Slowest Known Time

There is a concept in some sports called "Fastest Known Time" where an athlete takes a known route and completes the entirety of it in the fastest time recorded publically. Often, as in the case of the PCT, this reuqires support teams, planning, extensive resources, and money. In some cases it is simply a human being doing something faster through sheer physcical ability, but often these days it has more to do with outside support and privilige to take something and optimize it beyond its normal constraints.

The opposite of this would also require extensive privilege and resources, but toward another extreme. The "Slowest Known Time," which my father coined in 2021, would be to take a known route with an average/fastest known time, and then try to do it as slowly as possible. This could mean walking a trail extremeley slowly for example, and camping out more often and taking as much time as you can to complete it.

I have not set any official SKTimes yet, but someday I would like to take some beautiful routes, and take my sweet time on it, writing all the way.