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 ...

Jul. 3—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 ...

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 ...

Mount Marathon is Alaska's Super Bowl, and you can't have a Super Bowl without predictions. So here you go, courtesy of Matias Saari, the 2009 Mount Marathon men's champion and a board member for ...

Every year on the 4th of July, mountain runners from Alaska and across the world gather to run in Seward's Mount Marathon Race. It's a grueling uphill run that participants register for through a ...

With Seward stuffed with people for 97th running of the Mount Marathon Race on Friday, Anchorage’s Klaire Rhodes, 27, got a little unexpected alone time. Rhodes defended her title in the race up and ...

Mount Marathon, the historic mountain race at the heart of a Fourth of July celebration that draws thousands of people to Seward every year, will skip the party this summer because of the COVID-19 ...

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 ...