Mount Ripinsky Run champion Chandler Kemp of Haines on Wednesday chopped a whopping 44 seconds off the race course record he set three years ago in the Fourth of July classic, etching the new mark at 24:28.
Kemp topped 21 other finishers on the round-trip course that starts at the American Legion Hall and climbs to a 1,200 feet turnaround on the mountain’s south flank.
Kemp, 22, recently completed a collegiate track career, competing in…
