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Frank Maier Marathon 2017

Posted on July 30, 2017July 25, 2019
The Frank Maier Marathon in Juneau, Alaska is a moderately hilly marathon held across the Gastineau Channel on Douglas Island. An out and back course on mostly rolling hills with a picturesque view of the Mendenhall Glacier from miles 11-15. Unfortunately the half marathoners turn around too soon for the spectacular view. Cool with a slight drizzle made for perfect race weather in my opinion. A nice small race with a surprisingly flexible early start policy (1, 2, and 3 hours early for some who were hoping to hop a flight to Wrangell to make it an Alaskan double weekend). Post race cookout with grilled salmon (and veggie burgers). Personally I preferred this race to Mayor’s Midnight Sun in Anchorage. Juneau seems to be more of an authentic Alaskan experience than Anchorage in my opinion (to be taken with a huge grain of salt since I’ve spent no more than 60 hours in Alaska total in my two trips) Fun fact: Juneau sees 62 inches of rainfall annually (2 less than Miami); however, it sees 85 inches of snow (85 [edit: more] than Miami) for an average of 230 days of precipitation in an average year. I note this because I forgot my waterproof layer for this trip. DOH!
I tried to capture the glacier. It’s 12 miles away, quite visible with the naked eye, but the camera seems to obscure it in the distance
Quoth the Raven: Where’s your Garmin?
The Boones’ ever present totem, Sock Monkey Boone.
My fascination with running water continues. Suddenly I have to pee.
Another shot of the mountains and the glacier.
Alaska just vomits natural beauty. It’s positively disgusting.
Memorial to Native Alaskan soldiers in war
Paula Boone cranking out the miles
Totem Pole
Andy Bowden moves so fast his a blur up close.
so at least I got one at a distance
Who’s this guy? Is he following me?
The state captial building looks like a regional bank headquarters.
Picture doesn’t do the view of the Mendenhall glacier justice.
Clint Burleson, Larry Macon and Jim Simpson. Something like a brazillion marathons between them, are off to Wrangell.
At the time of it’s purchase, the Alaska Territory, as it was then called, was known as “Seward’s Folley.” The Secretary of State (who was near-fatally knifed the evening of Lincoln’s assassination) secured the purchase at a price of $7.2 million dollars. Upsides: The purchase increased the size of the US by about %20, and brought both billions of dollars of natural resource wealth from gold and later oil. Downsides: Alaska costs us about 40 cents for every dollar of federal revenue generated by the state, and also produced Sarah Palin, so there’s that.
Probably the best distance shot I managed of the glacier. Taken by plane
Turns out you can climb to the top of KTOO if you just ask nicely. it only takes 5 minutes. Juneau Public Meda. Cuz I’m that kind of public radio/tv nerd.
Native SE Alaskan (Tlingit) art.
on course waterfalls
Quoth the Raven: Leave me alone, dude.
Alexis Davidson racewalking the 49th state.
The man, the myth, the legend, the Larry.
Steve Boone on his 7th trip around the states.
For you hardware lovin’ types
Salmon colored bibs for the Marathoners. Get it?
And one for the fashionistas

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