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University of Alaska Anchorage freshmen Edgar Vera-Alvarado, a Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé 2024 graduate, and Marit Flora, a 2023 Service High School graduate, have their images on an Anchorage People Mover bus. Vera-Alvarado is on the Seawolves cross-country and track teams and Flora is on the Nordic ski team. (Photo courtesy Edgar Vera-Alvarado)
University of Alaska Anchorage freshmen Edgar Vera-Alvarado, a Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé 2024 graduate, and Marit Flora, a 2023 Service High School graduate, have their images on an Anchorage People Mover bus. Vera-Alvarado is on the Seawolves cross-country and track teams and Flora is on the Nordic ski team. (Photo courtesy Edgar Vera-Alvarado)

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Vera-Alvarado found this early in life and it has grown as he has — one stride at a time, one bounding warmup after another, one powerful uphill and glissading sprint back down.

“I guess I’m a little bit shocked with my level of improvement,” Vera-Alvarado said. “I don’t think either me or my coach were expecting me to be at this level right now.”

Last week, Vera-Alvarado ran a 32:21.45 in the 10,000 meters for UAA in the Leopard Invitational at the University of Laverne in California. Runners from more than 75 colleges competed. The time was second fastest on the Seawolves, just behind the 31:05 of senior Zach Grams and ahead of the 33:25.86 of freshman Sam Roy. This season Vera-Alvarado improved his 5K personal record, or PR, to 15:19, nearly a minute faster than his JDHS PR of 16:17.

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“My coach seems to think I’m a low-15 guy,” Vera-Alvarado said. “Being from training in Alaska inside of the dome and then going down to California and trying to do that on 70 degrees is kind of, you know, things have to be perfect in order to put down a good time.”

Vera finished his freshman outdoor cross-country season for the Seawolves in November with a 51st-place finish at the GNAC Championships in Bellingham, Washington — helping the team to a third-place finish out of 10 teams – and a 108th-place finish at the NCAA West Regionals in Billings, Montana, helping the Seawolves to a 10th-place team finish out of 22 teams.