The Hawkeye State has plenty of opportunity for women to claim FKTs. With 18 posted routes and variations, this state has 15 routes with no claimed women’s times – 83.3% of the routes. In 2022, two of the six FKTs were women’s, or 33.3%. The other four were by men (66.7%).
If you want to set an FKT on a route that does not have a posted women’s FKT, you should search for known times on Strava and Google.
| Route Name | Distance in miles | Elevation Gain | Posted Women's FKT? | Best Women's Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geode Lake Trail: One Lap | 7.23 | 605 | No | |
| Clive Greenbelt | 7.8 | 264 | No | |
| Pleasant Creek Loop: One Lap | 8.6 | 690 | No | |
| Mahaska Community Recreation Trail | 12.8 | 416 | Yes | 1h 58m 23s |
| Tour de Parks | 19.0 | 525 | No | |
| T-Bone Trail | 19.5 | 134 | No | |
| High Trestle Trail | 24.8 | 426 | No | |
| Neal Smith Trail | 25.2 | 803 | No | |
| Heritage Trail | 29.4 | 300 | No | |
| Three Rivers Trail | 33.2 | 300 | No | |
| Wabash Trace Nature Trail: One Way | 63.3 | 1244 | Yes | 8h 44m 43s |
| Cedar Valley Nature Trail | 68.7 | 1640 | No | |
| Raccoon River Valley Round | 72.0 | 1128 | No | |
| Geode Lake Trail: Fourteen Laps | 101.2 | 8470 | No | |
| Pleasant Creek Loop: 12 Laps | 1519.2 | 29856 | No | |
| Wabash Trace Nature Trail: Out & Back | 126.6 | 2488 | Yes | 20h 6m 2s |
| Run Across Iowa | 276.6 | 11250 | No | |
| Mormon Pioneer Trail | 1297.0 | 28000 | No |