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The juniors' race starts at 9am, while the start times for the men's and women's races alternate each year. [2] The halfway point is a stone marker [1] on Mount Marathon, [3] 2,974 feet (906 m) above sea level, [4] and a mile and a half from the finish line. The total race course distance is about 3.1 miles (5 kilometers).
Mount Marathon, or officially Marathon Mountain, is a 4,826-foot (1,471 m) mountain summit directly west of Seward in the Kenai Mountains in the U.S. state of Alaska.The peak is situated in Chugach National Forest, rising above Resurrection Bay, 2.35 mi (4 km) south of Mount Benson, and 2 mi (3 km) north of Bear Mountain.
The race is 3 miles of suffering, contested almost entirely on the steep, punishing mountain peak in the heart of Seward. An extreme sport before anyone ever uttered the phase "extreme sport," ...
The date is still commemorated in the state as Alaska Flag Day. On July 4, 1928, another Chignik boy, Ephriam Kalmakoff, at 14 years old won Seward's Mount Marathon Race, a mountain foot race above Seward that stood until 1957. He remains the youngest race champion.
Ostrander frequently competes in the Mount Marathon Race in Seward, Alaska, which she began running in grade school. She won the half-distance, junior version of the race six consecutive times from 2009 to 2014, beating not only the girls but the boys in her final year of the Junior race. [5]
Mount Marathon Race; S. St. Peter's Episcopal Church (Seward, Alaska) Seward Silver Salmon Derby This page was last edited on 10 October 2023, at 21:35 (UTC). ...
Aerial view of Seward, Alaska, in the 1990s, looking north. The mouth of the Resurrection River and the base of Mount Marathon are visible. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 21.5 square miles (56 km 2), of which 14.4 square miles (37 km 2) is land and 7.1 square miles (18 km 2) (32.93%) is water.
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