Doing Well

Jennifer Davis is on pace to hit Springer Mountain Georgia on Saturday.

If she makes it by Saturday, she’ll have completed the trail in 58 days, averaging almost 37 miles a day. Her initial goal was to complete the trail in 60 to 80 days.

Lets hope she stays well for the next few days. It seems she is getting tired of trail food and I do not blame her.

Missing fresh produce, she’s ecstatic when she gets her salad.

“Vegetables, mmmm,” she says.

On the trail, Davis must take in food constantly to replace the roughly 4,000 calories a day she burns. She snacks on Clif bars, trail mix and other snacks every three miles. Brew tries to bring her a variety of foods, but Davis gets tired of eating and chewing.

“Sometimes, I hate eating,” she says. “But you have to keep putting food in your mouth.”

She told Brew at one point, “It’s not food anymore, it’s just fuel.” One trail snack won’t go home with her. “I’m going to take a long break from peanut butter,” she says.

I have not eaten much peanut butter since my first thru-hike. Good luck! Go Jen Go!