In 2025 we are again awarding top male and female finishers of the Military Mile $50 cash.

Anchorage RunFest will host its ninth Military Mile in 2025. Military members register for the Military Mile by choosing the team with which they want to run using the drop down menu. Entry for military personnel (current or past) running the Military Mile is FREE.

Note: Because the Military Mile and Anchorage Mile are separate events, you are not allowed to run the Anchorage Mile instead if you registered for the Military Mile (you are welcome to register separately for the Anchorage Mile).

The purpose of the Military Mile is two-fold. We wish to honor those who serve, or have served, our country by giving them their own race-within-a-race and we want to help foster pride.. The times of the top four finishers from each team. will be added together. The team with the lowest cumulative time of these top finishers will win this year’s Military Mile, an honor that is hotly contested year after year.

The winning team will have the honor of displaying The Military Mile trophy for one year. It will then return to the RunFest for the following year’s champions.

The Military Mile begins in downtown Anchorage on the south side of the Delaney Park Strip at the intersection of West 10th Avenue and G Street. Runners will complete one and a half loops of the following course:

• Head east (towards the mountains) until reaching E Street. Turn left on E Street (north) and left again (west) on West 9th Street. Continue along the edge of the Delaney Park Strip till reaching I Street. Take another left turn (south). Turn left (east) again at West 10th Avenue. Cross the starting line. This is one loop.

The second half loop ends at the intersection of G Street and West 9th Avenue — on the north side of the Delaney Park Strip