All-Time Records - Equinox Marathon

With well over 50 years of history, the Equinox Marathon, Relay, and Ultramarathon have seen some amazing performances, all the more amazing given the frequently challenging weather and trail conditions. On this page, we’ve attempted to gather together the best of the best of those performances.

One factor to keep in mind is that the marathon course has changed over the years. it’s overall difficulty has stayed constant–there’s no getting around that every year requires climbing Ester Dome twice!–but local development and the shifting landscape has meant varying amounts of the course are on roads and trails, although the latter have always dominated.

The other thing to keep in mind is that this page is new after the 2016 Equinox, and it is most definitely a work in progress. In particular, we don’t have any relay statistics yet, but they will be coming. If you have suggestions for improvements or corrections, please contact the Web master.

We are deeply indebted to John Estle and his SportAlaska Event Timing for recording and compiling these records over the years, as well as providing the fascinating documents you’ll find at the bottom of this page.

All-Time Equinox Records

Gender	Class	Name	Record	Year
Male	Marathon Overall	Aaron Fletcher	2:38:14	2019
Female	Marathon Overall	Anna Dalton	3:07:22	2021
Male	Most Marathons Finished	Corky Hebard	42
Male	Shortest Victory Margin	Tony Davies	0:00:05	1995
Female	Shortest Victory Margin	Marcie Trent	0:00:07	1970
Male	Longest Victory Margin	Kevin Brinegar	0:16:32	2003
Female	Longest Victory Margin	Gail Bakken-Johnson	0:41:15	1963

Analysis Documents

The following documents were provided by John Estle of SportAlaska Event Timing, and explore the breadth and depth of runners of the Equinox over the years. They collectively provide some fascinating insights into the amazing performances of athletes over the years. We’re sure that you’ll be as fascinated as we are by the data.

NOTE: These documents take some serious work to produce. We can’t promise that they’ll be updated each year, but we’ll try to keep them current as soon after each Equinox as we can. But it just won’t happen quickly or even every year.