Background
Published in April of 2018, The Pursuit of Endurance is a book about the pursuit of the Fastest Known Time (FKT) of various long distance hikes such as the Appalachian Trail. She also tells the story of several other record holders.
My Thoughts
This was a hard book to get through. I was looking for something to keep my motivation up and this failed miserably. While Jennifer Pharr Davis (or JPD as she is known in trendy hiker circles) did some pretty impressive feats of endurance, her motivation, reason, impetus, or whatever was so muddled that it seemed like she just “Forest Gump’d” her way through. The book was laced with millennial-era BS judgements about religion, gender, lack of resiliency and so on. At the end of it all, I wasn’t impressed.
Recommendation
Nothing of value here. Skip it.