Wisconsin’s Birkebeiner Trail is best known for hosting the biggest cross-country skiing race in the country, but last Saturday Anna Dalton prevailed there at a national championship trail running race. Dalton, of Anchorage, finished the USATF Trail Marathon...
Two weeks ago, Klaire Rhodes experienced the extreme disappointment of dropping out of a major running race in France. On Sunday in Montana, the Anchorage ultrarunner accomplished an impressive turnaround by winning The Rut Mountain Runs 50-kilometer event in record...
David Norris slashed 49 seconds off his previous Mount Marathon record by winning the brutal three-mile race up and down Seward’s landmark mountain in 40 minutes, 37 seconds. An Alaska-grown cross-country skier who has called both Fairbanks and Anchorage home and now...
A course record, longevity awards, age group records and historical feats — the 96th running of the storied Mount Marathon had it all. When Anchorage’s Maureen McCrea crossed the finish line at 4th Avenue and Washington Street, history was made, crowning the first...
Klaire Rhodes kept looking over her shoulder as she raced toward the Mount Marathon finish line in first place Thursday afternoon in Seward. She didn’t need to. No pursuer was in sight. The only people near her were the thousands of fans lining the streets, many with...
No need for fireworks tonight. What David Norris did today on Mount Marathon dims any prospect of a more dazzling display this Fourth of July in Alaska. Norris put on a show for the ages Thursday morning in Seward, unleashing an explosion of uphill power that carried...
Palmer’s Coby Marvin was marvelous once again in Seward as he won the Mount Marathon juniors race for the third straight year. Marvin was the first racer at the halfway point, and he was the first to cross the finish line in Thursday’s juniors race, which included 300...
Can the Palmer power trio sweep again? Christy Marvin, Meg Inokuma and Denali Strabel pulled off a 1-2-3 finish in 2023, but a repeat of that performance from the little town in the MatSu Valley seems unlikely given the strong competition and an injury to last year’s...
Max King and David Norris have dominated Mount Marathon since 2018, but King says it’s time for a new king of the mountain. “My hope is that we'll see a few other young studs up there giving Norris a run for his money,” said King, the two-time champion from Bend, Ore....
Tania Boonstra’s recipe for success is to climb as fast as possible and then hold off her pursuers on the downhill. It worked for the Kenai runner last year when she built a 2½-minute lead on the next-best climber (her sister Jayna) and then coasted to victory over...
Anchorage's Novie McCabe earned Alaska Athlete of the Week honors after a dominant performance at the Bird Ridge Hill Climb Sunday. The Olympic Nordic skier who lives in Anchorage and trains with APU won the women's race by four minutes and placed 10th overall. Her...