One streak lived while another streak ended

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during a brilliantly sunny men’s race at the 97th running of the Mount Marathon Race in Seward.

On a day when David Norris, a 34-year-old who grew up in Fairbanks and now lives in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, was winning his sixth Mount Marathon title in six tries, Seward’s Fred Moore, 85, did not start the race.

That ended a string of 54 straight finishes in the race up and down to the 3,200-foot race point on the mountain overlooking Seward. Moore started the race in 1970 and never stopped until Friday, though c level contact list he was still seen near the top cheering on racers.

“That’s a record that I’m confident will never be broken,” race director Matias Saari said earlier in the week. “Someone else might do 54 years, but no one else is going to do 54 in a row.”

Norris joined Ralph Hatch, Sven Johanson and Brad Precosky with six victories. Bill Spencer has eight.

“It’s crazy how many Spencer won,” Norris said. “I’m honored to do it six times and to keep showing up here and feeling good.”

On a day when temperatures blazed into the low 60s with perfect course conditions, Norris showcased why he hasn’t been beaten.

First, there’s his climbing ability. In 2015, when he smashed the race record, Killian Jornet got to the summit in 31:27.

Norris has now been to the top faster than that three times — in 29:47 last year when he set the record of 40:37, in 30:35 in 2016 when he originally broke Jornet’s record, and Friday on the way to his winning time of 42:30. That time gives Norris four of the fastest five times in race history.