2026 Anchorage RunFest Marathon - Aug 16

Out-and-back (loop start/finish) marathon course in Anchorage with 197m elevation gain. A genuinely fast 26.2 that starts and finishes on 6th Avenue in downtown Anchorage beside Humpy's Great Alaskan Alehouse. Runners drop onto the paved Tony Knowles Coastal Trail for a roughly 15-mile out-and-back along Cook Inlet — past Westchester Lagoon, Earthquake Park and Point Woronzof — then turn inland for an out-and-back on the Chester Creek greenbelt trail before climbing back into downtown for the fi