Mount Marathon Race

[2] The halfway point is a stone marker[1] on Mount Marathon,[3] 2,974 feet (906 m) above sea level,[4] and a mile and a half from the finish line.

Instituted after the 2013 race, this systems gives racers who have applied before additional entries in the lottery and improving their chances of being selected.

[11] Previous winners of any prior year are allowed to enter until the morning of the race.

[13] Since Seward is a port town, every arriving ship had its challenger who wanted to beat the one hour bet.

[13][15] The event was honored in February 2011 with an official induction into the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame.

He was officially declared dead in August 2012, and his family reached a settlement with the Seward Chamber of Commerce in 2014.

[20] In 2019, the juniors race was cancelled due to air quality concerns related to the Swan Lake Fire, which started in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge on June 5;[21] all racers were given the option to defer entry to 2020.