Denali Foldager jumped from junior champion to become the youngest woman since Palmer’s Dominique Colberg to finish in the top five. Denali’s goal was to finish the 3.5-mile race in less than an hour. She finished in 1 hour, 1 minute and 26 seconds — 1:28 faster than Colberg’s time in 2003.
Flagstad finally wins Mount Marathon after settling for runner-up three times
SEWARD -- Precisely one week before staging yet another stab at seizing victory at Mount Marathon, the race he covets most, three-time runner-up Trond Flagstad joined friends Barney Griffith and Harlow Robinson for one last time trial to gauge his fitness.
Bourgeois extends her streak to five straight victories
Capitalizing on home-course advantage
More than 200 participants, ages 2 to 6 years old, turned out to run the annual Petro Marine Services' Mini Mount Marathon Race in Seward on Friday. The annual crowd-pleaser features a block-long sprint down a city street for kids who are too young to race in the junior events.
Bourgeois extends her streak to five straight victories
SEWARD -- There was a smidgen of uncertainty and a dash of concern for mountain-running queen Cedar Bourgeois going into this year's Mount Marathon.
Capitalizing on home-course advantage
SEWARD -- Coming off a ninth-place finish in last year's junior division race at Mount Marathon, Austin Gillespie of Seward envisioned another top-10 finish Friday.
Flagstad wins men's Mount Marathon
Anchorage's Trond Flagstad dominated the men's Mount Marathon race in Seward on Friday, clocking the third-fastest time in race history.
Young Seward runners sweep juniors races
Cedar Bourgeois wins fifth title
Cedar Bourgeois of Seward rolled to her fifth consecutive women's title at Mount Marathon today, storming up and down the 3,022-foot peak in an unofficial time of 52 minutes, 11 seconds.
Young Seward runners sweep juniors races
SEWARD — Coming off a ninth-place finish in last year’s junior division race at Mount Marathon, Austin Gillespie of Seward envisioned another top-10 finish Friday.
Less than two weeks ago, men's Mount Marathon contender Brent Knight scouted the 3,022-foot peak in Seward and came away unnerved, preaching calculated caution.
Simply gaining entry into the limited field at Mount Marathon became so difficult in the 1990s that race officials in 1995 began auctioning off 10 bibs in the men's race as a way to both expand the field and bolster race coffers.
Can anyone beat Mount Marathon champs?
At 38, with a college ski team to coach, plenty of work remaining on the house he and his wife are building in Potter Valley, and an infant son to enjoy, Trond Flagstad knows his opportunities to win Mount Marathon are dwindling.
WOMEN: Bourgeois looks poised to win fifth straight.
WOMEN: Bourgeois looks poised to win fifth straight.
By now, four-time defending Mount Marathon champion Cedar Bourgeois of Seward has usually revealed her cards for that Fourth of July spectacle by running at least one tune-up race.
Ruling Mount Marathon with iron wills
Not long ago, women's Mount Marathon champion Cedar Bourgeois bumped into someone who basically asked her when she was going to hang up her trail shoes.
Can anyone beat Mount Marathon champs?
Up Mount Marathon, not over it
Age-group records have been smashed regularly on Mount Marathon during the last decade or so, and no one has generated more demolitions than Barney Griffith, who seems as ageless as he is admired.
Recalling her humbling debut at Mount Marathon in 2000, Elizabeth Hooper of Anchorage can nearly laugh herself to tears. Back then it was hard to measure which she was more full of at the race start, bravado or naivete. By race end, misery snuffed both.
Plot the famous Mount Marathon course and check out photos and audio commentary of each major point on the grueling trail.
Mount Marathon champs prevail in Arctic Valley run
Mount Marathon winners Brad Precosky and Cedar Bourgeois won the men's and women's races at Sunday's Arctic Valley Trail Run.
Downhill win on Mount Marathon
SEWARD -- As Brad Precosky neared the summit of Mount Marathon beneath drab, overcast skies Wednesday afternoon, he wondered if his remarkable reign in Alaska's most prestigious footrace had peaked.
Precosky, Bourgeois chock up more Mount Marathon wins
Brad Precosky's remarkable reign in what is likely Alaska's most prestigious and scary foot race is not over.
Fear is good for Mount Marathon first-timers
About 8 Tuesday night, the lights will go down inside Seward High School and video viewing of human carnage from past Mount Marathon races will commence.
Plot and research the Mount Marathon trail with photos and audio commentary from six-time champion, Brad Precosky.
SLIDE SHOW
For four-time Mount Marathon champ Cedar Bourgeois, running in her hometown race is a family affair.
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