Sixteen-year-old Coby Marvin is half the age of Lars Arneson. And Marvin, understandably, is not nearly as accomplished as Arneson, a three-time overall winner of the Alaska Mountain Runners Grand Prix who has been racking up wins on trails and mountains for years. At...
Santiago Gomez-Prosser, Tristian Merchant and Camron Herron concluded their collegiate track and field seasons at the two NCAA regional meets, while Vanessa Aniteye continued her season overseas in Belgium. In his first appearance at the NCAA West Regional in...
Buoyed by the security of a new sponsor, injury-free training and closing speed indicative of strength and fitness, Ketchikan’s Issac Updike on Friday night delivered his fastest steeplechase performance in two years. Updike, 31, finished second at the LA Grand Prix,...
From Alaska to Austria, Klaire Rhodes is unstoppable. The 24-year-old from Anchorage was named to the USATF team roster for the World Mountain and Trail Running Championships, hosted next month in Innsbruck, Austria. Rhodes first put herself in the mix at the...
Palmer’s Denali Strabel and Wasilla’s Josh Taylor took to the trails of Mount Sunapee in a pair of loaded races, while Anchorage’s Lars Arneson and Klaire Rhodes placed third at the Breakneck Point Marathon, and Kenai’s Jason Parks took 11th at the Eugene Marathon....
Conditions were awful when Isaac Updike stepped to the line Friday night to defend his steeplechase title at the storied Penn Relays in Philadelphia. The temperature was 49 degrees. Rain pelted the track. Winds lashed to 15 mph. Humidity ruled. Of course, it’s not...
Alaskans showed up at Lake Sonoma, the Boston Marathon, and the Skyrunning North & Central American Championships primed to race against premier competition. The Lake Sonoma half marathon was led start-to-finish by former Anchorage resident, Klaire Rhodes. The...
Allie Ostrander, who made her mark principally as a steeplechaser in her first go-round as a pro, has said she intends to diversify her racing resume – adding road and trail/mountain racing to her usual track work – in her return to elite racing. Sunday, she proved a...
As a display of his versatility, Lars Arneson has won obstacle races, mountain running races, trail running races and winter triathlons among other events. On March 26, he added a ski win to his resume, prevailing at the Arctic Valley Rally ski mountaineering race....
Men and women succeeding on the national level and beyond are the finalists for the 2023 Pride of Alaska awards. NCAA champion swimmer Lydia Jacoby of Seward, NCAA Division II volleyball player of the year Eve Stephens of Palmer and All-America basketball player...
Isaac Updike approached Thursday’s steeplechase at the Raleigh Relays in North Carolina as a “soft opener’’ to his 2023 outdoor season. There was nothing soft about his performance. The 31-year-old pro from Ketchikan seized the lead from the gun, paced his heat...