Runners take off at the starting line of the Mount Marathon race in Seward, July 4, 2023. (Dev Hardikar/Alaska Public Media) More than a thousand runners are set to scramble up and back down Seward's ...

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 ...

David Norris won his fifth Mount Marathon on Thursday, shattering his own race record, while Anchorage’s Klaire Rhodes won the women’s race for the first time. Nearly 900 runners participated in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One streak lived while another streak ended during a brilliantly sunny men’s race at the 97th running of the Mount Marathon Race in Seward. On a day when David Norris, a 34-year-old who grew up in ...

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 ...

The competitors at Mount Marathon know it all to well, particularly Max King of Bend, Oregon. King has won two titles, but finished second to Norris for the third time Friday with his time of 44:23.