Six days after a vertical-heavy mountain race at altitude she called the hardest race of her career, Alaska’s Allie Ostrander on Friday delivered a much better result in another long grinder at altitude. Ostander, 26, who grew up in Soldotna and lives in Seattle,...
Coming from her home base at sea level in Seattle to the extreme altitude of Colorado undoubtedly taxed Allie Ostrander’s aerobic system on Saturday, when the Alaska pro runner finished 20th among women at the punishing Pikes Peak Ascent. The 13.3-mile trail race...
In her first race since a four-month competition ban for using a prohibited medication, Alaska’s Allie Ostrander last weekend set a women’s course record to win the low-key Three Corner Rock 50K along the Pacific Crest Trail in Washington state that marked the longest...
In the days leading up to the 35th Matanuska Peak Challenge, Meg Inokuma and Scott Patterson seriously questioned whether to do the toughest mountain running race in Alaska. Patterson, a two-time Olympic Nordic skier, was plagued for months by a high ankle sprain that...
Sixteen-year-old Coby Marvin of Palmer continued his impressive campaign by winning two medals at the Youth Skyrunning World Championships in L’Aquila, Italy. Marvin, the two-time Mount Marathon Race junior champion, earned the only medals for the United States in the...
Ben Marvin’s first victory at the 38th Crow Pass Crossing didn’t come easy: he faced a significant early deficit, spooked a grizzly cub, took a fall towards the end and was reduced to hand-scooping water out of creeks after losing his water bottle on stiflingly hot...
It was only fitting that Annie Connelly’s trip to Ireland included a pair of podium finishes. The 24-year-old from Anchorage took the win at the Reeks Vertical race and collected a runner-up finish at the Reeks Skyline race the following day. Connelly’s Irish roots...
David Norris’ Mount Marathon resume requires just one line: Legend. Four races, four wins. King David on Tuesday throttled the men’s field in the 95th edition of the race up and down the 3,022-foot slab of pain in Seward to add to his victories in 2021, 2018 and 2016....
Christy Marvin is tougher than trigonometry and as reliable as sunrise. Those qualities, along with surpassing talent, delivered her third Mount Marathon women’s title on a rainy, windswept Tuesday in Seward. In the 95th running of the Super Bowl of Alaska mountain...
Coby Marvin’s dream of breaking Bill Spencer’s 50-year-old junior boys record on Mount Marathon did not become reality Tuesday morning in Seward – rain and wind conspired for difficult conditions – but he seized a sweet consolation prize: Repeat victory. Marvin, 16,...
After making her debut for Team USA, Klaire Rhodes can now add ‘world bronze medalist’ to her resume. The 24-year-old from Anchorage placed 21st in the short trail event, crossing the line as the fourth American at the World Mountain and Trail Running Championships in...