Matt Shryock of Anchorage was the second-fastest American finisher at the 13th World Mountain Running Association Long Distance Mountain Running Championships over the weekend in Slovenia. He placed 15th among 69 male finishers on the challenging 42-kilometer race. His time was 4 hours, 1 minute, 28 seconds. Italian runners went 1-2 with the winner’s time… Read more »
Kenai’s Allie Ostrander and Kodiak’s Levi Thomet each won individual and team medals at the 31st World Mountain Running Championships in North Wales. Ostrander became just the second American woman to win the women’s junior title and it capped a wonderful week that started with the Boise State University freshman winning her college cross country… Read more »
Originally from Montana, Adam Shryock moved to Alaska recently to bolster his mountain running resume. “I thought I needed to go earn my stripes in Alaska,” he told irunfar.com. The 28-year-old had a strong summer in The Last Frontier, where he broke the record in the Turnagain Trail Run from Potter to Rainbow and finished… Read more »
The hottest name in Alaska running is going international. Allie Ostrander of Kenai has been selected to the U.S. Junior Mountain Running Team and will compete Sept. 19 at the world championships in Snowdonia, North Wales. Ostrander, 18, is coming off a fabulous finish at July’s Mount Marathon in Seward in which she broke a… Read more »
They came. They saw. They conquered. They barely broke a sweat. Spaniard Kilian Jornet and Swede Emelie Forsberg today rewrote the record book in the 88th running of Mount Marathon in Seward. Both racers shattered records and made it look pretty easy. Forsberg waved to the crowd as she reached the base of the mountain… Read more »
Alaska’s famed Mount Marathon race in Seward took a major step forward two years ago when Eric Strabel of Anchorage shattered the race’s 32-year-old course record. The three-time champ believes the race will evolve even more this summer after world champion Kilian Jornet of Spain announced his plans to run Mount Marathon on July 4…. Read more »
