# @startribune on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DLaKmSbOocn
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/31888975-startribune-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-06-27T15:12:54.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Star Tribune (@StarTribune) — https://gondola.cc/StarTribune

## Caption

At an age when many people look to get off their feet, Michael Koppy thinks about where he’ll use his next.

And that means running.

At 69, he set the speed record — a milestone known as the “fastest known time,” or FKT — for completing the 310-mile Superior Hiking Trail along Minnesota’s North Shore. His time of 5 days, 3 hours and 44 minutes eclipsed the previous mark by more than a day — set by a runner who could be his grandson.

The Hermantown man’s footprints are all over the U.S. trail running and ultramarathon scenes.

Now 74, Koppy shows few signs of slowing. He still aims big after 25 years of ultramarathons.

Koppy is set to compete Saturday in the prestigious Western States 100-Mile Endurance Run in the Sierra Nevada of California.

Read more at the link in our bio. Reporting by Bob Timmons. Photo by Erica Dischino/The Minnesota Star Tribune.

#minnesota #marathon #ultramarathon #ultramarathoner #marathoner

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