On Saturday, 30 runners — and a few dogs! — turned out for the annual Polar Bear Run in Unalaska. It was a surprisingly mild day for this year’s 5K race down Summer Bay Road, with clear skies, little wind and temperatures in the low 30s.
Albert Burnham is the recreation manager for the Unalaska PCR. He wrote, “While no records were set, it was a beautiful day for the race and we had a lot of runners comment on how cool it was to run past a large group of sea lions out by the landfill.”
Here are the winners in each category, including their times:
Masters Men’s:
- 1st Place: Victor Suzuki [35:19]
Masters Women’s:
- 1st Place: Kim Hanisch [34:17]
- 2nd Place: Bernadette Namasivayam [46:17]
- 3rd Place: Juana Acevedo [52:30]
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Adult Men’s:
- 1st Place: Clint Thomson [23:34]
- 2nd Place: Craig Bennett [28:36]
- 3rd Place: Jeriah Smith [30:38]
Adult Women’s:
- 1st Place: Yustiniyana Ivanova [33:24]
- 2nd Place: Beth Whitaker [33:55]
- 3rd Place: Heidi Lucking [39:33]
Teen Boys’:
- 1st Place: Jadon Whitaker [26:50]
Teen Girls’:
- 1st Place: Hedya Whitaker [28:45]
Youth Boys’:
- 1st Place: Enoch Whitaker [29:28]
Youth Girls’:
- 1st Place: Midori Hancock [31:26]
- 2nd Place: Nadia Whitaker [33:25]
The next Unalaska race will be the Summer Solstice Run on June 20.
