Marko Cheseto keeps lowering his marathon record for amputees. The former University of Alaska Anchorage standout ran Sunday’s New York City Marathon in 2 hours, 35 minutes and 55 seconds to place 72nd overall among almost 25,000 runners and 57th for men. Cheseto, 38,...
Jason Parks is the fastest Alaskan hardly anyone has heard of. Despite running a marathon in 2 hours, 24 minutes, Parks has remained relatively anonymous for various reasons: he’s only been in Alaska two years; he lives off-the-beaten path in Kenai; the pandemic has...
Forty-year-old Brandon Newbould is now considered a Masters runner, but that doesn’t mean he’s slowing down. At the Cranmore Mountain Race in North Conway, N.H., on Oct. 16, Newbould passed 29-year-old Stephen Kerr of Massachusetts on a downhill late in the...
Natalie Bickers had been soldiering along the Moab 240 Endurance Run course for more than 4½ days — through wind, rain, snow, mud and physical and mental exhaustion — when the prospect of being disqualified in the final hour became very real. As she reached a paved...
Anchorage runner Jerry Ross was named Alaska Athlete of the Week after placing in the top 100 and winning his age group at the Boston Marathon. Ross's time of 2:31:53 was tops in the 45-49-year-old age group. The 46-year-old Dimond High grad who now teaches and...
Fairbanks native Tony Tomsich rolled through midway point of the Munich Marathon on his way to finishing in sixth place, a great showing for an urban international race. He was just getting warmed up. Tomsich followed up a first half in 1 hour, 10 minutes and 51...
Alaskans competing at the Boston Marathon have always had to train through the toughest winter months in advance of the April event. However, for the first time in its 125-year history, the granddaddy of marathoning was moved to October due to the coronavirus — and...
Megan Youngren of Soldotna wasn’t planning to run the 16th Kenai River Marathon, considering it was scheduled just eight days after a hard effort at the Equinox Marathon. But after recovering quickly from the Equinox, Youngren jumped in and shattered the Kenai River...
Anchorage runner Anna Dalton was named Alaska Athlete of the Week after setting a new Equinox Marathon women’s record. Dalton’s time of 3:07:22 knocked nearly eight minutes off Christy Marvin’s mark of 3:15:06, set in 2018. She was one of four women to run faster than...
Anna Dalton is the new Equinox Marathon women's record holder. On a postcard-perfect fall Saturday in Fairbanks, the Anchorage runner was one of four women to run faster than the previous women's record in one of Alaska's oldest and most storied footraces. Dalton's...
Western Washington University senior Kaleb Korta of Galena earned a runner-up finish after winning a sprint finish at the Central Washington University Cross Country Invitational in Lacey, Washington. Korta clocked a 6-K time of 19:40.0 to beat Eastern Oregon's Travis...