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What it takes to conquer Mount Marathon

Alaska's top trail runners are gearing up for one of the toughest challenges of the season: the Mount Marathon race in Seward. The course climbs- and then descends- an impossibly steep 3,000" in just over three miles. But the extreme nature of the event hasn't hurt participation - runners pay as much as one thousand dollars to compete.Lori Townsend, APRN - Anchorage