Fastest Known Time attempts
Chase the record. Let everyone follow.
A load up page for the weeks before, a live page with the record ghost while it runs, and the submission package at the finish. Here is all of it.
THE STORY
Every FKT is a story worth telling.
Doing something really hard makes a story for everyone in it: the runner, the crew, and everyone watching from home. HardTracks tells it as it happens, mile by mile, from the first step to the last.
- The runner: every check in, every photo, every low point and the push through it.
- The crew: every meetup, every diary entry, every long night on the road.
- The followers: cheering from home, calling the finish, there for the last mile.
Built by people who chase FKTs too. Every piece of this came from something we needed on our own attempts.
Before the startGold
- A load up page with a countdown, your route on a topo map and the record to beat
- A to D goal windows, graded at the finish
- Guess the finish: fans call your time, and the closest guess wins a badge
- Calendar reminder: followers add your start, with alerts 2 hours and 1 hour before
- Runner and crew bios, so fans know the whole team
On the trail
- Start and stop buttons on your own link
- Live map with the record ghost and the gap: ahead or behind, always current
- One tap check ins with a note, a photo or a short clip
- Works with no signal: check ins save with the real time and send when you are back in range
- History slider: rewind the whole day, mile by mileGold
- No app to install, for anyone
Your crew
- Every crew member gets their own link: one on Basic, the whole crew on Gold
- Crew location button: one tap puts them on the map, ahead of the runner
- Crew diaries and posts: arrivals, notes, photos and clips, in trail orderGold
- Ask the crew: followers ask, the crew answersGold
Your followers
- One link to share, with no app and no account
- Encouragement wall: notes for the trail, with a heart when you read themGold
- A live feed of check ins, crew posts and photos
Stealth ModeGold
- Stealth start: share a start window, not a time, and start up to 48 hours behind if you like
- Go dark: off the public map at once, and every gap reads “Waiting on the next update”
- Go live: back on the map, and your held check ins come up at once
- Come out a set time behind: any delay up to 48 hours
- Your crew can go stealth too: their posts are held with yours
- Held posts go public only when you choose
- Your crew and safety contact always see where you are
After the finish
- Submission package: timing sheet, crew log, trip report draft and photos, ready to send inGold
- Every check in carries our server’s time stamp, and the CHECK IN log is yours to download
- The page stays up after the finish
- Your grade against your goals, the replay and the crew diariesGold
Packages
- Basic: live tracking you set up yourself, with one crew member
- Gold: the whole crew, Stealth Mode and the full story pages, set up with you
- Start with Basic and upgrade to Gold before your start: what you paid for Basic counts toward it
Choose where to go
See the demo
Example athlete Wren Calloway on the real S.C.A.R. in the Smokies: the real records as ghosts, goal windows, the crew plan, and the live map 9:05 in. The demo is Gold: every feature is on it, Stealth Mode included.
Watch it live The Stealth stretch The load up pageOuachita Trail
John Hardin and David Compton 223 mi · December 10, 2026 Record to beat 70:40:00Start my FKT
Pick a package, then set up your page: route, record, goals and crew.
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