Hi, I ran into this situation once before and to make it worse, the location where I wanted to put the FastTrack resulted in both ends inches away from a stud. I took a 2X6, planed it to full 1" thick, cut it to a length of about 1" beyond each of the nearest+outside studs, and bolted it to studs with lag bolts. Then I fastened the Fast Track in to the planed 2X6 - I was able to drill into the interior studs to screw the track into the board+studs on the 'inside' studs and screwed the outside track screws into the 2X6. Helped me solve that problem.