Norris goes 6 for 6 in Mount Marathon men’s race

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Inokuma, who hit her fourth top four in four tries at Mount Marathon, said she joked with a friend “that a way to run faster is you have to be in your 40s, have three kids and move to Palmer.”

Strabel, a 2008 graduate of Seward High School, said it’s not only Palmer that’s going fast. She said she heard some runners disappointed at not getting a PR Friday, but said it’s time for some perspective.

Strabel’s eighth place came with a time of 55:14. In c level contact list her career going back to 2008, she’s had better finishes with times of 1:01:26 and 59:07.

“I could be upset, like, ‘Oh, I used to do better, but I can’t be upset,’” she said. “It’s so amazing to be in women’s running right now.”

There were 21 women that broke an hour. Last year, 22 women broke on hour, snapping the record of 15 from 2022.

Anchorage’s Taylor Deal, 31 and a 2012 graduate of Kenai Central, finished 11th with a PR of 56:51. She has three top 10s with times that are all at least a minute slower than that.


“I think if I’d been top 15 today, I would have been really happy, given how competitive this race has gotten,” Deal said. “I just wanted to push myself all the way up and down, and knew I’d be satisfied if I did that.”

Ellyn Brown, 72, of Anchorage and former champ Patti Foldager, 67, of Hope both finished for a 42nd straight time to extend their record.

The Golden Racer option lets those 70 and over race halfway up the mountain. Margaret Spencer, 71, of Anchorage won in 1:11:50 and also broke the 2018 record of 2:06:16 by Vickey Knudson.