The 3rd Annual Alaska Relay, a 188-mile relay race from Mirror Lake to Seward, featured 28 teams in four divisions completing the course on Saturday, June 15th in downtown Seward after a grueling relay run from Chugiak on the Glenn Highway, the Chester Creek and Coastal trails in Anchorage and the Seward Highway to Seward.
The Hot Mess Express finished in a new course and event record time of 21 hours, 28 minutes, breaking the record of 23:19 set in 2017. Team members were: Kristyn Turney, Kassandra Burke, Robert Cassidy, Mallory Karp, Ethan Kazmierczak, Whitney Kazmierczak, Kaleb Korta, Jesse Miller, Michel Ramirez, Brenden Turney, Davin Turney and Taylor Turney.
Local team Navigationally Challenged finished fourth overall with a time of 24 hours, 34 minutes competing in the Mixed Open Division. Tema members included: Rustin Hitchcock, Becca Hitchcock, Sean Goff, Kailey Mucha, Addison Gibson, Alex Bergholtz, Mike Bergholtz, Dan Serventi, Erin Carpenter, Cynthia Fudzinski, Patrick Metzger and Lee Frey.
Alaska Relay Race Results
Mixed Open Division
Hot Mess Express 21:28 Overall Winner and New Course Record
Relay & Chill 24:02
Max Lightning Turbo Eagles 24:20
Navigationally Challenged 24:34
Worst Game of Tag Ever 24:44
Bleeding Heart, Bottom of the Barrel 26:58
AMOC-ery 27:02
Men’s Open Division
Copacetic Chaos 27:11
Havering Hyperborean Harriers 27:23
Marga-Relay-Ville 27:50
Ultra, Mixed Open
Team RWB 27:56
Been There, Run That 28:04
Dirty Dozen 28:16
SLAM Alaska 28:27
Women’s Open
Cooper Landing Badfish 28:27
Team BEAR 28:51
Runners on Reserve 28:52
Stampeding Salmon 29:01
This is Gonna Be Great! 29:32
Agony of DeFeet 29:44
Chasing Rainbows 30:06
Eleven Chicks and a Dick 30:09
Mutha Runnas 30:27
Running on Empty / Fun Run in the Midnight Sun 30:31
The Alaska Club 30:47
Run Like the Winded 31:07
Run Wild 31:18
Still Waters 31:38
The race was organized by North by Northwest Relays.
