As a founder and president of Alaska Mountain Runners, Precosky has helped shepherd a boom in trail racing in Alaska.
Mountain runner Brad Precosky, photographed in Chugach State Park on Aug. 23. Precosky won many high-profile mountain races in Alaska during his running career, including Mount Marathon six times, co-founded the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame and was instrumental in bringing the World Mountain Running Championships to Alaska for the first time in 2003.
He’d suffered a broken hip after an accident in the mountains. His friends in the mountain running community held a fundraiser for him. “He’s been the face of AMR for 20 years,” Saari said. “And has really helped create a mountain running community that didn’t exist before.”At the time, Precosky was on the cusp of a legendary string of wins at Mount Marathon, which included four straight races from 1999-2002 and six wins in nine years. He also won the Grand Prix six times. But along with the on-course victories, Precosky was advancing the sport and opening up opportunities for a growing fleet of runners.
By 2023, the Grand Prix included eight races with popular events at Knoya Peak, Matanuska Peak and Government Peak.
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