Alaska Sports Hall of Fame

Eight Anchorage runners sped to stellar performances on Feb. 4 at the Surf City Half Marathon in Huntington Beach, California.

Chad Trammell, who has made a name for himself in obstacle course racing, led the way by placing 7^th in 1 hour, 12 minutes and 47 seconds, a pace of 5:34 per mile. He was followed by Ryan Cox (8^th  in 1:13:39), 41-year-old Jerome Ross (9^th in 1:14:27), Corbyn Jahn (11^th in 1:14:53) and Ryan Beckett (15^th in 1:15:54).

For the women, former Anchorage runner Anna Dalton, who now lives in Bozeman, Montana, showed she’s regaining form after recent injuries by taking 6^th  in 1:25:06.

Taylor Ostrander was 7^th in 1:25:38 and Abby Jahn matched her brother’s result with 11^th in 1:27:39.

All five aforementioned men, along with Dalton, are signed up to run the 121^st Boston Marathon on April 17, leading perhaps the strongest Alaskan contingent ever at the granddaddy of all marathons.

In other endurance sports news, Silas Talbot, another Anchorage athlete living in Bozeman, won Idaho’s Boulder Mountain Tour on Feb. 4, finishing the 34-kilometer Nordic ski race in 1:33:42. Talbott edged Brian Gregg, a 2014 Olympian and former University of Alaska Anchorage skier, by one second. – By ASB Correspondent Matias Saari