Hunted / Season 1, Episode 4
Silent Steps
APEX Season 1, Episode 4: "Silent Steps" --- [CHAPTER 1: THE RUNNER] Megan Torres had run 47,000 miles in her lifetime. She'd calculated it once, during a particularly boring recovery week—every training run, every race, every casual jog since she'd started running at fourteen. Forty-seven thousand miles. Almost twice around the Earth. More than most people walked in their entire lives. In all those miles, on trails spanning four continents, she had never felt afraid. Until now. The feeling started at mile six of her Thursday training run on the Devil's Backbone trail outside Loveland, Colorado. Nothing obvious—no sound, no movement, no visible threat. Just a sudden, primal awareness that something was wrong. She slowed her pace, scanning the rocky terrain around her. The trail cut through classic Colorado foothill country: ponderosa pines and Douglas fir, granite outcroppings and scrub oak, the kind of landscape that looked beautiful on postcards and murderous in person. Nothing moved. The afternoon sun cast long shadows through the trees. A hawk circled lazily overhead. Everything looked normal. But it didn't feel normal. Megan had learned to trust her instincts. In ultramarathons, that sixth sense—the one that told you when to push and when to back off, when your body was lying to you and when it was telling the truth—could be the difference between...