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As much of the trail running world was focused on the Hardrock Hundred Mile Endurance Run last weekend in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado, David Hedges quietly and stunningly put his name in the record books with a prodigious effort in Sawatch Range a few hundred miles to the northwest. The 25-year-old somewhat nomadic trail runner who originally hails from Chicago lowered the supported Fastest Known Time on the daunting Nolan's 14 route on the evening of July 15. Nolan's 14 involves connecting a line of 14 Colorado peaks that tower over 14,000 feet in a single push in 60 hours or less.
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