It was déjà vu all over again with the 2019 Missoula Marathon and Half Marathon, as last year’s men’s winner last year’s women’s half marathon repeated their success this year.
Missoula’s own Mark Messmer won the 2018 Missoula Marathon on Sunday morning with a personal best time of two hours twenty-seven minutes, not bad for a young man who did not consider himself much of a runner at Sentinel High School.
Deena Kastor started running at age 11 in 1984, after witnessing Joan Benoit Samuelson, the first American to ever win the Olympic marathon, and she ended up breaking Benoit Samuelson’s American record at the London Marathon.