Science writer Ned Rozell, a veteran of more than 20 Equinox Marathon races, embarks on the 2023 race with a heartfelt appreciation of its history.
Runners ascend the old ski hill on the campus of the University of Alaska Fairbanks at the start of the 2015 Equinox Marathon. The Equinox Marathon starts with a cannon blast on the third Saturday of September here at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
I will be out there running over that same old ground on Saturday. To spectators, it may look more like I am executing sort of a slow-motion version of jogging. But, as an acquaintance said to me during a chance meeting in Delta Junction last weekend, I’m still here. Six-year-old Anna Rozell celebrates her finish of the 2009 Equinox Marathon with her father Ned Rozell.
Multiple-time race champion Stan Justice encourages runners at a road and railroad-track crossing in a recent Equinox Marathon. The 59-year-old Equinox was a marathon before marathons were cool. It was the largest marathon by number of participants in the world during its first three years. It included women many years before that became common.
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