Howard runs fastest Alaskan time ever at Boston Marathon

Riley Howard of Anchorage had never run the fabled Boston Marathon before Monday.

Now no Alaskan resident has ever run faster there.

Buoyed by a huge crowd on the Patriots’ Day Holiday, the Service High School graduate sped from Hopkinton to Boylston Street in Boston in 2 hours, 22 minutes and 24 seconds — a pace of 5 minutes, 26 seconds per mile. That placed the 27-year-old 58th in the men’s division…

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