It was a scramble to get started. The wind had blown in a day earlier than expected and endurance racer Hannah Otto and her team were faced with a conundrum: attempt the Fastest Known Time (FKT) of Hawaii’s tallest mountain today or delay.
Rewind a few months, and Mauna Kea was niggling at Otto’s brain. She’d done FKTs before—100 miles on Utah’s White Rim, 137-mile Kokopelli Trail, the fastest time on the Whole Enchilada—but the Hawaiian mountain was a stop she wanted to scale ever since she competed in the World Championships there as a young triathlete.
