So every 4th of July fr the last 7 years my family and I have traveled to Seward, Alaska to do a race called Mt. Marathon. It is a brutal race from downtown Seward to the top of Mt. Marathon and back down. The whole race started 81 years ago from two drunk people in a bar betting that nobody could make it up the mountain and back down in less than an hour. Soon the whole town of Seward was in on it. Eventually they had the race and the drunk guy was just over an hour. Since then, the race has been held every year, the record up and down it stands at 43 minutes and 23 seconds. The race is so popular that the race directors separate it into 3 classes and limit the amount or racers. There are 200 participants in the junior race, 300 in the womens and 300 in the mens. Then every year they auction off 10 last minute race spots. They usually go for over $1000. Its crazy.
Anyway I did the thing in 55 minutes and 4 seconds. I was 32nd place in the mens division. The race was nuts though, cause at the top there was a huge snow field, so everybody is sliding on their butts at 20 plus miles per hour doing all possible to stay in control. Above are some pictures of me running through town at towards the finish. And then one picture of Jack and I after the finish. Jack also works at Chain Reaction Cycles.
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