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Allie Ostrander wins Mount Marathon Junior race for 6th time - DyestatPublished by
Ostrander wins Jr race at Mount Marathon
By Doug Binder, DyeStat Editor Anyone following Allie Ostrander's track and cross country career could tell you that she's faster than most of the boys. But the junior from Kenai, Alaska earned a lot of praise on the Fourth of July by winning the junior girls race at Mount Marathon -- an annual mountain assault up-and-down race that is a very big deal in Seward, Alaska. Ostrander didn't just win the girls race for the sixth straight year, she also was the top overall finisher. When Ostrander made her descent of the mountain she was still behind leader Michael Marshall. But when they hit the paved roads of town for the final 1K to the finish line, she took off and won by 42 seconds. Ostrander won the junior race, which goes halfway up 3,022-foot Mount Marathon, in 28:54. She lowered her own record by 90 seconds. Ostrander is the first female runner to win the overall junior category, but she's been winning the women's division since she was 12. Ostrander's legend in her home state continues to grow. "Maybe I'll get a picture of me on the front of a magazine, behind Allie," Marshall said to the Anchorage Daily News.
Ostrander's exploits on the track have put her among the top handful of runners in the country in the class of 2015. She was second in the Arcadia 3,200 meters. And at New Balance Nationals she was pursuing two-mile winner Hannah DeBalsi until she began to suffer heat stroke symptoms in North Carolina.
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