the FKT Challenges Strava club. Share it with the community. Put a time down. That becomes the mark.</p><p>From there, it’s open.</p><p>Someone else can take a shot at it. Maybe they beat it, maybe they don’t. Maybe you go back and try again. That’s the whole point.</p><p>It’s not about who’s the fastest in the world. It’s about creating your own challenges, in your own backyard, and showing up for them.</p><p>What matters is the effort.</p><p>This is about making endurance accessible again. No barriers to entry. No need to travel across the world. No need to wait for a start line. You choose the day. You choose the route. You go.</p><p>And you share it.</p><p>Because the real power in this is the community that builds around it. Cheering each other on. Following along. Watching someone take on something that’s big for them—whether that’s their first 100 km ride or an all-day effort deep into the mountains.</p><p>There’s no elitism here.</p><p>Some of the stories you’ll hear are from riders at the very top level, chasing big lines and big efforts. Others are from people just getting started, stepping into something new, and finding out what they’re capable of.</p><p>Both matter equally.</p><p>This podcast is about those stories.</p><p>It’s about the quiet local loop that turned into something bigger than expected. It’s about the long days that don’t go to plan. It’s about the wins, the failures, the lessons, and the moments that stick with you long after the ride is over.</p><p>From the biggest routes in the world to the small ones close to home—there’s value in all of it.</p><p>Because at the end of the day, this isn’t really about time.</p><p>It’s about showing up, doing something hard, and sharing that experience with others.</p><p>That’s FKT Challenges.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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