— Week T-199 · 199 weeks to Katahdin
Preparing, publicly, for the 2030 Appalachian Trail.
Southbound. 2,197 miles. Four years of training, honestly documented — including the weeks when the plan doesn’t survive contact with the ground.
Field update — September 19, 2026.
A knee injury on the Eagle Rock Loop cut two training weeks short. The plan has been rebuilt around a new Phase 0: Recovery & Rebaseline — six weeks of walking-only progression, ankle stability work, and a permanent biomechanics stream added to every phase that follows.
Trail start
Aug 2030
Direction
SOBO
Distance
2,197 mi
Current phase
Phase 0
Field notes
The training journal.
Every week, in writing. What worked. What didn’t. What the plan needs to change.
Sept 19, 2026
Forward still counts when you don’t feel like moving
Two weeks after the knee injury, the physical recovery is easier than the mental one. Starting again anyway.
Sept 7, 2026
A hard lesson from a bad decision
A fully loaded pack on real trail terrain, weeks before the plan called for either. Steps build stamina; they do not automatically prepare a bad leg for rocks and roots.
Earlier in T-207
The list of impossible things just got shorter
10.49 sustained miles on a body that wasn’t expected to walk that far again. The plan working, before it stopped working.
You don’t always have to feel like moving forward. You just have to move forward.
Walk with me
You don’t have to be walking the trail to be walking with me.
Set your own daily goal. Track your progress. Some walkers are training. Some are recovering. Some just need a reason to keep moving. Forward still counts, whatever direction you started from.
5
Walkers so far, across two states — Texas and Arizona.
199
Weeks between now and Katahdin. Long enough for anyone to build a walking habit.