Smith completes 24-mile training run in Alaska

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VANCE AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. --  Maj. Jason "Santini" Smith didn't quite reach his goal of completing the Crow Pass Crossing run in under four hours last Saturday just outside Anchorage, Alaska.

His time for the 24-mile run over a mountain pass, through a glacier-fed river and across rocks, roots, snow and gravel was 4 hours, 18 minutes, 14 seconds, placing him 53rd among 119 finishers.

"It was a good training run," said Major Smith, a T-38 instructor pilot with the 25th Flying Training Squadron here at Vance.

He is training for the Leadville Trail 100-mile ultramarathon scheduled Aug. 22 in Colorado.

For more information on Major Smith's preparations for the Leadville Trail 100, see http://www.vance.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123158597