Mount Marathon coverage

Search under way for Mount Marathon runner

More than 20 searchers and an Alaska Air National Guard helicopter spent much of Thursday hunting for a 66-year-old man who vanished while participating in the grueling Mount Marathon race in Seward.

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MOUNT MARATHON COVERAGE

Holly Brooks runs down elusive title

Holly Brooks, 30, an Olympic nordic skier from Anchorage and a three-time runner-up on Mount Marathon, owned the women’s race from the outset Wednesday and put to rest questions about whether she would ever win.
MOUNT MARATHON COVERAGE

Junior champs defend their crowns

SEWARD — With recent rain and mist turning the dirt trail up Mount Marathon into what one racer called “slippery snot,’’ Allie Ostrander of Soldotna literally got a leg up on the competition Wednesday on the way to her fourth consecutive junior girls victory.
MOUNT MARATHON COVERAGE

Cyclist changes gears for Mount Marathon

Sheryl Loan of Anchorage has long been a cycling powerhouse. But last year while watching her daughter run in Mount Marathon, the 53-year-old realized if she wanted to run it, she better get after it.
MOUNT MARATHON RACE

After decade of contention Strabel finally wins

When perennial contender Eric Strabel crossed the finish line Monday to win his first Mount Marathon title in 12 attempts, he let loose the scream of a madman.
MOUNT MARATHON RACE

Olympic teammates duel on Mount Marathon

Looking gritty in pink, Kikkan Randall and Holly Brooks staged one of the most stirring duels in Mount Marathon history Monday, running neck-and-neck almost the entire way in the 84th edition of Alaska's most famous footrace.
MOUNT MARATHON RACE

Ostrander 3-peats in junior girls race; boys winner fastest in years

Based on what Soldotna's Allie Ostrander has done in her last four Mount Marathons, it's scary to think what she might do in her three remaining years in the junior division.
MOUNT MARATHON RACE

Strabel wins men's Mount Marathon race

Anchorage runner Eric Strabel, 29, won the men's Mount Marathon race today with a time of 44 minutes and 40 seconds. This is Strabel's 12th Mount Marathon attempt. He previously finished second four times. Kikkan Randall won the women's race.
MOUNT MARATHON RACE

Ostrander, Knotek claim junior Mount Marathon victories

Allie Ostrander of Soldotna crushed her own record today in the girls junior Mount Marathon. Miles Knotek of Moose Pass, meantime, ran what is believed to be the second-fastest overall time in the junior race history.
MOUNT MARATHON RACE

Mother will race Mount Marathon in memory of son

Joy Eastman, mother of eight, including four boys who all ran Mount Marathon as kids, will make her Mount Marathon debut today at age 66. While others will honor Independence Day by waving American flags and wearing various combinations of red, white and blue, Eastman will honor her son by running...
MOUNT MARATHON RACE

Cedar OK with walking away while still on Mount Marathon top

The 350 women racing Mount Marathon today will experience something new to almost all of them. They will pass seven-time and reigning champion Cedar Bourgeois on their way up the 3,022-foot mountain in Seward.