The 2026 Mount Marathon Race introduces a team competition and a new children’s event, “Race From the Base,” while eliminating the Skip-A-Year deferral to open more lottery spots.

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 ...

The REVEL Mt. Charleston Marathon and Half Marathon is set to take place in a little over two weeks, impacting traffic in the ...

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 ...

Today it’s just another mountain to most in Alaska and beyond — but not to us in Seward. It’s our mountain. It hovers behind us. It watches our back. The Fourth of July Mount Marathon Race is over and ...