Two 31-year-olds ran the entire length of Perseverance Trail in under 45 minutes on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Allan Spangler, of Juneau, and Seth Rutt, of Phoenix, Arizona, finished first and second respectively in the long course of the Perseverance Trail Run\/Ben Blackgoat Memorial. The race, which featured over 60 runners, gave its participants the option of running all of the trail (7 miles) or parts of it (2 or 4 miles).<\/p>\n
It’s the 21st offering of the grueling mountainous run, hosted by Juneau Trail & Road Runners and named in honor of Ben Blackgoat, an avid teenage runner who died while running Perseverance in 1996.<\/p>\n
Rutt remained on Spangler’s heels throughout the race but said he lost sight of the winning runner after about three miles. Spangler crossed the tape in 42 minutes, 8 seconds. Rutt was close behind, finishing the course in 43:16.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t feel like pushing it that hard on the climb and I think he did get quite a bit closer,” Spangler said. “But then, once we got up there, I just went as hard as I could.”<\/p>\n
Rutt, whose last race was a 50-miler, said the race actually hurt just as much — if not more — than an ultramarathon.<\/p>\n
“Trying to not spike your heart rate too much for 40 minutes or 45 minutes or so is a lot more difficult than just steady, easy pace at an ultra,” Rutt said. “I don’t run fast too often, but when I do, it hurts.”<\/p>\n
It was the third year in a row Alyssa Hobbs has run in the race. Hobbs, 40, took off over six minutes from her time two years ago. She finished with the second-most points overall in last year’s Nugget Alaskan Outfitter Cup and has already run in six races this year.<\/p>\n
“I actually started running these races three years ago; I hadn’t run prior to that,” Hobbs said. “I did it initially to lose weight and just to get out and do something. I’ve lost like 30 pounds and I just really enjoy coming out and talking to people and just running with friends.”<\/p>\n
Finn Morley (28:50) topped the field in the 4-mile run while Quinn Tracy (19:11) won the 2-mile run.<\/p>\n
All race proceeds go into the Ben Blackgoat Memorial Scholarship, which JTRR awards every year to a high schooler.<\/p>\n
Perseverance Trail Run\/Ben Blackgoat Memorial<\/strong><\/p>\n Top-10 Results<\/strong><\/p>\n 7-mile course<\/strong> — 1, Allan Spangler, 42 minutes, 8 seconds. 2, Seth Rutt, 43:16. 3, Zach Bursell, 45:19. 4, Riley Moser, 46:31. 5, Bryan Hitchcock, 46:56. 6, Rob Swanson, 49:29. 7, Hiram Henry, 50:01. 8, Mark Churchill, 51:23. 9, Drew Stafford, 51:33. 10, Bethany Gollin, 52:30.<\/p>\n 4-mile course<\/strong> — 1, Finn Morley, 28:50. 2, Sadie Tuckwood, 31:58. 3, Gus Marx, 32:23. 4, Max Rosen, 34:43. 5, Cindy Tuckwood, 35:42. 6, Jennifer Strumfield, 36:33. 7, David Noon, 36:48. 8, Lindsay McTague, 36:55. 9, Rayna Tuckwood, 37:23. 10, Maisy Morley, 37:53.<\/p>\n 2-mile course<\/strong> — 1, Quinn Tracy, 19:11. 2, Darla Orbistondo, 19:44. 3, Layne Cutnose, 21:53. 4, Blake Cutnose, 21:54. 5, Karly Kelly, 22:22. 5, Heather Parker, 22:22. 6, Cooper Blackgoat, 23:05. 7, Kwame Diehl, 23:08. 8, Michael Fleischhauer, 23:40. 9, Kyla Blackgoat, 50:27.<\/p>\n • Contact sports reporter Nolin Ainsworth at 523-2272 or nainsworth@juneauempire.com. Follow Empire Sports on Twitter at @akempiresports.<\/b><\/p>\n Two 31-year-olds ran the entire length of Perseverance Trail in under 45 minutes on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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