Explore Oregon Podcast: Eugene ultra runner Emily Halnon talks about setting PCT record

In the latest episode of the Explore Oregon Podcast, host Zach Urness talks to ultra runner Emily Halnon of Eugene, who back set the speed record for the Oregon segment of the Pacific Crest Trail in 2020.

Halnon ran the Oregon PCT's 460 miles in 7 days, 19 hours and 23 minutes — an average of 57 miles per day — She setting the record for male and female runners.

On the podcast — and in a recently published book — Halnon talks about doing the run to honor her mother, who died of a rare form of bone cancer. She also discusses how your day looks like when you're running 57 miles each day in remote mountain wilderness.

Halnon's recently published a book about her experience is called "To the Gorge: Running, Grief, and Resilience & 460 Miles on the Pacific Crest Trail." She's on a book tour that includes Oregon and will be at Dudley’s Bookshop Cafe in Bend on May 16. See her page, emilyhalnon.com, for a full list of stops on her book tour.

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Zach Urness has been an outdoors reporter in Oregon for 16 years and is host of the Explore Oregon Podcast. To support his work, subscribe to the Statesman Journal. Urness is the author of “Best Hikes with Kids: Oregon” and “Hiking Southern Oregon.” He can be reached at zurness@StatesmanJournal.com or (503) 399-6801. Find him on Twitter at @ZachsORoutdoors.

This article originally appeared on Salem Statesman Journal: Podcast: Eugene ultra runner talks about setting speed record on PCT