The 97th running of the Mount Marathon race is set for Friday in Seward. The annual Fourth of July race, touted as the “toughest 5K on the planet,” runs up the nearly 3,000 feet of Mount Marathon and ...

Anchorage’s Klaire Rhodes was late to the game of competitive sports, having not participated in them as a youth outside of dabbling in swimming and dance at South Anchorage High School. However, ...

Seward’s hometown Mount Marathon Race holds legendary status among professional and novice runners alike as the world’s toughest 5K. Each year, more than 1,000 runners enter a lottery for a chance to ...

Jul. 4—SEWARD — In the past few years, Klaire Rhodes has established herself as a world-class trail runner. The USATF Trail Marathon champ in 2022, Rhodes has excelled at distance races 50K and even ...

The Mount Marathon Race on July 4 in Seward swells the number of people in the town of 2,800 to at least a few times that size. The largest crowds to watch just short of 1,000 race about 5 kilometers ...

Winning the Mount Marathon Race in 2016 guaranteed David Norris an automatic bid to compete in Seward, Alaska’s Fourth of July race for life. Since then, he has competed four more times and won them ...

With Seward stuffed with people for 97th running of the Mount Marathon Race on Friday, Anchorage’s Klaire Rhodes, 27, got a little unexpected alone time. Rhodes defended her title in the race up and ...

The junior boys winner was no surprise, while the junior girls winner was a complete surprise, Friday at the Mount Marathon Race in Seward. After finishing second to Palmer’s Coby Marvin the past two ...