How to take power away from food

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How
to take
power
away
from
food
Running in
the Pacific
Northwest
mud runs
what’s the
allure?
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10 // nutrition advantage
How to take power away from food.
12 // the fast lane
Spotlight on Kenyon Neuman.
16 // training edge
The allure of mud runs.
20 // running in the pacific
NorthWest
One runner’s trip to the trails ofWashington.
26 // minimalist shoe review
Our guide to the newest minimalist shoes.
30 // youth running
The 2012 State High School Track Meet.
46 // the lighter side
Much ado about something.
COVER
departments
Heather Utrata dominates the Greenland
Trail 25K in a new course record time.
Photo by steve glass
8 // running shorts
34 // race reports
THIS PAGE // Emma Coburn of Boulder
runs at the Prefontaine Classic.
Photo by Victor sailer / photorun
36 // race results
42 // event guide
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FORT COLLINS
RUNNING CLUB
pu b li s h e r ’ s let te r
Mud Running
and the 2012
Olympics
Have you ever competed in a mud
run? Splashing through the muck and
grime is a growing trend among athletes
in Colorado. While I feel that Colorado
runners have always had a love for dirt by
running on the miles and miles of trails we
love, I have to say that competing in a mud
run takes that passion to a new level. These
events take competitors through grueling,
military-style challenges, such as climbing up a 10-foot tower and jumping into a
pool of mud. Competitors end up covered
in mud – muddy shoes, muddy hair, and
mud caked in every orifice. But people
seem to love them. Mud runs are popping
up like crazy, with 15 such runs in our state
alone. In this issue, we take a closer look at
the growing trend of mud run mania and
provide tips to those of you thinking about
attempting your first mud run.
And, are you ready for the London
Olympics? My parents recently returned
from England where they claim Olympic fever has taken the country by storm. Construction of the Olympic venues has put
millions of people to work and changed the face of London. There were 200 buildings
demolished to make room for new Olympic venues. The total cost of the 2012 Games
is expected to be over $4 billion. As I write this letter, Team USA is gearing up for the
Olympic Track and Field Trials in Eugene, Oregon where dozens of Colorado athletes
are scheduled to compete.
As the days rapidly count down to the London 2012 Olympic Games, Colorado triathletes are getting ready as well. There will be two medal-events at the London
2012 Olympic Games. The women‘s triathlon will be held on August 4, while the men‘s
race will take center stage on August 7. Both events begin at 9 a.m., London time.
Overall, 110 athletes (55 women and 55 men) will be competing for six medals. Hunter
Kemper (Colorado Springs) and Laura Bennett (Boulder) will be representing Colorado
and the USA while competing for gold. Good luck athletes!
Derek Griffiths
Olympic Track & Field Schedule
Fri., August 3
M SP, W 10000
Sat., August 4
M LJ, M 20K Walk, M 10000, W 100, W DT, W Hep
Sun., August 5
M 100, M 3,000 SC, M HT, W 400, W TJ, W Marathon
Mon., August 6
M 400, M 400H, W 3,000 SC, W SP, W PV
Tues., August 7
M 1500, M DT, M HJ, W 100H
Wed., August 8
M 110H, W 200, W 400H, W LJ
Thurs., August 9
M 200, M 800, M TJ, M Dec, W JT
Fri., August 10
M PV, M 4x400, W 1500, W 5000, W HT, W 4x100
Sat., August 11
M 5000, M JT, M 50K Walk, M 4x100, W 800, W HJ, W
20K Walk, W 4x400
Sun., August 12
M Marathon
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Colorado’s Kemper and Bennett Once Again
Earn Olympic Triathlon Team Spots
In an emotional and dramatic finish, Hunter Kemper ran to a
spot on the 2012 U.S. Olympic Triathlon Team with a fifth-place finish at
the ITU World Triathlon San Diego. Kemper of Colorado Springs earned
his fourth consecutive Olympic berth with a time of 1 hour, 49 minutes,
17 seconds on the 1,500-meter swim, 40-kilometer bike and 10-kilometer
run course. The 36-year-old Kemper has qualified for all four Olympic
triathlons - Sydney, Athens, Beijing and, now, London. The race marked
Kemper’s first race since suffering a broken elbow at the Myrtle Beach
ITU Pan American Cup in October 2011.
“It’s a tremendous day for me; I didn’t know if I would actually
be back here. I went through so much … It’s been a struggle,” said Kemper,
who has been the top U.S. male finisher in all three Olympic triathlons
with a top finish of seventh in Beijing.
Laura Bennett of Boulder claimed the third and final spot on
the 2012 U.S. Olympic Triathlon Team with a third-place finish at the
ITU World Triathlon San Diego. Bennett will head to her second straight
Olympic Games in August thanks to a time of 2 hours, 11 seconds on
the 1,500-meter swim, 40-kilometer bike, 10-kilometer run course. She
was fourth in Beijing in 2008. Sarah Haskins of Colorado Springs placed
eighth in 2:00:56 for her first top-10 WTS finish since 2010.
“It’s tough when you have go up against a good friend,” Bennett said on her duel with Haskins, a fellow Beijing Olympian. “I put a
lot of pressure on this day. Last year in London I just had a terrible day
for some reason; I’m still just not quite sure what happened. You know,
in the end I think it was a blessing in disguise because there were things
that I changed in my training that I wouldn’t have changed if I had made
the team and I think it has made me a better athlete. It’s hard to have the
courage to change things when things are going well.”
Chirlee Captures USA 25K Title
Janet Cherobon-Bawcom of Rome, Georgia ran a pending
American Record of 1:24:37 in winning the women’s crown at the 2012
USA 25K Championships while Joseph Chirlee of Colorado Springs
won the men’s title in 1:15:11. The race marked the 19th year that the
championships were hosted by the Fifth Third River Bank Run in Grand
Rapids, Michigan.
A 4:51 opening mile saw Chirlee leading a large pack that
included Robert Letting of Kenya and Derege Tadesse of Ethiopia. After
running 5:00 for the second mile, the leaders increased the tempo to 4:40
pace to break up the pack. By 10 miles, Letting and Chirlee held a lead
of more than 30 seconds over the chase pack.
The remaining miles saw Letting and Chirlee running together
but Letting made his move as they reached downtown, opening a lead
that would take in to the finish line in 1:14:55, 16-seconds ahead of
Chirlee, who still had plenty to celebrate with his first ever U.S. title.
Williams Second in USA Road Mile
Craig Miller and Heather Kampf took the respective men’s and
women’s titles at the USA 1 Mile Road Championships in Minneapolis,
Minnesota. Warm, windy conditions met the competitors for the fourth
annual championships, causing both fields to take a conservative approach to the early stages of the race. Kampf used a late burst to outrun
the field in the last 400 meters, propelling herself to a decisive win over
Alisha Williams of Colorado Springs. Kampf was timed in 4:36.9 with
Williams following in 4:39.6.
Protect Yourself From the Summer Sun
While moving from treadmill to the pavement can be great for your
workout, if you forget to take the necessary steps to protect yourself
from the sun, it can also be detrimental to your health. As with many
cancers, the risk of developing skin cancer can be lowered by taking
simple precautions.
Avoid the sun between its peak hours. Try to work out before 10 a.m.
and after 4 p.m.
Before heading out, apply sunscreen on all exposed skin (always using
an SPF of 15 or higher) and wear hats and sunglasses whenever possible.
If your workout will last more than 40 minutes, bring sunscreen along
and reapply
Select “water resistant” sunscreens. The new FDA guidelines will require
this terminology instead of “sweat proof ” or “waterproof.”
CU’s Kipp Wins NCAA Steeplechase
Racing for the third time at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field
Championships proved to be the charm for University of Colorado junior
Shalaya Kipp as she won the 3,000-meter steeplechase crown. Kipp won
the race in 9 minutes, 49.02 seconds and became the third Buff in school
history to win the title. She also won CU’s fifth title in seven years in the
steeplechase. Jenny (Barringer) Simpson won in 2006, 2008 and 2009
and her current teammate, Emma Coburn, won in 2011.
“Oh my gosh,” Kipp said. “It feels incredible. I’ve dreamt
about it for a long time, so now to actually have a national title feels really cool. When you actually do it, it’s even better than you thought.”
University of Colorado senior Jessica Tebo recorded a thirdplace finish in the 5,000-meter run. Tebo entered the meet with the top
time in the NCAA (15:19.43) and finished with a time of 16:14.32. The
temperature was hot, over 90 degrees on the track, which kept the pace
very conservative and the field close. The pace started to quicken after
3,200 meters, but the lead pack was still tightly packed as no one wanted
to go out too strong with the heat.
Junior Aric Van Halen also earned second team All-America
honors earlier in the day when he recorded a 10th-place finish in the
3,000-meter steeplechase. Van Halen finished with a time of 8:50.64 and
was only five seconds outside of scoring for the Buffs.
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Photography By Rich Cruse / ITU
July/August 2012
n utr iti o n advantag e
It’s bathing suit
season. Do you
panic over shedding
layers of clothing
and exposing your
body? Eeek! When
you have more flab
than you want,
fretting about
excess body fat
easily leads to plans
to go on a diet.
BY NANCY CLARK
Dieting-Not
Allowed!
How to Take Power Away From Food
There are plenty of diet choices: Atkins,
Paleo, Jenny Craig, the Cabbage Soup Diet, the
Banana Diet. Unfortunately, none of these diets
work in the long run. After all, if diets did work,
then everyone who has ever been on a diet would
be lean. Not the case. We are in the midst of an
obesity epidemic.
Not only do fad diets not work, diets commonly
backfire and contribute to weight gain in the long
run. A study with teens that were followed from
middle school into high school indicates the students
who were dieting at the time of the initial survey
were worse off five years later. They were fatter,
struggled with disordered eating or had an outright
eating disorder, and achieved no benefits from their
attempts to lose undesired body fat. Futile efforts.
Why eating is preferable to dieting
Overweight teens commonly become adults who
continue to struggle with food for the rest of their
lives. That’s why, starting at an early age, we need
to discourage dieting and instead focus on eating
healthfully and appropriately. If you don’t go on a
diet, you won’t “blow your diet,” gorge on cookies, and gain weight. Eating normally - enjoying
appropriate amounts of wholesome foods when
your body needs fuel during the day - leads to an
appropriate weight.
Normal eating includes enjoying a good
balance of wholesome foods, but not limiting yourself to only “healthy foods.”
That is, you don’t have to have a perfect
diet to have a good diet. A healthy
food plan can include 85% to 90%
“quality calories” and 10% to 15%
“whatever.”
Striving to eat a perfect diet
commonly
results
i n
deprivation of foods you truly like to eat. You will
inevitably end up bingeing on those foods, sooner
or later. Think about it this way: If you put a little
boy in a roomful of toys and tell him he can play
with all the toys except for the green truck, what
is the first toy he’ll reach for? Yup, the green truck.
Hence, if you like chocolate cake, but tell yourself
you shouldn’t eat it, what will you relentlessly hanker for? Yup. Chocolate cake.
How to take power away from food
The way to take power away from “binge food”
is to eat it more often, not stay away from it. For
example, if you like chocolate cake, you should
eat it every day until you get sick of it. Don’t
believe me? Do this experiment: For one week,
eat your binge food every day instead of your normal breakfast, lunch, snack, and/or dinner. (You
will not die of malnutrition in a week.) Observe
what happens. The chances are that after three
days of chocolate cake, you’ll hanker for shredded
wheat again. And even if you want to continue
to eat cake, a recent study indicates you can still
lose weight on the Chocolate Cake Diet. In this
study, the subjects who enjoyed chocolate cake
for breakfast had better dietary compliance and
ended up losing more weight than the people who
were instructed to eat diet foods.
Ideally, you want to learn to enjoy a daily food
plan that includes a variety of mostly wholesome
foods that are satiating, health promoting, and
tasty. You want to eat heartily at breakfast and
lunch, to prevent energy lags and cravings for
sweets. You want to plan an enjoyable afternoon
“second lunch” that helps energize the end of your
work day and curbs your appetite for dinner. Then,
at night, you want to eat a little bit less and lose
undesired body fat when you are sleeping. The goal:
To wake up ready for breakfast, and perpetuate the
cycle of fueling by day, dieting by night.
While these suggestions to eat “normally” are
seemingly simple, many dieters find the advice
is hard to implement. They are afraid that once
they start eating, they won’t stop. This overcompensation is “diet backlash,” strengthened
by years of “last chance to eat cake so I’d
better eat it all now before the diet starts
again tomorrow.” There is a more peaceful way
to manage weight.
What is normal eating?
The following information offers tips for how to
eat appropriately. Please trust that appropriate eating will lead you to an appropriate weight. Eating
specialist Ellyn Satter RD, (www.EllynSatter.
com), author of Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family
offers the following definition of normal eating.
• Normal eating is going to the table hungry and
eating until you are satisfied. It is being able to
choose food you like and eat it and truly get enough
of it - not just stop eating because you think you
should.
• Normal eating is being able to give some thought
to your food selection so you get nutritious food,
but not being so wary and restrictive that you miss
out on enjoyable food.
• Normal eating is giving yourself permission
to eat sometimes because you are happy, sad, or
bored - or just because it feels good. Normal eating
is three meals a day, or four or five - or it can be
choosing to munch along the way.
• Normal eating is leaving some cookies on the
plate now because you know you can have some
again tomorrow - or it is eating more now because
they taste so wonderful.
• Normal eating is overeating at times; feeling
stuffed and uncomfortable - or it can be undereating at times and wishing you had more. Normal
eating is trusting your body to make up for your
mistakes in eating.
• Normal eating takes up some of your time and
attention, but keeps its place as only one important
area of your life.
• In short, normal eating is flexible. It varies in
response to your hunger, your schedule, your proximity to food and your feelings.
Is it time to start learning how to eat normally?
Nancy Clark is a board certified specialist in sports
dietetics. Her Sports Nutrition Guidebook and
food guides for new runners, marathoners, and
soccer players offer additional information. They are
available at www.nancyclarkrd.com and sportsnutritionworkshop.com.
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kenyon neuman
Boulder resident Kenyon Neuman has a bright future ahead of him. At only 25 years young, Neuman has been climbing the running ranks since his successful years on the Track and Field Team at
CU Boulder. This year, Neuman placed sixth overall at the Bolder Boulder 10K elite race in 30:36. He
followed that up by running at the Portland Track Festival 5,000 meters in 13 minutes, 40 seconds.
But this articulate Nike Racing Team runner isn’t just out to win races, he’s also a part of various
up-and-coming training programs to help others achieve their goals as well. As Vice President at
Zone Sports Management, Neuman develops training videos for runners and other athletes. He
trains in Boulder with Hudson Training Systems, and he’s also a Cross Country Coach at Boulder
High School.
Read on to find out how Neuman balances his busy lifestyle and training regimen with calculated
recovery steps (think: lots of sleep and root beer milk!) to stay on track.
by amanda hodges
What are some of the biggest highlights in your racing career?
I think the biggest highlight of my
racing career to this point has been winning the
Big 12 Track and Field Championships as a men’s
team in front of our home crowd in Boulder,
Colorado back in 2008. Everything just came
together perfectly. Our sprinters, throwers and
distance runners all brought it and we ended up
winning CU’s first and only Big 12 men’s track
and field title. I had many great friends on that
team who were graduating that year and the
Boulder community supported us in a huge way.
What are your long-term goals?
I’m not completely sure yet. All I know
is that I want to run fast and win races. I want
to improve continually. Right now, making an
Olympic team isn’t really a reality but it could be
in the future if I make the right decisions and have
a little luck. I definitely want to wear a USA jersey
at some point. I want to break a 4-minute mile.
I want to break 2:10 for the marathon. I’d love
to break 13:00 for a 5k but that’s not a reality at
the moment either. I just want to run fast, make
myself better continuously and compete at a very
high level.
Why Colorado?
Colorado is just an amazing place.
You’ve got open, forested areas, mountains everywhere, tons of sunshine, State and National Parks,
skiing, all four seasons, endless trails, etc. From
what I’ve seen this is the most active state in the
country. I just love the area, the attitude and the
people. There aren’t many better states to live in
if you love to explore, exercise and participate in
a wide variety of activities. If you’re an endurance
athlete, skier, hiker, climber or camper this place
is paradise. I also love that Denver and DIA are
Photography By victor sailer / photorun
so close. I can enjoy the perks of living in the
city when I feel like it and the proximity to DIA
makes traveling easy.
Take us through a “day in the life” of
kenyon neuman.
Run, Work, Run, Dinner, Sleep. That’s
about it. Kinda boring but I like to mix it up with
some social stuff, basketball, weights, snowboarding and other activities. I coach cross country and
track at Boulder High School as well.
What are one or two things you currently do in your training that are
keys to your success?
Getting plenty of sleep is huge. If I
can get 9-10 hours a night I’m a whole different
runner. I’m stronger, faster, less injury-prone and
I recover like crazy. Other than that, eat healthy
and run hard. I don’t think there are any short-cuts
that work so well as sleep, healthy eating and lots
of hard running.
Do you follow any nutrition plans?
I’ve been trying to avoid bread. I feel far
better when I eliminate most of the bread from
my diet. I try to eat gluten free but I find it’s easier
to avoid gluten 80%-90% of the time. That way
you don’t go insane. I try to eat lots of leafy greens
and veggies but I’ve never been a big vegetable
eater so it’s hard for me. I love to eat ribeye steaks
or sockeye salmon with some steamed vegetables
like broccoli with cheddar cheese. Those meals
always leave me feeling full but still ready to rock
the next day.
Do you have any recommended resources to share?
Yes! findyourzone.tv. I work at Zone
and we’re creating great educational videos for
runners and other athletes. The videos cost $1.00
each but a single video could make a huge difference in your running and your race performances.
It’s a great platform because it allows you to
connect with expert coaches and athletes that you
otherwise wouldn’t have access to. I’ve been using
many of our running videos in my own training.
In terms of books, I’d recommend any training material from Arthur Lydiard or my current
coach, Brad Hudson. If you’re in need of a coach,
you should contact Hudson Training Systems. You
can follow them on twitter at @hudsontsystems or
check out their web-page at bouldersportsmedicine.org/hts.html.
What are your favorite local races?
The Pearl Street Mile is a really cool
event and it would be great if the crowd down
there continued to grow as it has in the past. I
also really enjoyed the Boulder Marathon this last
year. Though I haven’t run it, I really think that
The Leadville 100 is probably to most unique and
exciting running event in the state. I will definitely
run the Pike’s Peak Ascent Marathon and HalfMarathon one day. I definitely have to get out and
participate in some of the great races our state has
to offer.
Where do you like to train?
In and around Boulder. There are so
many great trails just right out the front door here.
Between the Mesa Trail, Marshall, Doudy Draw,
Green-Bear, South Boulder, Teller Farm and
Bobolink I’m pretty content. If you’re willing to
drive up to a half-hour you can get to Switzerland
Trail, Magnolia Road, Gold Hill Road, Rollinsville and more. Crested Butte is also a beautiful
area to run or ride a bike. It’s exciting to know that
I haven’t even scratched the surface when it comes
to all of the great trails in Colorado.
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some of kenyon’s favorite things
Favorite post-run beverage
Root Beer Milk after hard sessions. It’s a long story. I used
to think this was a myth but
supposedly, after several
studies, clinical trials, etc.
chocolate milk is supposed
to be one of the best recovery drinks immediately
after bouts of long or intense running as it has an
ideal ratio of carbs to protein. I’m not supposed to
eat chocolate so I figure
Root Beer, strawberry or
vanilla milk are all good
replacements.
Favorite post race meal
Usually something greasy, fatty, salty or all of
the above.
Favorite Restaurant
Zolo Grill
2525 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder
Pasta Jays is also amazing but
I’ve been on this Gluten-Free
kick lately…
Favorite Coffee Shop
Brewing Market
1918 13th Street, Boulder
I don’t drink coffee any more, but I
used to drink it a lot. In my
opinion the strongest and
tastiest coffee in Boulder
comes from Brewing
Market. In terms of atmosphere I probably have to
go with The Laughing Goat
as it’s “hip” and they have
local musicians performing
on many evenings.
Favorite Bar
The Rio Grande
1101 Walnut Street, Boulder
My favorite thing to do in the summer is
have a margarita or a Corona on the rooftop
while the sun is setting behind the flatirons.
The chips and salsa are free and if it’s hot
out they turn the misters on. If you’re talking
about a bar in the more traditional sense of
the word, I think I’d have to go with a classy
joint called The Sundown Saloon.
Favorite Running Store
Boulder Running Company
2775 Pearl Street, Boulder
They have a fantastic selection of footwear
and apparel. Before Nike sent me schwag in
the mail I could buy all the Nike apparel I love
to run in at BRC. More importantly, the staff
and ownership at BRC are big into running.
They’re good people who love to hook you
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up with the shoes that will keep you healthy
and running fast. Their Wednesday night runs
are right up my alley because friends, beer,
pizza and prizes are all I really need to be
happy.
Favorite running shoe
Nike Lunar Fly or Nike Structure Triax
Favorite non-running activity
I have many. Cycling, soccer, basketball,
tennis, snowboarding, etc. I love watching
sports live or on TV. I’m a big Steelers fan, I
play a lot of fantasy football and I love NFL
Redzone. In the summer I catch a few Rockies games and I love to sit in the Rock-pile
because it’s a fun crowd and the tickets are
only $5.
Favorite TV Show
Dexter – It’s suspenseful, gory, action packed
and filled with mystery.
Favorite book
I don’t have one favorite book. I’m all over
the place. I really like Jon
Krakauer’s stuff. I like
Hemingway. I’m a big fan
of the Harry Potter books.
I’m trying to jump on the
Hunger Games bandwagon. I don’t read many running books but there are a
couple on my shelf at the
moment. I don’t read that
vampire bologna either.
Favorite movie
Can’t name just one, sorry… I’m a big BluRay, Hi-Def, Surround-Sound fanatic and a
couple of my favorites visually and audibly are
“The Art Of Flight” and “The Dark Knight”.
In terms of comedies I love “Tommy Boy”,
“Dumb and Dumber” and more recently
“Horrible Bosses” and “Due Date”. If I need
inspiration I watch “Gladiator”.
trai n i n g e d g e
The Allure of
the Mud-Run and
New Beginnings
What makes an overweight, out of shape person spend upwards of $60 to endure 3.5 10.1 miles of physical activity that they have been avoiding for years?
Mud! And not just mud, but a mud-run event,
and the mind-set that’s required to dress as if
it were Halloween while tackling a militaryinspired obstacle course. That, and the irrational
goal of putting mud, sweat, and tears between
yourself and a free beer. Who in their right mind
would pay for this? As it turns out, hundreds of
thousands of people - dressed like they’re going
to Burning Man - pay a premium to do just that
every year. So, what is the allure of a mud-run? A
mud-run is a mix of whimsical fun and physical
exertion that is simultaneously daft mentally and
dead serious physically. It’s the perfect event
for a person who is ready to make a change but
needs a cloak to do it under. It’s also the perfect
reminder for a lot of people that they’re not in
as good of shape as they think they are - and
that they’re not getting any younger either. How
would I know this? Because I’m that person.
My wife and I signed up for the Warrior Dash
last year, after a few inspired, but ultimately
failed attempts at running. I think we had an
unspoken agreement between each other that
we had to do something before all of these years
of being busy parents and sitting in office chairs
caught up with us. It’s pathetic what an office
chair will do to your health. We needed something that was just as extreme as our fitness was
dull, and what better way to throw ourselves
into that fire pit than to willingly sign up for an
event that ends by literally jumping over a line
of burning logs and ankle-singeing flames? We
didn’t train for the event beyond a few P90X
workouts over a couple of weeks, and we weren’t
exactly ready for the altitude, even though we’ve
lived in Colorado for decades.
So when race day came, we made our way
to Copper Mountain, lined up with the rest of
team “Not in Shape,” and ran for the hills. The
starting line jockey had the crowd bouncing
up and down like a Limp Bizkit concert as the
horn sounded. It was at this moment that one
of a few things became very clear:
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by cameron stewart
When at an event with over a thousand people,
no one really “takes off” from the starting
line like you see in movies. Everyone just kinda
tiptoes forward until they find enough space to
take a full step - It’s really anticlimactic, and a
bit of a buzz kill.
Once the race starts, any nerves you had about
the event melt away in the first quarter mile.
The reason your nerves regain their composure
after a quarter mile is because you realize that
the first obstacle is almost a half mile from the
2
starting line. Nobody mentioned that part, and
by the time we finished the initial run we were
looking up a large hill, with a tire obstacle staring
right back at us. This was immediately followed
by a few other overcrowded obstacles, and one
last decline before we hit “the pit.” The reason
we were all here was then right in front of me,
and when I got to it, I jumped in with all I had,
landing feet-first in two feet of filthy glory. It’s
awesome and it was absolutely worth the effort
to get there! At that point, a couple more things
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Dirty Dozen Mud Run
Gypsum
7/21/2012
Survivor Mud Run
Johnstown
7/28/2012
Kiss Me Dirty Women’s Mud Run
Parker
7/28/2012
SHAPE Diva Dash
Boulder
8/4/2012
Big Dog Brag Mud Run
Colorado Springs
8/4/2012
Muck Ruckus MS
Winter Park
8/12/2012
Columbia Muddy Buddy
Boulder
8/18/2012
Warrior Dash
Copper Mountain
9/1/2012
Devil Dash
Lyons
9/8/2012
Mud Brigade
Loveland
9/22/2012
Dirty Girl Mud Run
Byers
5/4/2013
Spartan Race
Fort Carson
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Rugged Maniac
Lakewood
6/15/2013
Tough Mudder
Avon
TBD June 2013
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Aurora
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the columbia muddy buddy at the boulder
reservoir.
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Sloan’s Lake, Denver
became very clear:
Don’t jump feet first into the mud pit! As it
turns out, the top is a nice manageable liquid, but the bottom is a bit more like the pile of
industrial glue that Wile E. Coyote would find
himself in after almost catching the Road Runner.
I was ankle deep in mud so thick that the only
way I was getting my foot back was to loose the
shoe it was laced into. I spent the next 60 seconds
chest deep, fumbling in the muck, searching for
a shoe that would never be the same again. I did
manage to finally dig it out and slosh through
the remainder of the pit with one bare foot, but
found I was now missing my sock, and couldn’t
even fit my foot back in the shoe because it was
so full of mud.
As it turns out, the guy wearing only a loincloth
was probably the best dressed runner for a mud
pit. It’s a bold statement - and certainly debatable
on moral grounds (not to mention requiring a
certain level of self-assuredness) - but most of
the mud that he collected in the pit was quickly
washed away by the over-anxious 8-year-old girl
with her garden hose. My athletic, lightweight,
wicking, stretchy, breathable shirt was hanging
to my knees, and the neck was somewhere around
my belly button - maybe a jock strap and a Jason
mask would have been a better choice.
After the mud pit, the rest of the course is painfully slippery and slow to get through. I was now
carrying an extra 10 pounds of mud, running
without a sock in a mud-packed shoe, and doing
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my best to hold my shirt up off my knees. The
crowd was now divided into two teams:
those who were in shape and just getting a little dirty before getting back
to the party at base camp, and those
that were stupid enough to sign up
for this torturous event without any
significant forethought. While I
found myself in the latter group, I
Dress as if your were a teenage
knew then that I never wanted to be
girl or wear 100% cotton shirts.
in that group again. We finished the
Don’t jump in the mud pit. Ease
course balancing on beams, climbing
in and watch out for the girl with
walls, bloodying our knees on cargo
the hose - she has bad aim.
nets, and eventually burning off all
Choose your shower
of our ankle hairs on wildly burning
partners wisely.
gasoline soaked logs. The race was
over, but even then, there were still a
Have a friend at the event who isn’t
few more lessons to be learned:
running to take pictures and hold a
You will have mud in every little
change of clothes for you.
crevice of your body. Yep, even
Bring some real beer with you
there! You’ll wonder how little kids
in the car for after the event.
can possibly deal with a messy diaRevel in the glory when you’re
per.
done... it’s even better than you
It’s a long walk back to the car,
think and you’re surrounded by countless
while covered in mud, tired, and
others that have just been through
highly uncomfortable below the waist.
the same life-changing
We had to walk for a good half mile to
experience. Take it all in
get to our car, then walk the distance
and enjoy!
back again to the showers to clean
up.
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Be prepared to shower with 50 of your newest
friends. I stood between a man dressed as a
nun and a young college girl who had a very free
spirit. As great as that might sound to some of
you out there, trying to remove the mud from
your shorts and very personal nether regions in
between a nun and a college girl is a surprisingly
awkward situation.
In spite of all of these discoveries, as we walked
up from the showers and tossed our shoes in a
recycle pile near the Porta-Potties, a certain feeling of accomplishment came over me that was
surely induced by simply surviving my first ever
mud run. It was awesome! We made our way to
the free beer line, which is evidently why we were
all there in the first place, and I found myself
strangely at peace being surrounded by a bunch
of people I didn’t really know, wearing costumes
that teenage girls try to sneak out of the house in.
I said to my wife and friends “This is pretty cool.
We should do this every year.” And we will. This
year, we’ll all be at the starting line again, jumping
in anticipation and tippy-toeing our way to a new
set of obstacles that we’ve put between ourselves
and an absolutely horrible free beer. I can’t wait!
Cameron Stewart is an avid Colorado runner
and owner of www.mudrunshirt.com, a Beta Ro
Omega Company.
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August 11
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August 17
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Pacific
Running
in the
Northwest
A
s the plane touched down
at Denver International
Airport, I felt a rare wave
of sadness wash over me.
Throughout my many travels,
I’ve always looked forward to
coming home - returning to that
comfortable place that I know
so well; returning to my family,
my own bed and speedy coffee
maker; returning to my regular
running routes and local trails.
This trip was different though.
This trip was unforgettable - one
that I wasn’t ready to return from.
BY Amanda Hodges
I had literally jumped at the opportunity
to take part in a week-long running trip in the
Pacific Northwest. Visit Washington State and
explore its natural wonders with a local guide? Seriously, where do I sign? When I arrived in Seattle,
I really didn’t know what to expect. How many
other runners would there be? Would our guide
be a drill sergeant? Would there be enough food?
Rational questions I’m sure anyone would ponder.
Our local guide, Jennifer, picked us up at the
airport (holding a running shoe instead of a sign
- awesome!) and loaded us and our gear into the
van. As we tooled around the metropolitan spots
and had some lunch along Puget Sound, I couldn’t
help but size-up the other runners on the trip. It
almost felt like the beginning of a race when you
judge how fast other runners are based on their
looks and warm-up activities - c’mon, you know
you do it!
Let’s see, there was Nick, the Financial Analyst Boston Qualifier - Coloradan. Also from Colorado
was Molly, the Restaurant Manager - marathon
runner - triathlete. There was Christy, the Cardiac
Sunset from Edmonds overlooking Puget
Sound towards the Olympic Peninsula.
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Nurse - recreational road runner from Arkansas,
and of course our local guide, The Honorable Jennifer Johnson (as she liked to be called), a twelveyear personal training veteran and avid hiker that
would lead our Northwest running expedition. I
had no idea what to expect.
Our adventure officially began the day after
we arrived in Washington, when we boarded the
ferry that took us from Edmonds to the Olympic
Peninsula. Our first stop? Port Gamble, a quaint
little town that allowed for about a mile of running
and getting our legs warmed up. From there we
drove on to Fort Flagler, an old military base with
extensive views over the water and the surrounding mountain ranges. Jennifer set up a boot camp
where we aptly performed exercises while enjoying
the views. After another two mile run around the
base we were back in the van and off to Sequim
and the Dungenous Spit, a gorgeous beach and
view of Victoria Island and a mile and a half run.
Our next destination was Crescent Lake, one of
my favorite trails on the trip (you’ll hear this often).
We began our six mile run along the Moments in
Time Trail - a dream-like forest along the lake
with tall, old trees that made me feel as comfortable as sitting at my Grandmother’s kitchen table.
I forgot about the others and simply took in the
surroundings. A fallen tree-turned-bridge took
us to Marymere Falls, a spectacular waterfall at
the end of a heart-pounding climb. After that,
we followed the Barns Creek Trail up and around
technical single track back to the trailhead.
Some of the best parts of the trip were the evenings that followed. The first couple of nights we
stayed in a secluded house along the Sol Duc River.
Jennifer whipped together delicious dinners and we
sat around talking about our favorite parts of the
day. I’m not sure I’ve had better nights’ sleep than
after a full day of running, hiking and exploring,
followed by a great meal, good laughs and some
deep relaxation.
Our second full day started on Cape Flattery
- the northwestern-most point in the lower 48
states. After about a mile and a half to the point
and back, we headed to Neah Bay and the Makah
Indian Museum. While the Pacific Northwest has
an enormous amount of Indian influences, we had
Photography courtesy of amanda hodges
Marymere Falls near Lake
Crescent in Olympic National
Park
specific plans to run a nine and a half
mile route within the Reservation that
the Ozette tribe had inhabited more
than 500 years ago. After a mud slide
hit and buried the Ozette houses, an
excavation was initiated that uncovered precious artifacts that were then
salvaged and displayed at the Makah
Museum.
After learning about the history of
the trails we’d be running, we headed
out to the trailhead. The three miles
out to the beach were incredible. Instead of typical trail terrain, we ran
through the forest on an elevated
boardwalk that made me feel like I was
flying. Varying from zero to almost
four feet above the forest floor, the
boardwalk trail was something I had
never experienced before. We hit the
beach for another three miles, checked
out some sweet petroglyphs from the
Ozette tribe, and then ran another three and a half
miles on the boardwalk trail back to the trailhead.
Day number three brought us to the Hoh Rainforest, one of the most naturally beautiful places I’ve
ever had the opportunity of running. After being
warned by the park ranger of bears, cougars and
aggressive elk, our crew started out in the Hall of
Mosses trail, a mile-long twisting trail that looks
more like a screen saver than anything you’d see in
real life. We then headed out on the out-and-back
section of the trail that took us along the river.
While no one encountered any wildlife, we did
experience some spectacular and technical single
track trail running (think: hopping over giant fallen
trees and skinny log crossings).
After seven invigorating miles in the rainforest, we headed to the west coast of the Olympic
Peninsula, running along Second Beach, La Push
and Rialto Beach. After five rainy miles along
the beaches, we all zonked out for the ride to Port
Townsend, where we stayed on Fort Worden in
historic officers’ quarters for the night. Built in
the early 1900’s, the accommodations and scenery
were incredible.
Waking up in Fort Worden on the fourth
day we started out with three miles within the
old military base. After that, we packed up and
headed to Whidbey Island where we encountered
another historic military base: Fort Casey. After
running around the camp and checking out the old
guard posts, cannons and barracks, we ran through
Coupeville, a small seaside town, and then headed
to Deception Pass.
The pass, separating Whidbey Island from Anacortes, had some of the most spectacular and aweinspiring views yet seen on the trip.
Looking out onto the calm water, I saw
the reflection of the clouds in the sky,
creating an infinite panorama that will
be stuck in my memory forever. Our
crew stuck together through six miles
of exciting single track and climbing,
and then finished up the run on another gorgeous beach front.
Now I have to say that at this point
in the trip everyone was pretty sore.
The mood was slowly changing from
individual experiences to group encouragement. This was personally a
new and interesting exchange for me.
I’ve always been more of a solo runner,
but running with a group that has gone
through similar experiences makes you
less aware of your own feelings and
more aware of the others around you.
It helps you forget those negative internal thoughts that can eat at you during
difficult running moments (like mile
23 of your last marathon).
It’s for this reason that there was no
better time to head to Orcas Island,
one of the most serene, quiet and fairy
tale-like places I’ve ever been. We took
the ferry through the San Juan Islands
and disembarked at Orcas. After stopthe author Running along the beach of
Deception Pass State Park, overlooking
ping to stock up on supplies we headed
Deception Pass.
down the Enchanted Forest Road to
our Beach Haven cabins, just in time to
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Running the trails of the Hoh Rain
Forest in Olympic National Park, WA.
see one amazing sunset. We all sat on the decks of
our beach front cabins and became entranced with
the silence and the beauty of the island.
Day five was hands down one of my favorites.
We headed out to Moran State Park for an intense
twelve mile hike and run through the difficult trails
within the park. We hiked about four miles up to
the summit of Mount Constitution, enjoying views
of Mount Baker along the way. The remaining eight
miles of technical single track through the forest
were some of the most personally enlightening
miles I’ve ever experienced in my running career. I
had sore legs, a sore body, but an open mind. I ran
through that forest like I was on fresh legs and in
the middle of a race. I was so happy and enthralled
by the experiences I’d had in the past week that I
wanted nothing more than to keep running and
hope to never stop.
To make things even better, we topped off our
tough twelve miler with a trip to the natural hot
springs in Doe Bay. Relaxing my sore muscles in
the hot springs while overlooking the bay below
seemed almost dream-like. We proceeded to head
back to our Beach Haven cabins, eat dinner, enjoy
a glass of wine and some well-deserved s’ mores.
That night we all fell asleep to the sound of pattering
rain on our cabin roofs.
The sixth and second-to-last day began with a
hike up and down Turtleback Mountain, offering
panoramic views of Orcas and its outlying islands.
We then hopped back on the ferry to return to
Anacortes. As we drove into town, Jennifer turned
off the main road and had us jump out and run down
a rural road with Mount Vernon in the background.
While at this point in the trip we weren’t too surprised by our guide’s spontaneous direction-giving,
we were a bit perplexed by the lack of scenery on
the road. After about a half of a mile we turned a
corner and saw one of the largest expanses of tulips
we’d ever seen.
We had run into the regional tulip festival where
over 5,000 acres of land were full of blooming,
colorful tulips. Just when we thought we had seen
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everything we could, we stumble upon one of the
most beautiful vistas yet. After enjoying the fruits
of the tulip festival we ran through the adorable
seaside town of LaConnor and then headed back to
Edmonds for the last night in Washington.
On the seventh and last day, our guide Jennifer
- who did not turn out to be a drill sergeant - was
not going to let us off too easily. We all successfully managed to run a sore and hilly six and a half
miles around Edmonds before heading down to
Seattle, Pike Place Market and SeaTac Airport to
head back to reality.
Looking back, it seems almost too easy to explain
the week of running and adventures I experienced.
Even looking through pictures I feel the same way.
It’s hard to verbalize those feelings, like the moment
I broke through the trees on the ascent to Mount
Constitution and saw one of the most beautiful
landscapes of Mount Baker and the surrounding
islands, or the heart-pumping feeling of running
up a steep climb to be rewarded with a stunning
waterfall at the top. The combination of personal
athletic prowess, physical exertion and a strong passion for the outdoors and nature will yield the most
fantastic results that most fail to realize. It’s running
adventures and trips like this one in particular that
will bring you back to that important realization.
Some runners may deny it, but there are points in
every athlete’s career when they just don’t feel con-
nected to the sport. Whether it’s due to overtraining, an injury or simply detachment, it’s common
for runners to feel this way. Maybe some need a
break to recover or stop overanalyzing their training,
while others just need to reconnect with the sport.
Personally, a trip like mine to the Northwest was
exactly what I needed to remind me of why I love
running so much. There’s no attitudes, no finish
lines, no clocks, no spectators, no pressure.
My adventures running around the scenic Northwest brought me back to why I started running
in the first place. It put the fun and joy back into
running, or at least reaffirmed the outlook I once
had. It was new, spontaneous, stunning and carefree - exactly what running should be. While yes,
of course, I love to push myself and post PR’s, but
I sometimes get too technical and need someone
or something to remind me of why I run. There’s
nothing like a new adventure with zero demands
to help find your running roots and get you to run
giddy again.
Dear Pacific Northwest (and the Honorable JJ),
thank you - I’ll be back soon!
Amanda Hodges is the race ambassador and web
editor for Colorado Runner. Amanda used Running
Trips Northwest (www.runningtripsnorthwest.
com) for this tour. The cost of her tour is $1,900 plus
airfare to Seattle.
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yo uth ru n n i n g
state track
2012
- bill stahl
Records are meant to be broken, they say, but this season
may have brought a record
number of records in Colorado
high school track. The mild,
fairly calm spring weather allowed athletes to train better, achieve loftier marks than
seen in recent years, and
raise the level of competition
at the State meet to thrilling
heights.
heather Bates of Discovery
Canyon (1) would eventually
overtake Denver South’s Sydney
Scott in the 4A girls 3200.
Raymond Bozmans of Fort Collins
winning the 5A boys 100 meter title.
T
he cooperative conditions also
allowed the stars of Colorado
prep track to shine. The state’s
brightest luminary, sprinter Raymond
Bozmans of Fort Collins, certainly
delivered the goods this season, while
also providing an element of controversy at the State meet. At the Dakota
Ridge Invitational on April 21, Bozmans shattered the all-time state mark
for the 100 meter dash, clocking 10.27
seconds, which also happens to be
fast enough to qualify this 17-year old
senior for the Olympic Trials. With
the #3-ranked time in the country,
Bozmans earned an invitation to the
adidas Dream 100 in New York on
June 9. He also registered 20.87 seconds in the 200, and 47.35 in the 400.
Bozmans trained all season with an
eye toward winning all three events at
the State meet, which would require
running a trio of finals on the meet’s
final day. That day was a cool, damp,
and dreary one at Jeffco Stadium in
Lakewood, not exactly the favorite
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climate for most sprinters. On top
of that, Bozmans was nursing a balky
hamstring. Before the Class 5A 100
final in a steady rain, Fort Collins
coach Conrad Crist was uncertain
whether his prize sprinter’s leg would
be able to survive the schedule. Bozmans’ fairly relaxed win in 10.51 allayed those concerns. Bozmans went
on to capture the 400 title in 47.56 and
finally the 200 in 21.42.
Athletes are permitted four events
in each meet, so Crist needed to
choose in which sprint relay Bozmans
would have the greatest impact in the
team score. That turned out to be
the 4x200 meter relay, and Bozmans
would understandably run the anchor
leg in the prelims. He took the baton
with three runners ahead of him, and
overtook all of them. But the impressive leg lost its luster when Bozmans
passed the second-place anchor from
Fountain-Fort Carson just before
crossing the finish line and stuck out
his tongue at him. The act, reportedly
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preceded by some pre-race jawing, led to further
confrontation between the two teams afterward.
Crist took the step of removing Bozmans from the
final the following day. Without Bozmans in the
lineup, the Lambkins’ 4x200 relay team finished
ninth out of nine teams in the final.
If there was anyone who one could say led wireto-wire this season, it would be Monarch’s Kirk
Webb. The future University of Pennsylvania runner dominated every race he entered, and from the
start was focused on winning the 1600 state title
and breaking the state 800 record. Webb knew
that in order to notch the long-sought 800 record,
he would need a breakneck first lap. Webb threw
down a 54, exactly according to his plan. Squeezing out the last few meters, Webb broke the tape in
1:51.75, just bettering James Hatch’s previous State
meet record set in 2001, and is also the fastest 800
ever run in-state.
“With 100 meters left I was dying,” said Webb.
“I was so scared. I kept picturing Connor Winter
kicking by me. It was not fun until it was over.
It was all worth it, every step. I made some sacrifices, didn’t play basketball, getting in a couple
of more months of training obviously made the
difference. Every night going to bed at 9 p.m., it
was all worth it.”
The 1600 on Saturday served as the icing on his
cake. As expected, Webb took the early lead and
never yielded it, stopping the clock in 4:17.41, a
second ahead of ThunderRidge’s Kiefer Johnson.
The Fort Collins boys’ team captured their first
team title since 2006 with 74 points over Fairview
with 53. By all accounts, the stunning 1-2 finish on
Thursday in the 3200 by Griffin Hay and Jefferson
Abbey inspired the Lambkins. Pre-race favorite
Danny Carney of Dakota Ridge maintained the
lead, with the exception of about a half-lap, until
the final 200 meters. But at that critical juncture,
Carney suddenly fell off badly and Hay catapulted
ahead with Abbey also nosing past Carney a few
meters from the line.
“It was definitely a shock when I saw myself gain-
ing on Danny because he’s such a great competitor
and I just said I have to put this down,” said Hay.
“Coach (Chris) Suppes told us to stick with the
best guys, just relax for the first six laps, and then
go get it the last two.”
Those 18 points and Bozman’s 30 were almost
enough to capture the title. But the distance points
served to inspire others on the team to deliver,
including Jacob Hanks, who won the shotput with
a toss of 56-7¾”.
Loveland won its third consecutive girls title
behind its usual array of solid performances. Star
hurdler Kaylee Packham provided clutch hurdles
runs for 20 critical points. She won the 300 hurdles
as expected over a stacked field in a tight race over
Lakewood’s Haley Brogan, while Dior Hall of
George Washington was the clear favorite in the
100 hurdles. But Hall scratched from the finals,
and Packham stepped through the open door to
a second win. The title chase continued for three
days and wasn’t decided until nearly the last event.
Loveland’s 85.33 points were just enough to hold
off Cherry Creek with 79 and Lakewood with 71.5.
“Cherry Creek brought it big time, we had to
have almost a perfect weekend, and we did,” said
Indians coach Paul Quere.
The heralded Kaela Edwards of Littleton entered
the State meet with the intent of also breaking the
all-time 800 meter record, 2:07.53, from 1996. The
Lions senior probably would have benefitted from
watching Webb’s take-it-out-blazing-fast approach.
But her race was before Webb’s, and her first lap
was neither fast enough to give her a shot at the
mark, nor was it sufficient to hold off Arapahoe’s
Devan Foster, who overtook a fading Edwards 20
Montbello has a bad exchange in
the 4x200 meter relay.
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yo uth ru n n i n g
Alaina Anderson of Pomona (5)
leading Jordyn Colter (11) of Cherry
Creek in the 5A girls 3200.
meters from the finish to win in 2:10.50, .11 seconds
ahead of Edwards. Foster, just a sophomore, then
doubled by winning the 1600 title as well in 4:59.68,
three seconds ahead of Cherry Creek freshman
Jordyn Colter.
“Two weeks ago I was .08 from the State record
and I’ve really been pushing myself,” said a tearful
Edwards, who will run next year at Oklahoma
State. “You never know what’s going to happen. I
know I did all I could, and she (Foster) did good.”
The other standout in the 5A girls was Pine Creek
freshman Alleandra Watt. She merely swept the
sprint titles, capturing the 100 in 11.79 seconds,
barely ahead of Smoky Hill’s Zainab Sanni and prerace favorite Chyna Ries of George Washington,
and romped in the 200 in 24.11 with runner-up
Sanni .78 seconds back.
Perhaps the most exciting finish of the meet
occurred the first day during the 5A girls 3200.
Pomona sophomore Alaina Anderson boldly took
the early lead, only to see that edge evaporate to
a huge pack of eight other girls. McKenna Spillar, a junior from Dakota Ridge, finally wrested
the lead from Anderson down the final stretch,
but Anderson made a last-gasp dive at the finish
that saw her chest cross the white line just .01 of a
second later than Spillar, whose winning time was
11:00.85. Amazingly, nine girls finished within
three seconds of the top spot.
The team races in 4A might have been the most
compelling ones of the State meet. The decider
on the boys’ side improbably came down to the
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rain-delayed pole vault on Saturday. Longmont
prevailed after vaulters Steven Wacker and Derek
Wing cleared 15’0” to finish 1-3, and the resulting
17 points shot their team past Northern League rival
Broomfield, 72.5 to 67. Hurdlers and field event
athletes were the stars of the 4A boys competition,
as Thompson Valley’s Josh Mielke dominated the
300 hurdles field with a 37.94 clocking, while Longmont picked up more critical points with Braden
Hitchcock and Josh Cogdill finishing right behind.
Versatile jumper Tony Carodine of Widefield broke
the 4A State meet mark in the triple jump with a
leap of 49’8¾”, and was also first in the long jump
at 23’1½” and second in the high jump at 6’5”.
Thompson Valley’s Gus Waneka held a seemingly
comfortable 10-meter lead halfway through the 4A
boys 3200. Suddenly, Centaurus’ Chandler Reid
shot up to Waneka, who responded with a surge of
his own to hold off the impertinent challenge. But
this took its toll on Waneka, who was then caught
with 800 meters left by Broomfield’s Ben Forsee and
Windsor’s Justin Weinmeister. Just as it appeared
the Forsee would have enough to pass Waneka,
the Eagles’ senior found another gear to pull away
to win in 9:36.86 with Forsee second in 9:39.37.
“I tried to run a similar race at conference and
I got reeled in by (Niwot’s) Nick Harris, so I tried
to be more aggressive laps four, five, and six,” said
Waneka, who will run next year for CSU. “I’m real
happy that the push in the middle of the race was
enough. It’s scary to be out front.”
Harris won a see-saw race in the 4A boys 1600.
Lara led in the second lap only to yield to Harris,
who dueled Broomfield’s Joe Mitchem, eventually
pulling away to a 4:18.79 win.
Thompson Valley won another girls 4A title,
fending off Pueblo South. The always-reliable
Karina Ernst closed out her high school career
with a virtually unchallenged repeat win in the
1600 in a PR of 4:54.89, although she had her
heart set on nabbing the State record, which she
missed by just .3 of a second. She took control of
the race early and easily pulled away from junior
Heather Bates of Discovery Canyon, more than five
seconds back. Ernst also PR’d to the 800 title in
2:10.36 after blitzing the field with her 62-second
initial lap and winning by six seconds. Her third
title came running the second leg of the Eagles’
4x400 meter relay.
“I’ve been gunning for the 800 the past three
years, so I finally have it, and I’m relishing it,” said
Ernst, who will run cross country and track next
year at Syracuse.
Bates had earlier won an exciting 3200 meter
duel with Denver South’s Sydney Scott. The West
Virginia-bound Scott led for the first mile, and
the two traded off places for the next two laps.
Bates pulled ahead with 800 meters to go, only to
see Scott pull alongside a lap later, displaying to
spectators their obvious contrast in styles: Bates’
long blonde hair accentuating her lankier strides,
while the shorter Scott’s shoulders swayed and her
arms thrashed furiously. Scott’s challenge would
be her last hurrah as Bates thundered ahead to
seize a 30-meter advantage by the finish in a time
of 10:55.20.
A pair of Eagles, Valor Christian’s MaryBeth
Sant and Broomfield’s Harrison Einspahr stole the
show in the 4A sprints, with each sweeping the 100
and 200 meter titles, with Sant adding another first
as part of Valor’s 4x200 meter relay.
Track fans got to witness some jaw-dropping
dominance by several 3A performers that re-wrote
the record books. Alex Mead of Mead (yes, he is
a descendent of the Longmont-area town’s original settlers) totally dominated the sprints. His
runaway-from-the-field 10.62 during the nastiest,
rainiest part of the morning simply broke the 3A
state meet record by .36 seconds. The 21.66 he
ran in the 200 a few hours later lopped .31 seconds
off of that record. In both finals, Troy Johnson of
Berthoud was the runner-up. For good measure,
Mead anchored his school’s 4x100 meter relay that
dropped that record by .24 seconds.
But Mead’s exploits may have been exceeded by
those of Cedaredge’s Sierra Williams. No other
sprinter was close to her at the finish line of any of
her events. In the similarly soggy 100, the Florida
State-bound Williams posted an 11.82, well below
the previous record 12.07 set by Dimma Kalu in
2004. Williams smashed another Kalu record in
the 200, jetting to a 24.13, a whopping .41 seconds
faster, and 1.37 seconds ahead of her nearest pursuer.
With prelims and finals in all of the sprints, the extraordinarily busy Williams also helped her team to
record-setting wins in the 4x100 and 4x200 relays,
the first by .54 seconds, the latter by an impressive
1.54 seconds.
Faith Christian’s Evan Fortney was the favorite
in all of the 3A boys’ distance events, and he did not
Photography By bill stahl
disappoint. In his usual style of grabbing the early
lead, Fortney seized control of the 3200 and won
easily in 9:48.43. A late charge by Adam Avischious
of The Classical Academy made the finish of the
800 a bit more interesting, but the Eagles’ senior
held him off for the victory in 1:57.74. The Air
Force Academy-bound Fortney had a more scary
challenge in the home stretch of the 1600 from
Carlos Brinkmann of Pagosa Springs, who closed
quickly but was just .02 seconds short as Fortney
scored another crown in 4:26.76. Sam Little of
Middle Park was quite dominant in winning 110
meter high hurdles in 14.50 seconds, .71 ahead of
the runner-up, and the 300 meter intermediate
hurdles in 39.31, a half-second in front.
The Classical Academy boys returned to the top
of the state rankings with a 106 to 75 points edge
over defending champ Rifle. The Titans collected
almost all the points they needed from Nathan
Weeks winning the 400 meters, a third-place finish
in the 4x400 meter relay, and Avischious, Conner
Wilburn, Nathan Wilson, Clark Mourning, and
Joshua George, who amassed 56 points together in
the three distance events and the 4x800 meter relay.
The Classical Academy leveraged some recordsetting of their own to power to another 3A girls
kirk webb of monarch sets a new
state record of 1:51.75 in the 5a 800.
Kaela Edwards of Littleton in the
front of the 5A girls 800 ahead of
eventual winner Devan Foster of
Arapahoe and Olivia Anderson of
Cherry Creek.
title after a one-year absence from the top spot with
137 points to Eaton’s 95. The Titans’ sprint medley
relay started things off, barely breaking a mark set
by a Kalu-anchored University team, in 1:48.25. A
few minutes later, the TCA 4x800 meter relay took
down its own school’s four-year old record by more
than four seconds in 9:24.95. TCA got some big
points from Alexa Chacon, a Junior All-America
heptathlete. The Titans junior triumphed in an
exciting 300 meter hurdles final for the second
consecutive year as rival Ryleigh Haynes of Eaton crashed to the track after clobbering the final
hurdle. She also won the 100 meter hurdles final,
and erased the 20-year old 3A state meet record in
the preliminary round with a time of 14.88. As
usual, the TCA distance crew helped the Colorado
Springs-based school to pile on the points. Senior
Regan Mullen had a wire-to-wire win in the 1600
in 5:05.67 to go along with runner-up finishes in
the 3200 and 800. In the 3200, teammate Shelby
Stableford closed out a stellar high school career
with a victory followed by a runner-up finish to
Mullen in the 1600.
Perhaps the best overall team effort at the State
meet belonged to Lyons, which swept both the 2A
boys and girls titles for the second year in a row with
a great mix of top-notch performances. The boys
tallied 101.5 points, well ahead of Telluride’s 64,
behind wins in the 4x200 and 4x400 meter relays
and by Matt Radich in the 110 meter hurdles and
Forrest Donnell in the long jump. The Lyons girls
had a narrower margin, racking up 86.5 points to
edge out Telluride with 76 and Akron with 73.
The gutty Ty Williams, a multiple State winner,
zoomed ahead of the field in the 2A boys 3200,
holding a 100 meter lead halfway into the race, and
coasting to an easy win in 9:59.18 despite battling a
nasty virus. “It’s tough to get out there and grind
it when it was so hard to breathe,” said the Miners’
senior, who will attend Kansas next year.
But the bug clobbered Williams for next day’s
800, and the senior fell to seventh. Some Mucinex,
an ice bath, and rest that night restored his energy
enough to finish his high school career on a high
note, a dominating victory by more than eight seconds in the 1600 in 4:27.92.
There was considerable drama in the 2A girls’
distance events, featuring the new versus the old.
Veteran Kelley Robinson of Nederland and freshman sensation Tabor Scholl of West Grand separated well ahead of the other runners by the third
lap of the 3200. Robinson took the lead in the sixth
lap and ultimately held off Scholl by less than one
second in 11:19.86. The already well-accomplished
Scholl showed that she is a quick learner by putting
the 800 away early the next day with a 68-second
first lap and crossing the line in front by 10 meters
in 2:16.17.
Scholl and Robinson hooked up again in the
1600, and this time it was the younger girl giving
a lesson to the senior, pulling ahead with 300 meters to go, and her 5:02.91 barely missed the meet
record from 1990.
After this amazing season, CHSAA had better
consider only using pencil to re-write entries in its
record books.
Bill Stahl is a free agent high school cross country
and track coach looking for a new position. He also
owns a youth sports business called i9 Sports.
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BolderBoulder 10K Celebrates 34 Years
nuta olaru (l) and kristen
fryburg-zaitz battle for the
female title while logan martin
tries to hold them off.
More than 50,000 runners packed the
streets of Boulder for the 34th annual BolderBOULDER 10K to celebrate Memorial
Day. As usual, the mix of once-a-year runners,
recreational runners, speedsters and the elites
made for an exciting day at Folsom Field.
Furthermore, chilly temperatures in the morning followed by a beautiful day in the foothills
set the stage for fast times and even more fun
festivities.
One of the highlights of the day was the
U.S. women’s team second place overall finish
in the International Team Challenge. Second
and third place finishers Janet CherobonBawcom and Olympic bronze medalist Deena
Kastor set the stage for remaining U.S. women
to finish ten points behind Ethiopia.
The men’s U.S. team finished in fourth with
36 points, just in front of Team Colorado, who
finished with 39 points. Team Ethiopia took
top honors in the men’s International Team
Challenge.
Allan Kiprono from Kenya, who finished
third at the 2011 BolderBOULDER, won
this year’s men’s individual elite race in 29:53.
Second and third place finishers Tades Tola and
Brihanu Gedefa, both from Ethiopia, finished
in 30:02 and 30:05, respectively. The first
Americans to cross the finish line in the men’s
individual elite race were former Adams State
College standout Aaron Braun, who finished
in 30:09 for Team USA and Boulder resident
Kenyon Neuman who crossed the line in 30:35
for Team Colorado.
In the women’s individual elite race, Ethiopian Mamitu Daska took the win in 33:05,
with USA team members Janet CherobonBawcom and Deena Kastor finishing second
and third in 33:22 and 33:27, respectively.
Team Colorado’s Adrianna Nelson came in
ninth with a time of 34:54, while teammate
Wendy Thomas finished up twenty-first in
36:12.
In the citizen’s race, Josh Eberly from Gunnison took the win in a time of 31:10. Eberly,
who has qualified for four U.S. world championship teams and competed in the Olympic marathon trials last January, is a former
standout at Arvada West High School and was
a nine-time All-American and national champion in the 10,000 meters at Western State
College. Curtis Begley Jr. of Boulder came
in just seven seconds behind Eberly, finishing
second in 31:17.
Romania native, Longmont resident and
now US citizen Nuta Olaru came out on top in
the women’s citizen’s race in 35:07. Coming in
a second behind Olaru was Broomfield’s Kristen Fyburg-Zaitz in 35:08. Brianne Nelson of
Fort Collins rounded out the top three with a
finishing time of 35:43.
See results on page 40.
Course Records Smashed at Greenland Races
skyla bosco of denver enjoys the
beauty of the greenland trail
during the 8 mile.
Heat advisories were posted for the day of
the 8th annual Greenland Trail Races, but that
didn’t seem to affect the elite field. Out of all
the distances: the 8M, the 25K and the 50K, all
but one course record was broken.
Almost 800 participants came out to the
Greenland Open Space to take on a fast, albeit
somewhat challenging course. Runners took
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advantage of the cool temperatures at the start,
but the trails warmed up fast. Colorado Runner Events took extra precautions by stocking
aid stations with extra water, Heed and supplements to help runners through the heat.
In the men’s 8 Mile, 49-year old course record holder Andy Ames took the win in 49:03.
In the women’s race, Kim Dobson dominated
the trails and finished up first for the women
and third place overall with a course record
time of 51:35. Second place female finisher
Stacey Chamberlain finished in 53:14, also under the old course record and good for fourth
overall.
In the men’s 25K race, 23-year-old Daniel
Kraft took the win in a blistering time of
1:34:18, a new course record. Second and third
place finishers Jim Rebenack and John Nichols
finished in 1:37:44 and 1:43:07, respectively.
Heather Utrata came out on top in the women’s
25K, finishing in a course record 1:45:45, good
for fourth place overall. Second place Kris
Klotzbach finished almost ten minutes behind
Utrata, in a time of 1:54:15. Nicole Chyr
rounded out the top three with a third place
finishing time of 1:55:48.
The results of the highly-anticipated
Greenland 50K did not disappoint. In the
men’s race, Peter Maksimow tore up the course
and finished in a ridiculous time of 3:22:09,
bettering the old course record by over a
minute. Bill Fanselow, 45, finished second, over
twenty minutes behind Maksimow, in a time of
3:42:37. Coming in third was Denver’s Craig
Schmidt with a time of 3:45:50. Finishing
fourth overall and first for the women in the
50K race was Kerrie Bruxvoort with a crazyfast course record time of 3:51:25. Stephanie
Jones, 41, finished second, over thirty minutes
behind Bruxvoort, with a time of 4:34:51.
Close behind her was 43-year-old third place
finisher Jennifer Cubillas, crossing the line in
4:35:29.
See results on page 37.
-Amanda Hodges
Colfax Races Attract More
than 8,000 Runners
A beautiful, sunny morning greeted runners
for the start of the Kaiser Permanente Colfax
Marathon, Half Marathon, Marathon Relay
and 10 Miler on May 13. With temperatures
hovering in the comfortable 50s, race participants were treated to pristine conditions that
lead to record times and over 8,400 finishers.
In the men’s marathon, Boulder’s Trent
Briney broke the Colfax Marathon record in a
time of 2:30:25, claiming a $1,000 prize bonus.
The women’s marathon was won for a second
year in a row by Nicole Chyr. She failed to
break her course record but was happy with a
3:07:46 finishing time, since it was her sixth
competitive marathon in 12 months.
Patrick Rizzo of Boulder broke the half
marathon men’s record in a time of 1:08:09.
Rizzo finished 12th at the marathon Olympic
Trials in January. Brianne Nelson of Fort Collins claimed the women’s half marathon and
course record in a time of 1:17:04.
The new Urban 10 Mile finish was quite
a sight, as top female finisher Brandy Erholtz
took the women’s title and overall 10 Mile race
title as well in 1:02:45.
The race course highlighted downtown
Denver, as well as scenic parks, like Sloan’s
Lake, and city landmarks, such as Sports Authority Field at Mile High Stadium. Runners
relaxed at Denver’s City Park after the race
while enjoying a festive post-race party.
Colorado Colfax Marathon
May 20, 2012
Boulder, CO
6,376 Finishers (26.2M - 1,169, 13.1M - 3,866, 10M - 419, 5K - 922)
- Timing by: Hallucination Sports - Elevation: Start/Finish = 5,280’
- Course Records: 26.2M = Nicholas Mockeridge, 2:34:27 (2011);
Nicole Chyr, 2:59:01 (2011); 13.1M = Andrew Smith, 1:10:43 (2009);
Rebecca Prichard, 1:23:09 (2010) ; 5K = Eric Garber, 18:22 (2011);
Rachel Gioscia-Ryan, 18:00 (2011); 10M = New Race
26.2M Overall Male: 1. Trent Briney, 33, Boulder, CO, 2:30:35
CR; 2. Peter Vail, 37, Denver, CO, 2:36:40; 3. Tristan Mitchell,
26, Centennial, CO, 2:37:30; 4. Brooks Williams, 29, Colorado
Springs, CO, 2:50:02; 5. Denis Newman, 42, Denver, CO,
2:52:14. Masters (40+): 1. Denis Newman, 42, Denver, CO,
2:52:14; 2. Rafael Pacheco, 46, Westminster, CO, 2:58:13; 3.
Paul Landry, 41, Golden, CO, 2:58:19. Grand Masters (50+):
1. Chris Glatt, 54, Overland Park, KS, 3:10:30; 2. Jay Survil, 53,
Aurora, CO, 3:10:47; 3. John Weiner, 50, Osceola, PA, 3:14:43.
Seniors (60+): 1. Gary Clark, 60, Loveland, CO, 3:41:50; 2.
Jim Bosik, 62, Evergreen, CO, 3:59:41; 3. Bill Botinelly, 62,
Fort Collins, CO, 4:03:27. Overall Female: 1. Nicole Chyr, 34,
Englewood, CO, 3:07:42; 2. Joanna Masloski, 34, Highlands
Ranch, CO, 3:14:24; 3. Alexandra Harpp, 27, Lakewood, CO,
3:15:11; 4. Janet Rooney, 48, Louisville, CO, 3:15:33; 5.
Beth Otto, 47, Parker, CO, 3:16:15. Masters (40+): 1. Janet
Rooney, 48, Louisville, CO, 3:15:33; 2. Beth Otto, 47, Parker,
CO, 3:16:15; 3. Karen Voss, 46, Denver, CO, 3:16:36. Grand
Masters (50+): 1. Rachael St. Claire, 54, Denver, CO, 3:48:33;
2. Thalena Boyd, 52, Littleton, CO, 3:57:36; 3. Jo Rabbers, 54,
Arlington, TX, 4:00:56. Seniors (60+): 1. Rae Mohrmann, 64,
St. Louis, MO, 4:15:28; 2. Joanne Harms, 60, Fort Collins, CO,
4:26:52; 3. Shelby Griffin, 62, Roswell, NM, 4:38:03.
13.1M Overall Male: 1. Patrick Rizzo, 28, Boulder, CO, 1:08:08
CR; 2. Chas Davis, 29, Omaha, NE, 1:13:40; 3. Bob Weiner,
47, Evergreen, CO, 1:14:01; 4. Chris Chorney, 22, USAF
Academy, CO, 1:18:35; 5. Alehandro Jimenez, 24, 1:19:31.
Masters (40+): 1. Bob Weiner, 47, Evergreen, CO, 1:14:01;
2. Matt Tartar, 41, Denver, CO, 1:22:13; 3. Richard Williams,
43, Denver, CO, 1:25:40. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Dan
Spale, 56, Lakewood, CO, 1:21:11; 2. Andrew Loizeaux, 51,
Denver, CO, 1:24:30; 3. Terry Nugent, 50, Highlands Ranch,
CO, 1:27:01. Seniors (60+): 1. Harry Ladewig, 61, Englewood,
CO, 1:36:10; 2. Buzz Allen, 62, Centennial, CO, 1:36:24; 3.
Sverre Froyen, 60, Lakewood, CO, 1:44:57. Overall Female: 1.
Brianne Nelson, 31, Fort Collins, CO, 1:17:03 CR; 2. Heather
Utrata, 30, Englewood, CO, 1:19:04; 3. Katie Bagley, 25,
Glenwood Springs, CO, 1:23:41; 4. Courtney Olsen, 24,
Boulder, CO, 1:25:17; 5. Jamie Arnold, 27, Westminster, CO,
1:26:06. Masters (40+): 1. Sandra Dalles, 40, Aurora, CO,
1:29:51; 2. Sydney Cornell, 42, Parker, CO, 1:32:59; 3. Sabine
Preisinger, 43, Bailey, CO, 1:33:51. Grand Masters (50+): 1.
Peggy Panzer, 50, Aurora, CO, 1:40:11; 2. Beth Brady, 55,
Englewood, CO, 1:42:15; 3. Kathy Jankowski, 54, Thornton,
CO, 1:43:42. Seniors (60+): 1. Laurie Hakala, 60, 1:56:48; 2.
Sandra Castro, 61, 2:06:08; 3. Grace Dyck, 70, 2:10:50.
10M Overall Male: 1. Andrew Newland, 33, Denver, CO,
1:08:18 CR; 2. Bruce Downs, 40, Colorado Springs, CO,
1:09:16; 3. Benjamin Weihrauch, 32, Denver, CO, 1:10:02;
4. Michael Collyer, 40, Louisville, CO, 1:12:14; 5. Jordi Betts,
33, Denver, CO, 1:12:58. Masters (40+): 1. Bruce Downs,
40, Colorado Springs, CO, 1:09:16; 2. Michael Collyer, 40,
Louisville, CO, 1:12:14; 3. Kevin Bommer, 41, Westminster,
CO, 1:18:50. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Peter Sachs, 55,
Denver, CO, 1:18:37; 2. Terrence Jones, 56, Franktown, CO,
1:24:14; 3. Philip Pilgrim, 53, Arvada, CO, 1:36:53. Seniors
(60+): 1. Jance Jancin, 62, Fort Collins, CO, 1:20:25; 2. Rick
Tingley, 65, Roswell, NM, 1:34:47; 3. Jeffrey Ploen, 62,
Centennial, CO, 1:38:50. Overall Female: 1. Brandy Erholtz,
34, Evergreen, CO, 1:02:45 CR; 2. Cara Snyder, 36, Denver,
CO, 1:09:29; 3. Barbarann, 53, Littleton, CO, 1:13:52; 4.
Gina Sanger, 42, Aurora, CO, 1:14:48; 5. Erin Lafferty, 35,
Wheat Ridge, CO, 1:15:03. Masters (40+): 1. Gina Sanger,
trent briney wins the colfax
marathon with a course record
time of 2:30:35
42, Aurora, CO, 1:14:48; 2. Rachel Dehner, 42, Denver, CO,
1:16:57; 3. Susie Wargin, 41, Lone Tree, CO, 1:18:50. Grand
Masters (50+): 1. Barbarann, 53, Littleton, CO, 1:13:52; 2.
Deb Cunningham, 50, 1:16:47; 3. Jennifer Ellis, 51, Denver,
CO, 1:24:04. Seniors (60+): 1. Gail Ploen, 61, Centennial, CO,
1:33:29; 2. Linda Smith, 60, Greenwood Village, CO, 1:37:42;
3. Patricia Kinkel, 62, Denver, CO, 1:38:02.
5K Overall Male: 1. Edward Legrice, 35, Denver, CO,
17:47 CR; 2. Jeremy Thompson, 29, Denver, CO, 17:51; 3.
Constantino Rago, 26, Denver, CO, 18:02; 4. Rain Anderson,
24, Broomfield, CO, 18:50; 5. Nick Cramer, 27, Laramie, WY,
19:03. Masters (40+): 1. Refugio Garcia, 47, Denver, CO,
20:17; 2. David Mellor, 41, 21:29; 3. David Dougherty, 47,
Denver, CO, 22:20. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Dan Valerio, 52,
Denver, CO, 20:07; 2. Phil Leece, 55, Denver, CO, 23:52; 3.
Jay Trujillo, 53, 26:11. Seniors (60+): 1. JJ Keegan, 64, Castle
Rock, CO, 28:31; 2. Larry Nutsch, 62, Highlands Ranch,
CO, 29:27; 3. Tom Betts, 71, Bettendorf, IA, 29:45. Overall
Female: 1. Katherine Green, 33, Denver, CO, 20:58; 2.
Heather Crosby, 38, Parker, CO, 21:14; 3. Lianna Ubungen, 12,
El Paso, TX, 22:49; 4. Kelly Hronick, 34, Littleton, CO, 22:51;
5. Laura Evans, 33, Denver, CO, 23:09. Masters (40+): 1. Erin
Dunn, 41, Denver, CO, 24:45; 2. Debbie Marden, 44, Boulder,
CO, 25:15; 3. Lori Drew, 46, Cherry Hills, CO, 25:19. Grand
Masters (50+): 1. Vickie Sellars, 50, Westminster, CO, 25:52;
2. Susan Rome, 58, Denver, CO, 26:34; 3. Conni Lewis, 57,
Littleton, CO, 27:39. Seniors (60+): 1. Constance Ahrserbrek,
72, Lakewood, CO, 27:15; 2. Karen Ryan, 62, 31:33; 3. Cindy
Vogels, 60, Greenwood Village, CO, 31:40.
50K and 10K Trail Runs
september 22, 2012
sundance, wy
Aimee Youngblood on her way to
a 2:44:24 finish in the greenland
trail 25K.
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www.sundancetrailrun.com
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36, 18:22; 3. Eric Schwartz, 41, 18:26; 4. Justin Mock, 30,
19:25; 5. Ben Zeiger, 29, 19:50. Masters (40+): 1. Andy
Ames, 49, 18:05; 2. Eric Schwartz, 41, 18:26; 3. Lee Wood,
44, 22:43. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Andrew Goldstein, 56,
25:50; 2. Marlin Buse, 54, 28:51; 3. Jeff Dahoda, 54, 31:31.
Seniors (60+): 1. David Tomasula, 65, 28:58; 2. Don Tuchband,
64, 30:22; 3. Jay Goldstein, 66, 31:40. Overall Female: 1.
Laura Bruess, 51, 21:14; 2. Hailey Leader, 11, 22:06; 3. Annie
Weber, 22, 22:37; 4. Brandi Bond, 35, 22:55; 5. Georgia
Weeks, 9, 23:37. Masters (40+): 1. Elaine Powell, 42, 24:33;
2. Malinda Fishman, 48, 25:46; 3. Ali Tuchband, 40, 25:49.
Grand Masters (50+): 1. Laura Bruess, 51, 21:14; 2. Jackie
Nelson, 51, 24:34; 3. Jen Hardy, 50, 24:41. Seniors (60+): 1.
Tina Albert, 61, 24:30; 2. Jan Vermilye, 62, 28:27; 3. Diane
Ridgway, 63, 29:17.
25:48. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Laura Bruess, 51, Boulder,
CO, 20:34; 2. Lynne Bentley, 58, Boulder, CO, 26:58; 3. Kathy
Collins, 56, Estes Park, CO, 27:28. Seniors (60+): 1. Jane
Spaulding, 63, Longmont, CO, 33:00; 2. Junita Johannes, 62,
Platteville, CO, 38:17; 3. Carole Litt, 75, Longmont, CO, 38:49.
Greenland Trail Races
May 5, 2012
Larkspur, CO
771 Finishers (50K - 138, 25K - 256, 8M - 373) - Timing by: Boulder
Road Runners - Elevation: Start/Finish = 6,850’ - Course Records:
50K = Justin Ricks, 3:23:11 (2008); Melanie Fryer, 4:03:33 (2011); 25K
= Jason Schlarb, 1:36:16 (2010); Stevie Kremer, 1:48:43 (2011); 8M =
Andy Ames, 46:33 (2006); Gina Lucrezi, 53:19 (2009)
Earth Day 5K
April 22, 2012
Boulder, CO
50K Overall Male: 1. Peter Maksimow, 33, Manitou Springs,
CO, 3:22:09 CR; 2. Bill Fanselow, 45, Golden, CO, 3:42:37; 3.
Craig Schmidt, 28, Denver, CO, 3:45:50; 4. Brad Poppele, 41,
Colorado Springs, CO, 3:58:03; 5. Jason Romero, 42, Denver,
CO, 4:01:10. Masters (40+): 1. Bill Fanselow, 45, Golden, CO,
3:42:37; 2. Brad Poppele, 41, Colorado Springs, CO, 3:58:03;
3. Jason Romero, 42, Denver, CO, 4:01:10. Grand Masters
(50+): 1. Robert Bawn, 50, Boulder, CO, 4:30:01; 2. David
Selden, 52, Lyons, CO, 4:50:48; 3. Kevin Berg, 55, Littleton,
CO, 4:51:49. Seniors (60+): 1. Wayne Cousineau, 61,
Superior, CO, 6:29:38; 2. Steve Hughes, 63, Little Rock, AR,
6:51:55; 3. John Hobbs, 66, Evergreen, CO, 7:04:34. Overall
Female: 1. Kerrie Bruxvoort, 35, Broomfield, CO, 3:51:27 CR;
2. Stephanie Jones, 41, Colorado Springs, CO, 4:34:51; 3.
Jennifer Cubillas, 43, Louisville, CO, 4:35:29; 4. Julie Linman,
25, Boulder, CO, 4:41:39; 5. Dina Griffin, 42, Jamestown, CO,
4:54:13. Masters (40+): 1. Stephanie Jones, 41, Colorado
Springs, CO, 4:34:51; 2. Jennifer Cubillas, 43, Louisville, CO,
4:35:29; 3. Dina Griffin, 42, Jamestown, CO, 4:54:13. Grand
Masters (50+): 1. L Bollen, 51, Aurora, CO, 6:27:19; 2. Ulla
Westermann, 50, Louisville, CO, 6:41:46.
25K Overall Male: 1. Daniel Kraft, 23, Grand Junction, 1:34:38
646 Finishers - Timing by: Boulder Road Runners - Elevation: Start/
Finish = 5,260’ - Course Records: unknown
Lori walker sets a course record
of 18:20 at the mother’s day 5K.
Platte River Half Marathon
April 15, 2012
Littleton, CO
2,415 Finishers - Timing by: Boulder Road Runners - Elevation: Start
= 5,335’, Finish = 5,252’ - Course Records: Jason Delaney, 1:08:48
(2009); Anna Pichrtova, 1:16:02 (2005)
Overall Male: 1. Russel Stein, 39, Denver, CO, 1:12:52; 2.
Aaron Carrizales, 34, Gering, NE, 1:15:05; 3. Tristan Mitchell,
26, Centennial, CO, 1:15:46; 4. Logan Martin, 28, Denver, CO,
1:17:31; 5. Tyler Sewald, 30, Greeley, CO, 1:18:49. Masters
(40+): 1. Chuck Radford, 40, Castle Rock, CO, 1:22:30; 2.
Carl Mather, 47, Littleton, CO, 1:24:40; 3. Scott Dailey, 46,
Centennial, CO, 1:25:32. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Bob
Vanlangenhoven, 50, Fort Collins, CO, 1:24:51; 2. Dan Spale,
55, Lakewood, CO, 1:26:33; 3. Jay Survil, 53, Aurora, CO,
1:27:14. Seniors (60+): 1. Nicholas Fickling, 61, Edwards,
CO, 1:36:18; 2. Lee Oly, 61, Colorado Springs, CO, 1:38:57;
3. Ed Terrell, 61, Boulder, CO, 1:39:39. Overall Female: 1.
Kim Dobson, 27, Denver, CO, 1:21:51; 2. Heather Utrata,
30, Englewood, CO, 1:22:12; 3. Sarah Rebick, 37, Boulder,
CO, 1:24:43; 4. Annie Howley, 29, Boulder, CO, 1:25:59; 5.
Sarah Pizzo, 29, Denver, CO, 1:26:19. Masters (40+): 1. Janet
Rooney, 48, Louisville, CO, 1:30:46; 2. Kristi Anderson, 48,
Longmont, CO, 1:30:49; 3. Andrea Espinosa, 49, Littleton,
CO, 1:31:34. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Ellen Hart, 53, Denver,
CO, 1:27:42; 2. Sharon Kolarik, 53, Littleton, CO, 1:40:32; 3.
Peggy Panzer, 50, Aurora, CO, 1:43:51. Seniors (60+): 1. Carol
Kinzy, 64, Pueblo, CO, 1:48:11; 2. Diane Ridgway, 63, Arvada,
CO, 1:50:58; 3. Joanne Harms, 60, Fort Collins, CO, 2:03:39.
Canine Classic 5K
April 22, 2012
Boulder, CO
Overall Male: 1. Andy Ames, 49, 18:05; 2. Juan Rodriguez,
July/August 2012
Overall Male: 1. Trent Briney, 33, Boulder, CO, 15:27; 2.
Ewen North, 33, Louisville, CO, 16:21; 3. Brian Stillwell, 23,
Boulder, CO, 16:23; 4. Paytan Batliner, 28, Denver, CO, 16:53;
5. Matt Batliner, 23, Boulder, CO, 16:57. Masters (40+): 1.
Scott Fliegelman, 44, Boulder, CO, 18:18; 2. Scott King, 49,
Longmont, CO, 18:56; 3. Paul Hooge, 48, Boulder, CO, 19:02.
Grand Masters (50+): 1. Dean Maruna, 52, Erie, CO, 18:12;
2. Thomas Carr, 54, Boulder, CO, 20:09; 3. Jeffrey Rheiner,
56, Boulder, CO, 20:34. Seniors (60+): 1. Jim Reynolds,
63, Lafayette, CO, 20:56; 2. Jeff Dumas, 66, Boulder, CO,
22:08; 3. Siri Jadha Krasla, 61, Boulder, CO, 22:14. Overall
Female: 1. Amanda McCracken, 34, Boulder, CO, 18:43; 2.
Sara Tarkington, 31, Boulder, CO, 19:25; 3. Jen Brandon, 34,
Boulder, CO, 19:52; 4. Tara Wilkins, 34, Boulder, CO, 20:11;
5. Kelly Reed, 37, Boulder, CO, 21:16. Masters (40+): 1.
Jennifer Ward, 43, Boulder, CO, 21:39; 2. Genevieve Jacobi,
46, Boulder, CO, 23:44; 3. Liz Ammon, 43, Boulder, CO, 24:11.
Grand Masters (50+): 1. Vicki Hunter, 51, Boulder, CO, 22:30;
2. Mary Coffin, 52, Lafayette, CO, 26:53; 3. Debra Nastaj,
50, Boulder, CO, 27:16. Seniors (60+): 1. Betty Valent, 72,
Boulder, CO, 28:32; 2. Sandi Wiebe, 62, Boulder, CO, 28:40;
3. Cindy Maynard, 62, Longmont, CO, 29:29.
Boulder Distance Classic
April 28, 2012
Boulder, CO
528 Finishers (15K - 212, 5K - 316) - Timing by: Boulder Road
Runners - Elevation: Start/Finish = 5,260’ - Course Records: 15K =
Clint Wells, 48:47 (2008); Luminita Talpos, 54:37 (2005); 5K = Greg
Reindl, 15:33 (2010); Emma Keenan, 17:46 (2011)
15K Overall Male: 1. Maria Macias, 30, Alamosa, CO, 48:35
CR; 2. Clint Wells, 36, Louisville, CO, 49:45; 3. Trent Briney, 33,
Boulder, CO, 51:11; 4. Russell Stein, 39, Denver, CO, 51:49;
5. Bob Weiner, 47, Evergreen, CO, 52:26. Masters (40+): 1.
Bob Weiner, 47, Evergreen, CO, 52:26; 2. Kevin Konczak, 41,
Boulder, CO, 55:16; 3. Andy Ames, 49, Boulder, CO, 56:23.
Grand Masters (50+): 1. Steven Sellars, 51, Superior, CO,
1:04:03; 2. Michael Kane, 52, Dillon, CO, 1:04:53; 3. Thomas
Denning, 50, Superior, CO, 1:07:01. Seniors (60+): 1. Dave
Dooley, 65, Erie, CO, 1:05:55; 2. Don Orr, 60, Boulder, CO,
1:11:18; 3. Jeff Dumas, 66, Boulder, CO, 1:11:23. Overall
Female: 1. Colleen De Reuck, 48, Boulder, CO, 57:19; 2.
Kathy Butler, 38, Nederland, CO, 58:29; 3. Linnabah Snyder,
31, Denver, CO, 59:36; 4. Stacey Chamberlain, 40, Boulder,
CO, 1:00:25; 5. Erika Galer, 22, Boulder, Colorado, 1:01:53.
Masters (40+): 1. Colleen De Reuck, 48, Boulder, CO, 57:19;
2. Stacey Chamberlain, 40, Boulder, CO, 1:00:25; 3. Martha
Tenorio, 45, Boulder, CO, 1:02:19. Grand Masters (50+): 1.
Teresa Rider, 53, Boulder, CO, 1:05:54; 2. Diane Thompson,
54, Boulder, CO, 1:14:43; 3. Anita Shower, 52, Colorado
Springs, CO, 1:17:48. Seniors (60+): 1. Paula Vaughan, 60,
Boulder, CO, 1:25:46; 2. Virginia Landes, 62, Lafayette, CO,
1:27:09; 3. Teresa Huck, 63, Lyons, CO, 1:29:41.
5K Overall Male: 1. Curtis Begley, 24, Boulder, CO, 15:38;
2. Adam Rich, 31, 15:43; 3. Patrick Hunt, 33, Longmont, CO,
15:59; 4. Simon Gutierrez, 46, Colorado Springs, CO, 16:08;
5. Eddie Venegas, 34, Alamosa, CO, 16:22. Masters (40+): 1.
Simon Gutierrez, 46, Colorado Springs, CO, 16:08; 2. Stuart
Geer, 44, Boulder, CO, 18:17; 3. Steven Kohuth, 46, Superior,
18:32. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Dan Valerio, 51, Denver,
CR; 2. Jim Rebenack, 27, Denver, CO, 1:37:44; 3. John Nichols,
29, Highlands Ranch, CO, 1:43:08; 4. Eric Greene, 32, Aurora,
CO, 1:48:09; 5. William Gray, 43, Colorado Springs, CO,
1:48:32. Masters (40+): 1. William Gray, 43, Colorado Springs,
CO, 1:48:32; 2. William Gray, 43, Colorado Springs, CO,
1:48:32; 3. Scott Daily, 46, Centennial, CO, 1:49:07. Grand
Masters (50+): 1. Steven Sellars, 51, Superior, CO, 1:53:09;
2. Bob Basse, 57, Denver, CO, 2:01:23; 3. Gregory Stock,
51, Colorado Springs, CO, 2:05:20. Seniors (60+): 1. William
Schlaupitz, 60, Monument, CO, 2:31:37; 2. Will Moody,
62, Bailey, CO, 2:33:34; 3. Ed Walsh, 63, Placerville, CA,
2:37:43. Overall Female: 1. Heather Utrata, 30, Englewood,
CO, 1:45:45 CR; 2. Kris Klotzbach, 32, Parker, CO, 1:54:15;
3. Nicole Chyr, 34, Englewood, CO, 1:55:48; 4. Alex Harpp,
26, Lakewood, CO, 1:57:09; 5. Karen Melliar-Smith, 38,
Denver, CO, 2:05:41. Masters (40+): 1. Susan Williams, 42,
Littleton, CO, 2:10:03; 2. Katie Katalin, 42, Colorado Springs,
CO, 2:15:53; 3. Carol Selner, 45, Denver, CO, 2:15:46. Grand
Masters (50+): 1. Sharon Kolarik, 53, Littleton, CO, 2:09:38; 2.
Julie Lind, 50, Castle Rock, CO, 2:22:47; 3. Amy Plummer, 53,
Estes Park, CO, 2:22:51. Seniors (60+): 1. Jenine Ebersohl,
62, Colorado Springs, CO, 3:07:54; 2. Donna Brockman, 64,
Colorado Springs, CO, 3:42:03; 3. Fransoise Carpenter, 63,
Lakewood, CO, 4:27:15.
8M Overall Male: 1. Andy Ames, 49, Boulder, CO, 49:04;
2. Matthew Flachs, 34, Fort Collins, CO, 50:17; 3. Derek
Engard, 36, Littleton, CO, 55:18; 4. Cory Rose, 24, Pueblo,
CO, 56:19; 5. Charles Trujillo, 46, Denver, CO, 57:26. Masters (40+): 1. Andy Ames, 49, Boulder, CO, 49:04; 2. Charles
Trujillo, 46, Denver, CO, 57:26; 3. Jerry Greenwald, 44, Boulder, CO, 1:00:54. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Dan Valerio, 52,
Denver, CO, 59:28; 2. Craig Dayberry, 51, Colorado Springs,
CO, 1:02:05; 3. Steve Barker, 58, Estes Park, CO, 1:02:38. Seniors (60+): 1. John Fridrich, 60, Estes Park, CO, 1:07:34; 2.
James Worsham, 61, Aurora, CO, 1:11:23; 3. Bob Wilmot, 60,
Castle Rock, CO, 1:20:41. Overall Female: 1. Kim Dobson, 27,
Denver, CO, 51:36 CR; 2. Stacey Chamberlain, 40, Boulder,
CO, 53:15; 3. Nicole Emery, 30, Casper, WY, 59:38; 4. Mary
Mihalko, 28, Littleton, CO, 1:01:55; 5. Lindsey Foss, 29, Denver, CO, 1:02:03. Masters (40+): 1. Stacey Chamberlain, 40,
Boulder, CO, 53:15; 2. Louise Kriel, 41, Colorado Springs, CO,
1:03:56; 3. Sydney Ayers, 48, Golden, CO, 1:06:13. Grand
Masters (50+): 1. Jennifer Ellis, 51, Denver, CO, 1:15:11; 2.
Priscilla Allen, 53, Centennial, CO, 1:18:03; 3. Jean Bustard,
54, Littleton, CO, 1:19:47. Seniors (60+): 1. Carol Gross,
60, Elbert, CO, 1:32:40; 2. Caroline Ryman, 73, Divide, CO,
2:00:11; 3. Mary Mentek, 63, Colorado Springs, CO, 2:14:42.
Colorado Marathon
May 6, 2012
Fort Collins, CO
3,069 Finishers (26.2M - 996, 13.1M - 1,315, 10K - 566, 5K - 192) Timing by: Timberline Timing - Elevation: Marathon Start = 6,090’,
Half Marathon Start = 5,400’, Finish = 4,950’ - Course Records:
26.2M = Daniel Shaw, 2:25:55 (2004); Kara Roy, 2:46:30 (2007); 13.1M
= Michael Chavez, 1:07:43 (2011); Adriana Pirtea, 1:15:40 (2010); 10K
= Philip Latter, 33:33 (2010); Lyndsi Benedict, 36:50 (2006); 5K = Marc
Lonac, 16:25 (2010); Jinny Mortenson, 21:41 (2011)
26.2M Overall Male: 1. Ryan Donovan, 29, Fort Collins, CO,
2:32:34; 2. Chuck Radford, 40, Castle Rock, CO, 2:42:41; 3.
Michael Jackson, 37, Loveland, CO, 2:45:38; 4. M. Shannon
Price, 34, Loveland, CO, 2:46:07; 5. Luke Stephenson, 25,
Greeley, CO, 2:47:44. Masters (40+): 1. Chuck Radford, 40,
Castle Rock, CO, 2:42:41; 2. Douglas Liming, 40, Apex, NC,
2:49:21; 3. Mark Mulholland, 40, Westminster, CO, 2:52:54.
Grand Masters (50+): 1. John Koss, 52, Fort Collins, CO,
3:05:20; 2. Phil Ware, 53, Fort Collins, CO, 3:05:51; 3. Anthony
Surage, 52, Manitou Springs, CO, 3:10:55. Seniors (60+): 1.
Steve Parker, 60, Denver, CO, 3:10:47; 2. David Wilson, 61,
Cedaredge, CO, 3:30:03; 3. Corbin Hillam, 60, Colorado
Springs, CO, 4:02:46. Overall Female: 1. Ellie Keyser, 23, Fort
Collins, CO, 2:58:05; 2. Sarah Hansen, 34, Fort Collins, CO,
2:59:32; 3. Wendy Mader, 39, Fort Collins, CO, 3:10:50; 4.
Michelle Dettmann, 21, Fort Collins, CO, 3:12:00; 5. Catharine
Speights, 47, Fort Collins, CO, 3:12:39. Masters (40+): 1.
Catharine Speights, 47, Fort Collins, CO, 3:12:39; 2. Mary
ryan donovan wins the colorado
marathon in 2:32:34.
CO, 19:46; 2. Fred Beavers, 55, Longmont, CO, 20:15; 3.
Jeffrey Rheiner, 56, Boulder, CO, 20:40. Seniors (60+): 1.
Jim Reynolds, 63, Lafayette, CO, 20:31; 2. Chuck Lowrie, 65,
Denver, CO, 21:16; 3. Chris Dice, 61, Lafayette, CO, 22:04.
Overall Female: 1. Jeanne Cooper, 34, Eagle, CO, 18:09; 2.
Natalie Davey, 39, Boulder, CO, 18:22; 3. Annie Howley, 29,
Boulder, CO, 18:56; 4. Liz Reyes, 26, Boulder, CO, 19:18; 5.
Anna Fitzgerald, 34, Willoughby, Australia, 19:22. Masters
(40+): 1. Jennifer Ward, 43, Boulder, CO, 22:09; 2. Michelle
Cleminson, 41, Superior, CO, 23:11; 3. Jeannie Freis, 42,
Superior, CO, 24:27. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Lynn O’Donnell,
52, Longmont, CO, 23:48; 2. Cathy Donovan, 50, Lafayette,
CO, 24:06; 3. Janet Degrazia, 56, Boulder, CO, 24:29. Seniors
(60+): 1. Jan Hughes, 61, Boulder, CO, 23:48; 2. Debbie
Hathaway, 60, Boulder, CO, 26:11; 3. Anita Gonzales, 67,
Boulder, CO, 27:26.
Mud Hen 5K
April 28, 2012
Longmont, CO
Overall Male: 1. Shane Angelovich, 26, Longmont, CO,
17:54; 2. Samuel Berg, 15, Longmont, CO, 18:28; 3. Rob
Holden, 35, Longmont, CO, 18:52; 4. Ryan Soderquist, 34,
Longmont, CO, 18:55; 5. Johan Backman, 46, Longmont,
CO, 19:26. Masters (40+): 1. Johan Backman, 46, Longmont,
CO, 19:26; 2. Ben Kuster, 47, Longmont, CO, 19:40; 3. Arnie
Salazar, 44, Johnstown, CO, 19:42. Grand Masters (50+):
1. Darran Clifford, 50, Loveland, CO, 20:05; 2. Rick Bruess,
52, Boulder, CO, 21:31; 3. Fred Charles, 50, Longmont, CO,
22:21. Seniors (60+): 1. Dave Smith, 62, Boulder, CO, 25:17;
2. Darwin Anderson, 67, Longmont, CO, 27:05; 3. Charles
Otoupalik, 68, Firestone, CO, 27:09. Overall Female: 1.
Laura Bruess, 51, Boulder, CO, 20:34; 2. Kari Chapman, 32,
Longmont, CO, 23:06; 3. Hillary Simonson, 31, Longmont,
CO, 23:14; 4. Rachel Demartin, 32, Longmont, CO, 23:26; 5.
Alison Zemanek, 41, Longmont, CO, 23:27. Masters (40+): 1.
Alison Zemanek, 41, Longmont, CO, 23:27; 2. Jessica Easley,
42, Longmont, CO, 25:30; 3. Brook Koski, 48, Longmont, CO,
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Frielingsdorf, 41, Fort Collins, CO, 3:16:54; 3. Tina Stoner,
41, Fort Collins, CO, 3:21:48. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Pia
Goulding, 51, Fort Collins, CO, 3:41:23; 2. Maria Vargas, 51,
South Park, PA, 3:41:27; 3. Connie Demercurio, 55, Windsor,
CO, 3:42:54. Seniors (60+): 1. Jan Peart, 60, Ridgway, CO,
4:05:16; 2. Mary Lindahl, 61, Lakewood, CO, 4:20:16; 3.
Joanne Harms, 60, Fort Collins, CO, 4:29:40.
13.1M Overall Male: 1. Paul Petersen, 32, Fort Collins, CO,
1:07:49; 2. Curtis Pottle, 22, Longmont, CO, 1:17:09; 3. Tim
Hebert, 35, Fort Collins, CO, 1:20:22; 4. Chris Aronson, 29,
Fort Collins, CO, 1:20:34; 5. Garret Lee, 19, Longmont, CO,
1:20:54. Masters (40+): 1. Bryan Vanmeveren, 47, Fort Collins,
CO, 1:22:50; 2. Jerry Dismukes, 41, Denver, CO, 1:23:49;
3. Kevin Vesel, 40, La Grange, IL, 1:25:10. Grand Masters
(50+): 1. Bob Vanlangenhoven, 50, Fort Collins, CO, 1:22:11;
2. Jay Survil, 53, Aurora, CO, 1:23:08; 3. Woody Noleen, 56,
Colorado Springs, CO, 1:32:07. Seniors (60+): 1. Jim Hunter,
61, Fort Collins, CO, 1:35:36; 2. Steve Joyce, 63, Loveland,
CO, 1:41:58; 3. John Lonsdale, 64, Fort Collins, CO, 1:44:34.
Overall Female: 1. Kara Ford, 33, Broomfield, CO, 1:21:16; 2.
Brennan Liming, 35, Apex, NC, 1:25:12; 3. Sara Whatmore,
27, Denver, CO, 1:27:48; 4. Ellie Peterson, 22, Windsor, CO,
1:28:30; 5. Sabine Preisinger, 43, Bailey, CO, 1:29:30. Masters
(40+): 1. Sabine Preisinger, 43, Bailey, CO, 1:29:30; 2. Stella
Heffron, 45, Parker, CO, 1:31:30; 3. Justine Cleary, 42, Fort
Collins, CO, 1:35:28. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Andrea Bell,
59, Golden, CO, 1:42:16; 2. Carolyn Weiss, 53, Golden, CO,
1:42:22; 3. Julie Monroe, 57, Loveland, CO, 1:46:15. Seniors
(60+): 1. Libby James, 75, Fort Collins, CO, 1:50:43; 2. Cathy
Morgan, 65, Fort Collins, CO, 1:56:09; 3. Gloria Montoya, 64,
Pueblo, CO, 2:09:16.
10K Overall Male: 1. Brian Erb, 41, Fort Collins, CO, 34:49;
2. Craig Depperschmidt, 27, Fort Collins, CO, 35:28; 3. Kyle
Ewing, 27, Denver, CO, 40:39; 4. Don Sims, 46, Littleton,
CO, 41:13; 5. Steven Anderson, 49, Fort Collins, CO, 41:51.
Masters (40+): 1. Brian Erb, 41, Fort Collins, CO, 34:49; 2.
Don Sims, 46, Littleton, CO, 41:13; 3. Steven Anderson, 49,
Fort Collins, CO, 41:51. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Mark Andre,
59, Fort Collins, CO, 43:19; 2. Mark Gurule, 50, Pueblo, CO,
43:22; 3. Bill Watts, 53, Littleton, CO, 43:28. Seniors (60+):
1. Jim Woodard, 61, Cheyenne, WY, 45:58; 2. Chris Dice, 61,
Broomfield, CO, 46:14; 3. Mike Riley, 60, Fort Collins, CO,
50:22. Overall Female: 1. Karen Giesler, 29, Fort Collins,
CO, 42:57; 2. Karen Anderson, 51, Fort Collins, CO, 43:13; 3.
Marissa Sarkesian, 26, Denver, CO, 44:32; 4. Joslin Heyward,
29, Laramie, WY, 46:55; 5. Stacey Schnering, 23, Cassville, WI,
48:04. Masters (40+): 1. Joni Horst, 42, Loveland, CO, 49:45;
2. Nancy Newman, 42, Fort Collins, CO, 50:57; 3. Tracy Webb,
41, Fort Collins, CO, 52:48. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Karen
Anderson, 51, Fort Collins, CO, 43:13; 2. Julie Badenhoop, 53,
Gering, NE, 54:10; 3. Lucinda Smith, 54, Loveland, CO, 57:33.
Seniors (60+): 1. Edith Heyward, 60, Sheridan, WY, 58:10; 2.
Barbara Janssen, 65, Colorado Springs, CO, 1:02:45; 3. Cheryl
Weill, 67, Fort Collins, CO, 1:03:30.
5K Overall Male: 1. Ken Banwart, 44, Fort Collins, CO, 19:29;
2. Troy Wolf, 41, Fort Collins, CO, 19:38; 3. John Dickey, 38, Fort
Collins, CO, 20:13; 4. Joel Head, 35, Longmont, CO, 23:50; 5.
Aaron Drake, 20, Fort Collins, CO, 23:50. Masters (40+): 1.
Ken Banwart, 44, Fort Collins, CO, 19:29; 2. Troy Wolf, 41, Fort
Collins, CO, 19:38; 3. John Dickey, 38, Fort Collins, CO, 20:13.
Grand Masters (50+): 1. James Kellogg, 58, Loveland, CO,
28:11; 2. Jim Lohr, 57, Fort Collins, CO, 28:31; 3. Jeff Adair,
55, Littleton, CO, 31:01. Seniors (60+): 1. Tim Christopherson,
60, Fort Collins, CO, 30:43; 2. Ron Baker, 61, Fort Collins, CO,
36:25; 3. Lynn Matoush, 60, Orrington, ME, 37:55. Overall
Female: 1. Heidi Ewing, 36, Lasalle, CO, 20:51 CR; 2. Jessie
Wilburn, 25, Fort Collins, CO, 21:53; 3. Maggie Waldner, 19,
Longmont, CO, 22:51; 4. Hannah Hampton, 14, Rock Springs,
WY, 24:14; 5. Beth Goldstein, 45, San Francisco, CA, 24:37.
Masters (40+): 1. Beth Goldstein, 45, San Francisco, CA,
24:37; 2. Meg Wieland, 40, Colorado Springs, CO, 28:37; 3.
Stephanie Clarkson, 43, Akron, CO, 30:56. Grand Masters
(50+): 1. Tia Lohr, 54, Fort Collins, CO, 28:31; 2. Ben Dodds,
56, Fort Collins, CO, 28:52; 3. Kathy Kellogg, 58, Loveland,
CO, 31:50. Seniors (60+): 1. Cherlyn Gorsky, 64, Fort Collins,
CO, 41:30; 2. Barb Reimer, 74, Fort Collins, CO, 41:30; 3.
Charlene Horner, 68, Fort Collins, CO, 41:32.
Mother’s Day 5K
May 13, 2012
Denver, CO
947 Finishers - Timing by: Colorado Race Timing - Elevation: Start/
Finish = 5,280’ - Course Records: Russell Slade, 16:17 (2010); Lori
Walker, 18:29 (2010)
Overall Male: 1. Lenny Laraio, 38, Centennial, CO, 17:27; 2.
July/August 2012
running the trail at the boneyard
boogie 10K trail race in eagle.
John Klish, 30, 17:58; 3. Anthony Beeson, 36, 18:18; 4. Jeff
Wong, 31, 19:17; 5. Adam Truex, 28, 19:44. Masters (40+):
1. Kenneth Ruterbories, 43, 19:52; 2. Vincent Nickols, 43,
20:14; 3. Ben Fibbe, 40, 20:19. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Paul
Watts, 53, 20:57; 2. Rogder Guzman, 51, 22:39; 3. Ted Itzov,
56, 22:54. Seniors (60+): 1. Hank Koehler, 60, 32:27; 2. Steve
Creighton, 62, 34:27; 3. Michael Muzar, 62, 35:59. Overall
Female: 1. Lori Walker, 29, 18:20 CR; 2. Patty Murray-Albo,
46, 18:39; 3. Laura Mortimer, 26, 19:07; 4. Molly Smith, 31,
19:42; 5. Amy Hanophy, 40, 20:37. Masters (40+): 1. Patty
Murray-Albo, 46, 18:39; 2. Amy Hanophy, 40, 20:37; 3. Micol
Rothman-Haji, 40, 23:07. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Patti
Galleher, 54, 20:43; 2. Lisa Bailey, 53, 27:29; 3. Gail Johansen,
59, 27:59. Seniors (60+): 1. Patti Thurman, 60, 27:09; 2. Jean
McClenathen, 62, 32:05; 3. Karen Fehringer, 62, 32:27.
Mother’s Day Title 9K
May 13, 2012
Boulder, CO
1,706 Finishers - Timing by: Boulder Road Runners - Elevation:
Start/Finish = 5,260’ - Course Records: Unknown
Overall Male: 1. Joseph Creighton, 12, Longmont, CO, 40:58;
2. Nathan Gravelding, 15, Golden, CO, 44:16; 3. Peter Littman,
11, Boulder, CO, 46:23; 4. Kyle Piper, 11, Louisville, CO, 46:35;
5. Alexander Fazio, 12, Loveland, CO, 47:20. Overall Female:
1. Ellen Hart, 53, Denver, CO, 38:31; 2. Lindsey Deneen, 36,
Boulder, CO, 39:09; 3. Sulema James, 28, Evergreen, CO,
39:15; 4. Kerrie Wlad, 40, Boulder, CO, 39:24; 5. Stacie Bell,
43, Louisville, CO, 39:55. Masters (40+): 1. Kerrie Wlad, 40,
Boulder, CO, 39:24; 2. Stacie Bell, 43, Louisville, CO, 39:55;
3. Leslie Hoffman, 45, Louisville, CO, 40:33. Grand Masters
(50+): 1. Ellen Hart, 53, Denver, CO, 38:31; 2. Bonnie Jortberg,
52, Boulder, CO, 45:17; 3. Laurie Brockway, 50, Boulder, CO,
45:33. Seniors (60+): 1. Jacquelyn Walker, 60, Laramie, WY,
51:16; 2. Pamela Huber, 60, Parker, CO, 1:01:08; 3. Cathy
Curtis, 60, Denver, CO, 1:02:23.
Run To The Shrine
May 19, 2012
Colorado Springs, CO
808 Finishers (10K - 258, 5K - 550) - Timing by: Timberline Timing
- Elevation: Start/Finish = 6,000’ - Course Records: 10K = Peter
Maksimow, 39:16 (2011); Connilee Walkter, 48:10 (2011); 5K = Josiah
Valensuela, 22:13 (20101; Angela Meloy, 26:03 (2010)
CO, 29:22; 3. Gerald Romero, 40, Colorado Springs, CO,
42:38; 4. Grand Drummond, 34, Woodland Park, CO, 45:35;
5. Paul Koch, 44, Colorado Springs, CO, 46:09. Masters
(40+): 1. Gerald Romero, 40, Colorado Springs, CO, 42:38;
2. Paul Koch, 44, Colorado Springs, CO, 46:09; 3. Robert
Westermeyer, 42, Colorado Springs, CO, 51:57. Grand
Masters (50+): 1. Rick Shoulberg, 51, Guffey, CO, 48:19;
2. John Goodloe, 50, Colorado Springs, CO, 49:24; 3.
Jeff McIntosh, 51, Colorado Springs, CO, 52:54. Seniors
(60+): 1. Corbin Hillam, 60, Colorado Springs, CO, 59:27;
2. Stephen Mueller, 63, Colorado Springs, CO, 1:07:18; 3.
Stan Richardson, 60, Colorado Springs, CO, 1:08:05. Overall
Female: 1. Kelli Lusk, 42, Manitou Springs, CO, 49:06;
2. Meghan Cogswell, 33, Colorado Springs, CO, 52:35;
3. Connie Shaner, 38, Fort Morgan, CO, 53:02; 4. Cassie
Sonnenberg, 26, 53:16; 5. Brianne Pierson, 33, Colorado
Springs, CO, 55:11. Masters (40+): 1. Kelli Lusk, 42, Manitou
Springs, CO, 49:06; 2. Diane Heinz, 42, Colorado Springs, CO,
55:43; 3. Kellie Kreikemeier, 40, Colorado Springs, CO, 55:49.
Grand Masters (50+): 1. Betty Gruca, 52, Colorado Springs,
CO, 1:02:45; 2. Sharon Scheetz, 59, Colorado Springs, CO,
1:05:53; 3. Carol Greening, 51, Divide, CO, 1:06:36. Seniors
(60+): 1. Cathy Saratone, 60, Colorado Springs, CO, 1:09:33;
2. Sally Kennett, 69, Colorado Springs, CO, 1:23:27.
5K Overall Male: 1. Carl Arnold III, 24, Colorado Springs, CO,
21:59 CR; 2. Kevin Morgan, 25, Colorado Springs, CO, 22:25;
3. Michael Hagen, 49, Colorado Springs, CO, 22:34; 4. Neal
Oseland, 42, Colorado Springs, CO, 22:58; 5. Corey Ferrell,
28, Colorado Springs, CO, 23:03. Masters (40+): 1. Michael
Hagen, 49, Colorado Springs, CO, 22:34; 2. Neal Oseland,
42, Colorado Springs, CO, 22:58; 3. Jay Watts, 40, Peyton,
CO, 28:40. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Joseph Castillo, 50,
Colorado Springs, CO, 33:37; 2. David Lutter, 59, Commerce,
CO, 37:21; 3. Thomas Lear, 52, Colorado Springs, CO, 39:15.
Seniors (60+): 1. Mike Foster, 70, Woodland Park, CO, 36:13;
2. Joseph Mitchener, 66, Colorado Springs, CO, 38:10; 3.
Stephen Pendleton, 62, Colorado Springs, CO, 39:30. Overall
Female: 1. Eva Hagen, 44, Colorado Springs, CO, 26:07 CR;
2. Louise Kriel, 41, Colorado Springs, CO, 27:20; 3. Marzena
Matecki, 24, Colorado Springs, CO, 28:01; 4. Cameron
Blackwell, 15, Colorado Springs, CO, 29:18; 5. Lacey Acree,
32, Lakewood, CO, 29:18. Masters (40+): 1. Eva Hagen, 44,
Colorado Springs, CO, 26:07; 2. Louise Kriel, 41, Colorado
Springs, CO, 27:20; 3. Krista Schulz, 41, Colorado Springs,
CO, 34:27. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Georgann Richardson,
56, Colorado Springs, CO, 32:30; 2. Marilyn Goodloe, 50,
Colorado Springs, CO, 32:33; 3. Karen Henry, 55, Monument,
CO, 36:53. Seniors (60+): 1. Kelly Murphy, 60, Leadville, CO,
36:59; 2. Judy Schlei, 61, Colorado Springs, CO, 40:19; 3.
Mindy Clammer, 60, Colorado Springs, CO, 41:28.
10K Overall Male: 1. Tommy Manning, 36, Colorado Springs,
CO, 38:40 CR; 2. Peter Maksimow, 33, Manitou Springs,
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31:49. Masters (40+): 1. David Morris, 42, Arvada, CO, 32:59;
2. Craig Greenslit, 42, Berthoud, CO, 34:22; 3. Brian Erb, 41,
Fort Collins, CO, 34:44. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Raul Carrizalez, 51, Evans, CO, 36:58; 2. Dan King, 52, Boulder, CO,
36:58; 3. Scott Tucker, 50, Louisville, CO, 37:08. Seniors
(60+): 1. Doug Bell, 61, Greeley, CO, 38:19; 2. Dave Dooley,
65, Erie, CO, 41:46; 3. Nicholas Fickling, 62, Edwards, CO,
42:19. Overall Female Citizen: 1. Nuta Olaru, 41, Longmont, CO, 35:07; 2. Kristen Fryburg-Zaitz, 31, Broomfield,
CO, 35:08; 3. Brianne Nelson, 31, Fort Collins, CO, 35:43; 4.
Kara Lubieniecki, 23, Lakewood, CO, 35:46; 5. Lidia Simon,
38, Boulder, CO, 36:01. Masters (40+): 1. Nuta Olaru, 41,
Longmont, CO, 35:07; 2. Stacey Chamberlain, 40, Boulder,
CO, 38:06; 3. Joanna Zeiger, 42, Boulder, CO, 39:04. Grand
Masters (50+): 1. Ellen Hart, 54, Denver, CO, 39:11; 2. Patti
Galleher, 54, Denver, CO, 41:42; 3. Laura Bruess, 51, Boulder,
CO, 41:57. Seniors (60+): 1. Laurie Rugenstein, 64, Boulder,
CO, 47:32; 2. Helen McQueeney, 60, Glenwood Springs, CO,
49:13; 3. Jan Hughes, 61, Boulder, CO, 49:57.
Spring Runoff 10K Trail Race
June 3, 2012
Vail, CO
404 Finishers - Timing by: CJ Sports Timing - Elevation: Start/Finish
= 8,235’ - Course Records: Max King, 41:30 (2011); Megan Kimmel,
49:51 (2011)
Gabe small defends his title at the
steamboat marathon.
Cottonwood Classic 5K
May 19, 2012
Thornton, CO
696 Finishers - Timing by: Hallucination Sports - Elevation: Start/
Finish = 5,350’ - Course Records: Peter Remien, 15:48 (2008); Bevin
Kennelly-Thomps, 17:43 (2009)
Overall Male: 1. Adam Rich, 31, 16:04; 2. Bobby Reyes, 27,
Boulder, CO, 16:47; 3. Zach Mares, 24, 17:14; 4. Nicholas
Robinson, 18, 17:16; 5. Todd Straka, 45, 17:36. Masters (40+):
1. Todd Straka, 45, 17:36; 2. Peter Tel, 48, Akron, CO, 18:16;
3. Steven Kohuth, 46, Superior, CO, 19:40. Grand Masters
(50+): 1. Raul Carrizalez, 51, 18:20; 2. Timothy Jones, 51,
18:53; 3. Kyle Hubbart, 55, 18:55. Seniors (60+): 1. Doug Bell,
18:23; 2. Dave Dooley, 65, 20:38; 3. Robert Cooper, 64, 21:56.
Overall Female: 1. Kara Ford, 33, 18:35; 2. Noelle Green, 47,
19:44; 3. Laura Bruess, 51, 20:56; 4. Annie Sasseville, 35,
Westminster, CO, 21:25; 5. Lisa Jackson, 41, 21:32. Masters
(40+): 1. Noelle Green, 47, 19:44; 2. Lisa Jackson, 41, 21:32;
3. Eilleen Herbst, 45, 22:08. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Laura
Bruess, 51, 20:56; 2. Theresa Jockers, 50, 22:25; 3. Jenny
Weber, 55, Greeley, CO, 23:40. Seniors (60+): 1. Taunya
Wilson, 65, 27:49; 2. Roseann Jolly, 62, 28:07; 3. Joanne
Harms, 60, 28:13.
BolderBOULDER 10K
May 28, 2012
Boulder, CO
46,527 Finishers - Timing by: The End Result - Elevation: Start =
5,300’, Finish = 5,345 - Course Records: Belete Assefa, 29:22 (2011);
Lineth Chepkurui, 32:29 (2011)
Overall Male Elite: 1. Allan Kiprono, KEN, 29:53; 2. Tadese
Tola, ETH, 30:02; 3. Brihanu Gedefa, ETH, 30:05; 4. Aaron
Braun, USA, 30:09; 5. Demessew Tsega, ETH, 30:33; 6.
Kenyon Neuman, CO, 30:35; 7. John Korir, KEN, 30:41; 8.
Alejandro Suarez, MEX, 30:44; 9. Leon Lopez Constantino,
PER, 30:45; 10. Juan Carlos Romero, MEX, 30:50. Overall
Female Elite: 1. Mamitu Daska, ETH, 33:05; 2. Janet
Cherobon-Bawcom, USA, 33:22; 3. Deena Kastor, USA,
33:31; 4. Kayoko Fukushi, JPN, 33:31; 5. Ashu Kasim, ETH,
34:02; 6. Alemitu Abera, ETH, 34:15; 7. Marisol Romero, MEX,
34:24; 8. Genoveva Kigen, KEN, 34:42; 9. Adrianna Nelson,
CO, 34:54; 10. Benita Willis, AUS, 34:57.
Overall Male Citizen: 1. Josh Eberly, 31, Gunnison, CO,
31:10; 2. Curtis Begley Jr., 24, Boulder, CO, 31:17; 3. Edwin
Sang, 30, Colorado Springs, CO, 31:31; 4. Greg Reindl, 27,
Denver, CO, 31:34; 5. Ryan Hafer, 26, Colorado Springs, CO,
July/August 2012
Overall Male: 1. Josh Eberly, Gunnison, CO, 51:03; 2.
Ryan Hafer, Colorado Springs, CO, 51:13; 3. Jeremy Freed,
Boulder, CO, 51:43; 4. Max King, Bend, OR, 53:57:10; 5. Peter
Maksimow, Manitou Springs, CO, 55:58:70. Masters (40+):
1. Henry Reed, Avon, CO, 1:00:50; 2. Mark Ryan, Avon, CO,
1:02:41; 3. Pete Swenson, Breckenridge, CO, 1:05:08. Grand
Masters (50+): 1. Kevin Deighan, Vail, CO, 1:06:44; 2. Dave
Elmblad, Eagle, CO, 1:16:38; 3. Robert Phillips, Denver, CO,
1:18:34. Seniors (60+): 1. Nicholas Fickling, Edwards, CO,
1:13:09; 2. Elliot Henry, Frisco, CO, 1:18:18; 3. Bill Burns,
Avon, CO, 1:46:36. Overall Female: 1. Laura Haefeli, Del
Norte, CO, 1:00:39; 2. Melody Fairchild, Boulder, CO, 1:01:07;
3. Sarah Pizzo, Denver, CO, 1:04:40; 4. Jeanne Cooper, Eagle,
CO, 1:05:28; 5. Sari Anderson, Carbondale, CO, 1:07:00.
Masters (40+): 1. Eva Hagen, Colorado Springs, CO, 1:09:58;
2. Mia Stockdale, Vail, CO, 1:13:18; 3. Gretchen Reeves,
Avon, CO, 1:14:04. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Lisa Reeder,
Avon, CO, 1:22:35; 2. Virginia Bradley, Frisco, CO, 1:28:53; 3.
Lisa Gonzales-Gile, Edwards, CO, 1:29:02. Seniors (60+): 1.
Marianne Schroeder, Bettendorf, IA, 2:05:23; 2. Ellen Colrick,
Vail, CO, 2:24:17.
4:39:05; 2. Pamela Nathan, 62, Idaho Springs, CO, 5:13:23; 3.
Marion Landry, 67, Montreal, Quebec, 6:20:48.
13.1M Overall Male: 1. Campbell Ilfrey, 38, Louisville, CO,
1:18:59; 2. Todd Trapp, 33, Craig, CO, 1:19:36; 3. Jonathan
Wells, 41, Castle Rock, CO, 1:20:12; 4. Brent Abbott, 28,
Boulder, CO, 1:20:41; 5. Harald Niedl, 37, Steamboat Springs,
CO, 1:22:31. Masters (40+): 1. Jonathan Wells, 41, Castle
Rock, CO, 1:20:12; 2. Stuart Geer, 44, Boulder, CO, 1:23:34;
3. Jerry Dismukes, 41, Denver, CO, 1:26:39. Grand Masters
(50+): 1. James Thompson, 52, Lansing, MI, 1:27:36; 2.
Brad Pace, 56, Fort Collins, CO, 1:29:28; 3. Bill Lawrence,
57, Boulder, CO, 1:32:30. Seniors (60+): 1. Thomas Nelson,
66, Steamboat Springs, CO, 1:43:32; 2. Jeff Kremer, 60,
Snowmass Village, CO, 1:57:12; 3. Glenn Herzog, 69,
Fredericksburg, TX, 2:02:45. Overall Female: 1. Lori Walker,
29, Henderson, CO, 1:25:25; 2. Bean Wrenn, 38, Boulder,
CO, 1:25:41; 3. Deidre Pepin, 38, Steamboat Springs, CO,
1:27:58; 4. Molly Smith, 32, Denver, CO, 1:28:38; 5. Emily
Lawrence, 24, Boulder, CO, 1:32:28. Masters (40+): 1.
Justine Cleary, 42, Fort Collins, CO, 1:40:27; 2. Ann Barbier,
46, Steamboat Springs, CO, 1:42:30; 3. Melanie Baker, 48,
Fort Collins, CO, 1:43:41. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Karen
Anderson, 51, Steamboat Springs, CO, 1:35:06; 2. Tawnya
Fabian, 50, Steamboat Springs, CO, 1:49:59; 3. Julie Monroe,
57, Loveland, CO, 1:52:49. Seniors (60+): 1. Karen Harris, 60,
Fairplay, CO, 2:15:34; 2. Kathy Jakubowski, 70, Denver, CO,
2:20:08; 3. Jeannie Hauff, 60, Edwards, CO, 2:23:57.
10K Overall Male: 1. Matt Davies, 40, Boulder, CO, 38:28;
2. Simon Zink, 13, Fraser, CO, 39:57; 3. Patrick Barrett, 37,
Colorado Springs, CO, 40:35; 4. Matthew Mayer, 39, Oak
Creek, CO, 41:20; 5. Charlie Vonthaden, 18, Steamboat
Springs, CO, 42:58. Masters (40+): 1. Matt Davies, 40,
Boulder, CO, 38:28; 2. Walter Magill, 42, Steamboat Springs,
CO, 44:23; 3. Scott Hutchings, 43, Longmont, CO, 44:58.
Grand Masters (50+): 1. Paul Hughes, 54, Steamboat
Springs, CO, 44:42; 2. Rich Holston, 59, Westminster, CO,
47:57; 3. Brad Derthick, 51, Boulder, CO, 48:13. Seniors
(60+): 1. Mike Moore, 66, Steamboat Springs, CO, 52:38; 2.
John France, 71, Las Cruces, NM, 55:41; 3. Patrick Swank, 64,
Pueblo, CO, 57:57. Overall Female: 1. Danielle Korb, 27, Fort
Collins, CO, 41:39; 2. Mary Shore, 46, Fort Collins, CO, 46:24;
3. Kristin Dean, 39, Breckenridge, CO, 47:18; 4. Marietta
Roberts, 40, Steamboat Springs, CO, 48:14; 5. Aimee
Sumner, 42, Steamboat Springs, CO, 48:23. Masters (40+): 1.
Mary Shore, 46, Fort Collins, CO, 46:24; 2. Marietta Roberts,
40, Steamboat Springs, CO, 48:14; 3. Aimee Sumner, 42,
Steamboat Springs, CO, 48:23. Grand Masters (50+): 1.
Maria Korb, 59, Fort Collins, CO, 53:29; 2. Jennifer Fawcett,
50, Boulder, CO, 54:45; 3. Holly Wacker, 51, Longmont, CO,
56:22. Seniors (60+): 1. Kris Linderholm, 61, Fort Collins, CO,
1:09:25; 2. Judy Schure, 62, Denver, CO, 1:13:56; 3. Susan
Edholm, 62, Trinidad, CO, 1:14:33.
Run The Rockies Half Marathon & 10K
June 9, 2012
Frisco, CO
769 Finishers (241 - 13.1M, 444 - 10K, 83 - 5K) - Timing by: Timing
Consortium - Elevation: Start = 9,700’, Finish = 9,150’ - Course
Records: 13.1M - Jason Saitta, 1:14:31 (2003); Patty Rogers, 1:30:01
(2003); 10K - Jonathan Huie, 32:49 (2011); Michelle Suszek, 35:30
(2009); 5K - New Race
Steamboat Marathon
June 3, 2012
Steamboat Springs, CO
1,406 Finishers (276 - 26.2M, 826 - 13.1M, 304 - 10K) - Timing by:
Boulder Road Runners - Elevation: Marathon Start = 8,128’, Half
Marathon Start = 6,990’, 10K Start = 6,728’, Finish = 6,728’ - Course
Records: Marathon = Chris Prior, 2:23:59 (1990); Kirsten Whetstone,
2:54:59 (1990); Half Marathon = Don Janicki, 1:07:23 (1995); Inge
McClory, 1:18:30 (1995); 10K = Brian Sheriff, 30:24 (1990); Rosa Mota,
34:04 (1988)
26.2M Overall Male: 1. Gabe Small, 26, Lafayette, CO,
2:49:49; 2. David Pokorny, 44, Kirkwood, MO, 2:56:45; 3.
Travis Mattern, 37, Steamboat Springs, CO, 2:59:37; 4.
Charles Rohde, 18, Steamboat Springs, CO, 3:00:46; 5. Gary
Wilmot, 45, Lander, WY, 3:05:14. Masters (40+): 1. Gary
Wilmot, 45, Lander, WY, 3:05:14; 2. Russell Ball, 44, Castle
Rock, CO, 3:18:43; 3. Scott Fields, 45, Saint Charles, MO,
3:21:12. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Bill Hintze, 52, Fort Collins,
CO, 3:22:47; 2. Steven Sellars, 51, Superior, CO, 3:30:22; 3.
Allen Byrnes, 59, Fort Collins, CO, 3:31:03. Seniors (60+): 1.
Don Woody, 61, Lakewood, CO, 3:53:20; 2. Drake Stockert,
62, Mapleton, IL, 4:05:02; 3. Robert Bishton, 61, Fort Myers
Beach, FL, 4:27:24. Overall Female: 1. Callie Bradley, 28, Oak
Creek, CO, 3:13:14; 2. Sandra Currie, 43, Highlands Ranch,
CO, 3:17:41; 3. Kelly Heaney, 31, Steamboat Springs, CO,
3:25:15; 4. Susanne Stech, 45, Castle Rock, CO, 3:27:42; 5.
Alicia Eno, 34, Marion, AR, 3:30:43. Masters (40+): 1. Sandra
Currie, 43, Highlands Ranch, CO, 3:17:41; 2. Susanne Stech,
45, Castle Rock, CO, 3:27:42; 3. Susan McGarry, 40, Littleton,
CO, 3:42:39. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Barbara Franzen, 58,
Denver, CO, 4:07:19; 2. Kari Sever, 50, Fort Collins, CO,
4:11:07; 3. Boonsom Hartman, 54, Oak Forest, IL, 4:19:41.
Seniors (60+): 1. Jacqueline Whitehead, 60, Lakewood, CO,
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13.1M Overall Male: 1. Nathaniel Gebhard, 29, Brooklyn,
NY, 1:27:30; 2. David Ceniceros, 24, Aurora, CO, 1:32:19;
3. Rodolfo Cid Perez, 40, Denver, CO, 1:32:38; 4. David
Ceniceros, 24, Aurora, CO, 1:32:19; 5. John Herndon, 23, Fort
Collins, CO, 1:33:42. Masters (40+): 1. Rodolfo Cid Perez,
40, Denver, CO, 1:32:38; 2. Michael Parlier, 44, Colorado
Springs, CO, 1:35:45; 3. John Coffey, 48, Broomfield, CO,
1:37:49. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Robert Veges, 59, Golden,
CO, 1:47:39; 2. Eddie Bowers, 51, Frisco, CO, 1:48:08; 3.
Murray Hills, 54, Boulder, CO, 1:48:54. Seniors (60+): 1.
Will Moody, 62, Bailey, CO, 1:55:05; 2. Ed Youngberg, 69,
Evergreen, CO, 2:07:05; 3. Bill Burns, 63, Avon, CO, 2:15:42.
Overall Female: 1. Trisha Oeth, 33, Denver, CO, 1:35:28; 2.
Elizabeth Anderson, 44, Thornton, CO, 1:35:41; 3. Jennifer
Hurley, 34, Dillon, CO, 1:38:36; 4. Diane Wood, 37, Denver,
CO, 1:40:44; 5. Marketa Prchlikova, 31, Littleton, CO,
1:41:10. Masters (40+): 1. Elizabeth Anderson, 44, Thornton,
CO, 1:35:41; 2. Julie Hagen, 44, Dumont, CO, 1:48:18; 3.
Anna O’Dell, 43, Denver, CO, 1:57:52. Grand Masters (50+):
1. Barbara Mallory, 53, Littleton, CO, 1:44:10; 2. Christine
Rodriguez, 55, Lakewood, CO, 2:06:29; 3. Jen Hardy, 50,
Boulder, CO, 2:08:37. Seniors (60+): 1. Katie Krieves, 60,
Evergreen, CO, 2:13:59; 2. Nancy Mallon, 66, Denver, CO,
2:37:47; 3. Christy Giddings, 69, Fort Collins, CO, 2:56:05.
10K Overall Male: 1. Russell Stein, 39, San Francisco, CA,
34:15; 2. Liam Meiron, 16, Frisco, CO, 35:05; 3. Tyler Scholl,
11, Kremmling, CO, 35:09; 4. Matt Pehardu, 24, Littleton,
CO, 35:29; 5. Zach Casias, 21, Fountain, CO, 36:02. Masters
(40+): 1. Michael Quispe, 45, Littleton, CO, 37:16; 2. David
Rothenburger, 43, Denver, CO, 40:00; 3. Shawn Scholl, 47,
Kremmling, CO, 40:18. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Bob Van
Langenhoven, 50, Fort Collins, CO, 38:18; 2. Kyle Hubbart,
55, Broomfield, CO, 39:45; 3. Paul Chamberlin, 55, Golden,
CO, 42:03. Seniors (60+): 1. Jim Martin, 61, Boulder, CO,
46:23; 2. Kelvin Garfit, 61, Breckenridge, CO, 46:45; 3. Larry
Anderson, 66, Evergreen, CO, 53:19. Overall Female: 1.
Elizabeth Watkins, 29, Colorado Springs, CO, 39:21; 2.
Susan Nuzum, 45, Boulder, CO, 39:31; 3. Molly Dahlquist,
19, Peoria, IL, 40:41; 4. Sabine Preisinger, 43, Bailey, CO,
40:53; 5. Stella Heffron, 45, Parker, CO, 41:18. Masters
(40+): 1. Susan Nuzum, 45, Boulder, CO, 39:31; 2. Sabine
Preisinger, 43, Bailey, CO, 40:53; 3. Stella Heffron, 45,
Parker, CO, 41:18. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Delcia Litt, 53,
Erie, CO, 41:36; 2. Judy Chamberlin, 53, Golden, CO, 43:30;
3. Cindy Bargell, 52, Dillon, CO, 48:03. Seniors (60+): 1.
Joanne Harms, 60, Fort Collins, CO, 52:06; 2. Taunya Wilson,
65, Thornton, CO, 56:22; 3. Wendy Goad, 61, Arvada, CO,
58:46.
5K Overall Male: 1. Callan Deline, 16, Avon, CO, 19:45; 2.
Jonathan Miller, 42, Wolfeboro Falls, NH, 23:06; 3. David
Cook, 46, Denver, CO, 24:47; 4. Cody Rempelos, 16, Fort
Collins, CO, 25:22; 5. John Tippit, 45, San Antonio, TX, 27:47.
Masters (40+): 1. Jonathan Miller, 42, Wolfeboro Falls, NH,
23:06; 2. David Cook, 46, Denver, CO, 24:47; 3. John Tippit,
45, San Antonio, TX, 27:47. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Keith
Bilisoly, 56, Frisco, CO, 30:57; 2. Ed King, 59, Littleton, CO,
32:35; 3. Rob Groll, 52, Denver, CO, 33:53. Seniors (60+):
1. Edmond Feuille, 62, Wichita, KS, 34:05; 2. Lewis Miller,
67, Ashburn, VA, 35:31; 3. Ron Ireland, 60, Lone Tree, CO,
39:29. Overall Female: 1. Meg Taylor, 36, Littleton, CO,
26:06; 2. Mackenzie Jones, 22, Dillon, CO, 27:42; 3. Tempie
Sistrunk, 27, Silverthorne, CO, 29:44; 4. Ann Marie Weston,
42, Lakewood, CO, 29:52; 5. Jenna Levy, 20, Chico, CA,
30:00. Masters (40+): 1. Ann Marie Weston, 42, Lakewood,
CO, 29:52; 2. Amy Chan, 41, Denver, CO, 35:28; 3. Jennifer
Dewar, 41, Lakewood, CO, 36:10. Grand Masters (50+): 1.
Cindy Bargell, 52, Dillon, CO, 29:56; 2. Marjory McClaren,
53, Kalispell, MT, 32:20; 3. Cindy Prindle, 52, West Salem,
WI, 36:24. Seniors (60+): 1. Kelly Murphy, 60, Leadville, CO,
34:45; 2. Gayle Jones Westerber, 60, Dillon, CO, 49:11.
Garden of the Gods 10M
June 10, 2012
Manitou Springs, CO
1,624 Finishers (1,462 - 10M, 172 - 5K) - Timing by: Pikes Peak Road
Runners - Elevation: Start/Finish = 6,280’ - Course Records: Simon
Cheprot, 50:31 (2009); Belaynesh Gebre, 58:49 (2009) ; 5K = New
10M Overall Male: 1. Teklu Deneke, 32, Flagstaff, AZ, 54:00;
2. Benard Langat, 29, Santa Fe, NM, 54:14; 3. Ryan Hafer, 26,
Colorado Springs, CO, 54:25; 4. Mario Macias, 30, Alamosa,
CO, 54:41; 5. Jared Abuya, 35, Colorado Springs, CO, 55:11.
Masters (40+): 1. Gerald Romero, 40, Colorado Springs, CO,
1:02:30; 2. William Gray, 43, Colorado Springs, CO, 1:04:20;
3. Neal Oseland, 43, Colorado Springs, CO, 1:04:37. Grand
Masters (50+): 1. Charlie Gray, 58, Pueblo, CO, 1:09:42; 2.
Rick Shoulberg, 51, Guffey, CO, 1:10:51; 3. Marc Winslow,
51, Colorado Springs, CO, 1:12:54. Seniors (60+): 1. Ron
Hendricks, 60, Larkspur, CO, 1:11:25; 2. Elliot Henry, 66,
Frisco, CO, 1:19:43; 3. Herb Tanzer, 60, Woodland Park, CO,
1:20:34. Overall Female: 1. Lauren Kleppin, 23, Manitou
Springs, CO, 1:03:03; 2. Kelly Ramirez, 26, Fort Collins, CO,
1:08:52; 3. Susie Dyck, 31, Ankeny, IA, 1:09:25; 4. Rahcael
Cuellar, 30, Albuquerque, NM, 1:10:16; 5. Rochelle Persson,
44, Colorado Springs, CO, 1:10:41. Masters (40+): 1. Rochelle
Persson, 44, Colorado Springs, CO, 1:10:41; 2. Eva Hagen, 44,
Colorado Springs, CO, 1:10:58; 3. Louise Kriel, 41, Colorado
Springs, CO, 1:16:03. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Janice Flynn,
53, Colorado Springs, CO, 1:18:51; 2. Kyra Shimizu, 51,
Superior, CO, 1:22:24; 3. Jeanne McCurnin, 56, Mason City,
IA, 1:23:18. Seniors (60+): 1. Carol Kinzy, 64, Pueblo, CO,
1:27:58; 2. Shane Holonitch, 61, Englewood, CO, 1:30:56; 3.
Joyce McKelvey, 67, Black Forest, CO, 1:39:25.
5K Overall Male: 1. David Powers, 19, Security, CO, 18:54;
2. Corey Lewenkamp, 15, Pueblo West, CO, 19:28; 3. Daniel
Myers, 17, Colorado Springs, CO, 19:40; 4. Keith Morgan, 20,
Colorado Springs, CO, 20:14; 5. Matt Najarian, 16, Colorado
Springs, CO, 20:30. Masters (40+): 1. Mark Lanser, 40,
Cadillac, MI, 25:54; 2. Marc Gonzalez, 43, 26:25; 3. Timothy
Kirby, 49, Coconut Creek, FL, 29:01. Grand Masters (50+):
1. Michael Guenther, 50, Monument, CO, 21:07; 2. David
Garrett, 51, Albuquerque, NM, 22:52; 3. Michael Schenk, 59,
Colorado Springs, CO, 23:02. Seniors (60+): 1. Pablo Vigil, 60,
Loveland, CO, 23:16; 2. Robert Hobbs, 60, Colorado Springs,
CO, 29:13; 3. Jeff Smith, 71, Colorado Springs, CO, 29:49.
Overall Female: 1. Bailey Blackhurst, 14, Colorado Springs,
CO, 21:18; 2. Rene Carter, 14, Colorado Springs, CO, 23:22;
3. Tyra Evans, 27, Woolloongabba, QLD, 24:00; 4. Maya Neam,
22, Fort Collins, CO, 24:15; 5. Caitlin Kievenaar, 23, Greeley,
CO, 24:33. Masters (40+): 1. Cory Woodring, 44, Colorado
Springs, CO, 25:28; 2. Jennifer Shotwell, 46, Colorado
Springs, CO, 28:01; 3. Michelle Chapman, 43, Colorado
Springs, CO, 29:39. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Karen Williams,
52, Wichita, KS, 28:14; 2. Karen Pfeifer, 51, Colorado Springs,
CO, 28:55; 3. Julie Hobbs, 58, Colorado Springs, CO, 29:25.
Seniors (60+): 1. Ilda Aurelio, 67, Thornton, CO, 43:10; 2.
Susan Westervelt, 61, Golden, CO, 56:16.
For more results, visit our website:
www.coloradorunnermag.com
July/August 2012
2012 Colorado Runner Racing Series
eve nt g u i d e
running / walking
07/05
Boulder 5K Stride Series V; 6:00
PM; Boulder Reservoir, Boulder,
CO; racingunderground.com; 303642-7917
07/07
24 Hours of Laramie; 12:00 PM;
Medicine Bow National Forest,
Laramie, WY; geminiadventures.
com; 303-249-1112
07/07
Aspen Valley Marathon; 26.2M,
13.1, 5K; 7:00 AM; Wagner Park,
Aspen, CO; aspenvalleymarathon.
com
JULY
07/01
Copper Mountain Trail Races;
13.1M, 10K, 5K; 9:00 AM; Burning
Stone Plaza, Copper Mountain,
CO; copperhalf.com; 303-926-1017
07/01
Mountain Madness Half
Marathon; 13.1M, 10K; 8:00 AM;
Howelsen Ice Rink, Steamboat
Springs, CO; runningseries.com
07/07
LaSportiva Vail Hill Climb; 7.5M;
8:00 AM; Vail Mountain, Vail, CO;
vailrec.com; 970-479-2280
07/07
Max Silver Little Dipper Pool 5K;
8:30 AM; Cheyenne Mountain High
School, Colorado Springs, CO;
thelittledipperpool.com
07/04
Blue Ribbon 10K; 9:00 AM; Town
Park, Silverton, CO; silverton4th.
eventbrite.com
07/07
07/04
Boogie’s Diner Buddy Run 5M;
8:00 AM; Boogie’s Diner, Aspen,
CO
07/07
07/07
07/04
Firecrackers & Flapjacks
4M; 8:00 AM; EB Rains Park,
Northglenn, CO; northglenn.org;
303-450-8800
07/04
FireKracker 5K; 8:00 AM; Fort
Collins, CO; fortcollinsrunningclub.
org; 970-224-9896
07/04
Freedom Run 5K; 8:00 AM;
Evergreen Middle School,
Evergreen, CO; mtevans.org; 303674-6400
07/04
Four on the Fourth 4K; 9:00 AM;
Avery Brewing Co, Boulder, CO;
averybrewing.com; 303-545-6755
07/04
Georgetown Fourth of July
5K; 8:00 AM; Strauss Park,
Georgetown, CO
07/04
Gothic To Crested Butte 1/3
Marathon; 8:00 AM; Gothic, CO
07/04
07/04
07/07
07/08
South Suburban July Fun Run
Series I; 5K; 8:00 AM; Littleton,
CO; runningguru.com
Summer Roundup Trail Run;
12K; 7:00 AM; Bear Creek
Park, Colorado Springs, CO;
summerroundup.com;719-4732625
07/12
Boulder 5K Stride Series VI; 6:00
HRCA July 4th 5K; 8:00 AM; Town
Center, Highlands Ranch, CO;
highlandsranchraceseries.com;
303-471-8838
07/13
Hardrock Hundred Endurance
Run; 100M; 6:00 AM; Silverton,
CO; hardrock100.com; 970-2593693
Independence Day 10K Trail
Run; 7:00 AM; Breckenridge, CO;
breckenridgerecreation.com; 970547-4321
07/14
Allenspark Run Like the
Wind; 10K, 5K; 9:00 AM; The
Old Gallery, Allenspark, CO;
allensparkoldgallery.com; 303747-2840
07/04
Liberty 5K; 8:00 AM; Grimm
Brothers Brewhouse, Loveland,
CO; lovelandroadrunners.com;
970-219-9844
07/04
Liberty Dash 5K; 9:00 AM;
Sweetwater Park, Lone Tree, CO;
runningguru.com
07/04
Liberty Point 5K; 7:30 AM; Pueblo
West, CO; pueblounitedway.org;
719-583-4455
07/04
Liberty Run 4M; 8:30 AM;
Washington Park, Denver, CO;
bkbltd.com; 303-694-2202
07/04
Redline 13.1 Longmont; 6:00 AM;
Sandstone Ranch Park, Longmont,
CO; redlinerunningcompany.com
07/08
Let Freedom Run; 10K, 5K; 8:30
AM; Streets Fitness, Louisville, CO;
3wraces.com; 720-722-4226
07/04
Nielson Challenge; 2M; 8:00 AM;
Monument Valley Park, Colorado
Springs, CO; pprrun.org
RMRR Stone House Park 2.4M;
8:00 AM; Stone House Park,
Lakewood, CO; rmrr.org; 303871-8366
07/04
07/04
Middle Park Half Marathon; 8:00
AM; Polhamus Park, Granby, CO;
digdeepsports.com; 303-960-8129
07/14
CMRA White Ranch Trail Run;
10K, 5K; 8:00 AM; White Ranch
Park, Golden, CO; comastersrun.
org
07/14
Dirty Dozen Mud Run; 8:00 AM;
Gypsum, CO; gypsumchamber.
com
07/14
Heroes in Recovery 6K; 8:00 AM;
Community Park, Louisville, CO;
heroesinrecovery6k.com
07/14
Hogback Hustle 5K; 8:00
AM; New Castle Recreation
Center, New Castle, CO;
newcastlecolorado.org; 970-9305944
07/14
Howelsen Hill Trail Race;
8M, 4M; 8:00 AM; Olympian
Hall, Steamboat Springs, CO;
runningseries.com
Race Against Cancer; 7:15 AM;
Grace Reformed Church, Greeley,
CO; unco.edu
07/14
Mosaic 5K; 8:00 AM; Amazing
Grace Fellowship, Pueblo West,
CO; socorunners.org
Superior Downhill Mile; 7:00 AM;
Superior, CO
07/14
Palmer Lake Elementary July 4th
Fun Run; 4M; 7:15 AM; Palmer
Lake, CO; july4funrun.com
Rogers River Run 5K; 7:30 AM;
Rogers Grove, Longmont, CO;
www.ci.longmont.co.us
July/August 2012
07/26
Boulder 5K Stride Series VIII;
6:00 PM; Boulder Reservoir,
Boulder, CO; racingunderground.
com; 303-642-7917
07/28
CF Climb; 8:00 AM; Sports
Authority Field at Mile High,
Denver, CO; colorado.cff.org/climb;
303-296-6610
Walk, Run & Wag 5K; 8:00 AM;
Sloan’s Lake Park, Denver, CO;
hearingdog.org
07/28
Barr Trail Mountain Race;
12M; 7:00 AM; Cog Railway
Station, Manitou Springs, CO;
runpikespeak.com
Crested Butte Summit Mountain
Half Marathon; 7:00 AM; Crested
Butte Mountain Resort, Crested
Butte, CO; livingjourneys.org; 970349-2777
07/28
Destination Health 5K; 8:30
AM; City Park, Denver, CO;
runningguru.com
07/28
Grand Mesa 100; 100M, 50M,
37M; 5:30 AM; Grand Mesa Lodge,
Grand Mesa, CO; grandmesa100.
com
07/28
Kiss Me Dirty Female Mud Run;
9:00 AM; Colorado Horse Park,
Parker, CO; kissmedirty.com
07/28
Kiowa Kickin’ 5K; 8:35 AM; Yellow
Pine Ranch, Kiowa, CO
07/14
Sand Creek Half Marathon;
13.1M, 10K, 5K; 7:00 AM;
Stapleton Central Park, Denver,
CO; runningguru.com; 720-3652935
07/14
Series II; 5K; 8:00 AM; Littleton,
CO; runningguru.com
07/14
07/15
07/15
Donor Dash 5K; 8:00 AM;
donoralliance.org
07/15
Gold Rush 9M Mountain
Race; 9:30 AM; Victor, CO;
victorcolorado.com/goldrushdays.
htm; 719-689-3601
07/15
Silver Rush 50 Mile; 6:00 AM;
Leadville, CO; leadvilleraceseries.
com
Monument Downhill 5K;
8:00 AM; Grand Junction, CO;
monumentdownhill.com; 970270-0774
XTERRA Beaver Creek Trail
Runs; 13.1M, 10K; 8:00 AM;
Beaver Creek Mountain, Beaver
Creek, CO; xterraplanet.com
07/28
07/18
Summit Trail Running Series
Race #3; 5:45 PM; Breckenridge,
CO; breckenridgerecreation.com;
970-547-4321
07/28
Mt. Falcon Trail Race; 15K; 8:00
AM; Mt. Falcon Park, Morrison,
CO; evergreenrecreation.com;
720-880-1221
07/19
Boulder 5K Stride Series VII; 6:00
07/28
Paint Mines Trail Race; 6K; 9:00
AM; Paint Mines Interpretive Park,
Calhan, CO; trailrunner.com; 719573-4133
07/20
Epic Rocky Mountain Relay;
5:00 PM; Colorado Springs, CO;
epicrelays.com; 303-999-1159
07/28
SHAPE Diva Dash; 8:00 AM;
Boulder Reservoir, Boulder, CO;
divadash.com; 303-667-5559
07/20
UNDERWEARNESS’ Drop
Your Drawers & Run Wild! 5K;
6:00 PM; City Park, Denver, CO;
underwearness.org; 816-392-7816
07/28
Series IV; 5K; 8:00 AM; Littleton,
CO; runningguru.com
07/21
Classic 10K; 7:00 AM; Tiffany
Square, Colorado Springs, CO;
csgrandprix.com; 719-635-8803
07/29
RMRR Marathon Training Series
#1; 20M,10M; 7:00 AM; City Park,
Westminster, CO; rmrr.org; 303871-8366
07/21
Kendall Mountain Marathon;
26.2M, 13.1M; 8:00 AM; Grand
Imperial Hotel, Silverton, CO;
ultrasignup.com
08/01
970-547-4321
08/02
Boulder 5K Stride Series IX; 6:00
08/03
RMRR deKoevend Park 5K; 6:30
PM; deKoevend Park, Centennial,
CO; rmrr.org; 303-871-8366
08/03
Wild West Relay; 5:00 PM;
Budweiser Tour Center, Fort
Collins, CO; wildwestrelay.com
07/15
07/21
Loveland Classic; 10K, 5K; 7:00
AM; Davidson-Gebhardt, Loveland,
CO; lovelandclassic.com
07/21
Naked Foot 5K; 8:00 AM;
Clement Park, Littleton, CO;
thenakedfoot5k.com; 720-3523638
07/21
Run Against Homelessness
5K; 7:00 AM; Colorado
College, Colorado Springs, CO;
summerfest.co; 719-357-2931
07/21
Spring Creek Memorial Trail
Race; 9M, 5K; 8:00 AM; Spring
Creek, Steamboat Springs, CO;
runningseries.com
07/21
Series III; 5K; 8:00 AM; Littleton,
CO; runningguru.com
07/21
Survivor Mud Run; 9:00 AM;
Valley Dirt Riders, Johnstown, CO;
survivormudrun.com
07/22
07/22
Keystone Trail Races; 13.1M,
10K; 9:00 AM; River Run East,
Keystone, CO; keystonehalf.com;
303-926-1017
LaSportiva Vail Half Marathon;
8:00 AM; Vail Village, Vail, CO;
vailrec.com; 970-479-2280
Sponsored by the Avery Brewing Company, Boulder Running Company, and Runner’s Roost
The Colorado Runner Racing
Series is a scored series of races
throughout the state. Runners will
be scored based on their finishing
place in each race. The winners in
each division will win $400 and
be featured in Colorado Runner
magazine. The second and third
place winners in each division will
win gift certificates from Runner’s
Roost.
Criteria used in determining
Racing Series races
(in this order):
1. Location - 2. Race organization - 3. Race
distance - 4. Date of the race - 5. Quality of the
field - 6. Size of the race
PRIZE MONEY!
$4,800 Total Prize Purse
donated by Avery Brewing
Company & Boulder
Running Company
2012 Racing Series Schedule
Date
January 14
Name
Distance
Quicker Quaker 5K
Location
5K
Lafayette
January 21
Frosty’s Frozen Five & Ten
5M
Littleton
February 12
Valentine’s Day 5K
5K
Denver
March 11
Runnin’ Of The Green
7K
Denver
April 15
Platte River Half Marathon
13.1M
Littleton
May 19
Cottonwood Classic
5K
Thornton
June 2
Sierra’s Race Against Meningitis
5K
Loveland
June 9
Run The Rockies
10K
Frisco
June 24
Stadium Stampede
5K
Denver
July 4
Four On The Fourth
4K
Boulder
July 8
Summer Roundup Trail Race
12K
Colorado Springs
July 21
Grand Prix Classic
10K
Colorado Springs
August 11
Georgetown to Idaho Springs
13.1M
Idaho Springs
September 3
Colorado Run
5K
Fort Collins
September 16
Farmer’s 5000
5K
Wheat Ridge
august
08/04
Beulah Challenge Run;
10K, 5K; 8:00 AM; Beulah
Community Center, Beulah, CO;
beulahchallenge.blogspot.com
08/04
BIG DOG BRAG Mud Run; 9:00
AM; Ram Off Road Park, Colorado
Springs, CO; bigdogbrag.com;
719-210-6820
08/04
Cheatin' Woodchuck Chase; 9:00
AM; Wayne Edgeton, Rifle, CO;
rifleco.org; 970-665-6570
08/04
Danapalooza 5K Trail Run; 8:00
AM; Ecology Park, Canon City, CO;
danapalooza.com
08/04
Human Race; 10K, 5K; 8:00
AM; Old Town, Fort Collins, CO;
fortcollinshumanrace.com
Racing
Series
Scoring
In each race, points will be awarded to the top 10 male and female finishers in all divisions. The open division
is for runners 39 and under. The masters division is for runners 40-49. The 50-54 division is for runners ages
50-54. The 55-59 division is for runners 55-59. The 60-64 division is for runners ages 60-64. And, the seniors
division is for runners 65 and over. Runners may participate in as many races as they choose, but must compete
in six races to be eligible for awards. For races with multiple starts, finish time will be used to calculate points.
If a race has scoring trouble, it may be removed from the series. For races with multiple events, only the event
listed will be scored. Your division is based on the first race of the year that you score in.
Scoring System
UPCOMING SERIES
RACES:
Not all race information may be
correct. Some races will change
dates or start times. Please confirm
all information before traveling to an
event. Our complete free calendar
is always available year round
online at www.coloradorunnermag.
com.
Place
All Divisions
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
July 4
July 8
July 21
August 11
Boulder
Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs
Idaho Springs
eve nt g u i d e
08/04
Hunky Dory Trail Half Marathon;
8:30 AM; Breckenridge, CO;
townofbreckenridge.com; 970547-4321
08/04
LaSportiva Eldora Trail 10K;
8:00 AM; Eldora Mountain Resort,
Nederland, CO; digdeepsports.
com; 303-960-8129
08/04
Mt. Werner Classic 50K; 8:00 AM;
Mt. Werner Ski Area, Steamboat
08/04
Muck Ruckus MS; 8:00 AM;
Winter Park, CO; muckruckusms.
com
08/04
Run for Hope 5K; 8:00 AM; City
Park, Fort Collins, CO; runforhope.
net; 970-229-1366
08/04
Run for Rwanda 5K; 8:00 AM;
Cottonwood Creek Park, Colorado
Springs, CO; runforrwanda.org
08/04
08/04
08/05
Evergreen Town Race;
10K, 5K; 8:00 AM; Evergreen
Lake House, Evergreen, CO;
evergreentownrace.org; 303-5265971
08/05
Step Up For Cancer; 7:00
AM; Dick’s Sporting Goods
Park, Commerace City, CO;
stepupforcancer.org
08/07
CMRA Fairmount 5K; 6:30 PM;
Fairmount Park, Golden, CO;
comastersrun.org
08/09
Boulder 5K Stride Series X; 6:00
08/11
08/11
08/11
08/11
08/11
AIDS Run Colorado; 5K; 9:30
AM; Cheesman Park, Denver, CO;
aidswalkcolorado.org; 303-9625304
Basalt Half Marathon; 7:45 AM;
Basalt Middle School, Basalt, CO;
[email protected]; 970618-2063
Be Ovary Aware 5K; 8:30
AM; America the Beautiful
beovaryaware.org
Beaver Creek Trail Races; 9:00
AM; Beaver Creek Resort, Avon,
CO; beavercreekhalf.com; 303926-1017
DaVita Kidney Rock 5K; 7:00
AM; Coors Field, Denver, CO;
davitakidneyrock.org
08/11
Firehouse 5K; 8:30 AM; The
Firehouse Church, Denver, CO;
denverfirehouse.com; 303-8864274
08/11
Georgetown to Idaho Springs
Half Marathon; 8:00 AM;
Georgetown, CO; gtishalf.org;
303-674-7449
08/11
Holy Cow Trail Stampede; 10K,
5K; 8:00 AM; Christopher Fields
Softball Complex, Westminster,
CO; www.ci.westminster.co.us
Mayor’s Cup; 10K, 5K; 8:30
AM; Ute Pass Cultural Center,
Woodland Park, CO; citywoodlandpark.org; 719-687-5211
08/11
08/11
Vonnie’s Voice 5K; 8:00 AM;
Leadville, CO; vonniesvoice5k.com
08/05
08/11
08/11
The Top Ten Mile; 7:00 AM; Grace
Athletic Center, Colorado Springs,
CO; csgrandprix.com; 719-6358803
LaSportiva Berry Picker 5K Trail
Run; 8:00 AM; Vail, CO; vailrec.
com; 970-479-2280
Kennebec Mountain Run; 8:00
AM; Durango, CO; go-dmt.org
08/11
08/04
08/11
Mt Sneffels Marathon; 26.2M,
13.1M; 6:30 AM; Ouray, CO;
mtsneffelsmarathon.com; 970325-0228
Panerathon; 10K, 5K; 8:00 AM;
University Village Panera Bread,
Colorado Springs, CO; paneracolorado.com
So Long to Summer 5K; 8:00
AM; Salisbury Park, Parker, CO;
parkeronline.org; 303-805-3278
Starlight March For Miracles
5K; 8:00 AM; Falcon Stadium,
Colorado Springs, CO; starlightcolorado.org
08/11
Up Down & All Around 5M;
8:00 AM; Pueblo West, CO;
socorunners.org
08/12
Leadville Trail 10K; 9:00 AM;
com
08/12
Mega 5K; 8:00 AM; Colorado
Springs, CO; bigwigraces.com
08/12
RMRR Marathon Training Series;
20M, 10M; 7:00 AM; City Park,
08/25
Bergen Peak Trail Race;
20K,10K; 8:00 AM; Evergreen,
CO; evergreenrecreation.com;
720-880-1221
08/25
Desert Championships; 15K,
10K; 7:30 AM; West Airport, Grand
Junction, CO; 970-241-6478
08/25
Falcon 5K; 8:00 AM; Falcon High
School, Falcon, CO; haberkorn.
[email protected]
08/25
08/25
08/25
Golden Beaver Trail Half
Marathon; 13.1M, 10K; 9:00
AM; Beaver Meadows Resort
Ranch, Red Feather Lakes, CO;
higherrunning.com; 970-402-8634
Half the Sky Foundation 5K;
8:00 AM; Doherty High School,
Colorado Springs, CO; duensrm.
tripod.com/halftheskyfoundation5k
Mountain Chile Cha Cha; 15M,
7M, 3M; 9:00 AM; Reservoir River
Ranch, Pagosa Springs, CO;
joingecko.com; 303-475-6053
08/25
Old Flowers Road 10K; 10K, 5K;
8:00 AM; Stove Prairie School,
Bellvue, CO; RCVFD.org; 970221-1268
08/25
Oyster Racing Series; 8:00 AM;
Denver, CO; oysterracingseries.
com; 303-777-6887
08/25
Ram Run 5K; 9:00 AM; Green
Mountain High School, Lakewood,
CO; ramrun5k.com; 303-982-9467
Steamboat Stinger Trail
Marathon; 26.2M, 13.1M; 7:00 AM;
Howelson Hill Ski Area, Steamboat
08/25
Run 4 Trails; 8:00 AM; Sierra Vista
Elementary, Pueblo West, CO;
activepueblo.net; 719-647-1230
08/25
08/14
GORE-TEX TransRockies Run;
9:00 AM; Buena Vista Heritage
Museum, Buena Vista, CO;
transrockies.com; 403-668-7537
Silverton Alpine Marathon;
50K, 26.2M; 7:00 AM;
Memorial Park, Silverton, CO;
silvertonalpinerunning.com; 602361-7440
08/25
08/15
970-547-4321
08/16
Eldorado Springs Cure 4M; 6:30
PM; Eldorado Springs Resort,
Eldorado Springs, CO; co-cancerfoundation.org; 720-250-8013
08/12
08/17
08/18
08/18
08/18
Firefly Run 5K; 8:30 PM; City
Park, Denver, CO; fireflyrun.com
Jericho Jog 5K; 8:00 AM;
Centennial, CO; stthomasmore.
org; 303-770-1155 x105
Leadville Trail 100; 4:00 AM;
com
Pikes Peak Ascent; 7:00
AM; Manitou Springs, CO;
pikespeakmarathon.org; 719473-2625
08/18
Warrior Dash Rockies; 9:00
AM; Copper Mountain, CO;
warriordash.com; 773-687-4595
08/19
Continental Divide Trail Run;
15M; 8:00 AM; Fish Creek Falls
Parking Area, Steamboat Springs,
CO; runningseries.com
08/19
Heart & Sole Half Marathon;
13.1M, 10K; 7:00 AM; Boulder
Reservoir, Boulder, CO;
heartandsolehalf.com; 303-5177046
08/19
Pikes Peak Marathon; 7:00
AM; Manitou Springs, CO;
pikespeakmarathon.org; 719473-2625
08/19
Race For Research 5K; 8:00 AM;
runningguru.com
July/August 2012
08/25
08/26
Team Hope 5K; 9:00 AM;
Stapleton Central Park, Denver,
CO; firstgiving.com; 303-903-0984
XTERRA Trail Run 10K; 8:00 AM;
Snow Mountain Ranch, Granby,
CO; marathonmajic.com
80’s Retro Run; 5K; 10:30
AM; Sloan’s Lake, Denver, CO;
RetroRunDenver.com
08/26
Aspen Backcountry
Marathon; 6:00 AM; Aspen, CO;
aspenbackcountrymarathon.com
08/26
CMRA Elk Meadow 10K; 8:00 AM;
Elk Meadow Park, Evergreen, CO;
comastersrun.org
08/26
La Sportiva Vail 10K @ 10,000
ft; 9:00 AM; Vail, CO; vailrec.com;
970-479-2280
08/26
08/26
XTERRA Trail Run 20K; 8:00 AM;
Snow Mountain Ranch, Granby,
CO; marathonmajic.com
08/29
08/30
970-547-4321
Silverton Challenge; 12:00 PM;
Kendall Mountain Lodge, Silverton,
CO; ultrasignup.com
september
09/01
Coal Creek Crossing 10M;
10M, 5K; 7:00 AM; Louisville
Community Park, Louisville, CO;
coalcreekcrossing.org
09/01
Creede Mountain Runs; 9:00
AM; Creede, CO; creede.com;
719-658-2374
09/01
Devil Dash 5K Mud Run; 9:00 AM;
Bohn Park, Lyons, CO; devildash.
com
09/01
09/01
09/01
Fountain Valley 5K; 8:00 AM;
Widefield High School, Colorado
Springs, CO; race4fallen@
earthlink.net
Mary’s Loop Trail Runs; 16M, 9M;
7:00 AM; Loma, CO; sarevents.org;
970-361-5788
09/08
Roadrunner to a Healthier Life
5K; 8:30 AM; Stapleton Centeral
Park, Denver, CO; runningguru.
com
09/08
Skyline Drive 10K; 8:00 AM;
Greydene Park, Canon City, CO;
ccrec.org
09/08
UCCS Rust-Buster Open; 7:00
AM; Monument Valley Park
North, Colorado Springs, CO;
gomountainlions.com; 719-2553005
09/09
Chalk it Up to Education 5K; 9:00
AM; Arapahoe Community College,
Littleton, CO; arapahoe.edu
Denver Half Marathon; 13.1M,
10K; 8:00 AM; West Cherry Creek
Reservoir, Aurora, CO; denverhalf.
com; 303-926-1017
09/03
09/05
09/07
Colorado Run; 10K, 5K; 8:30
AM; CSU, Fort Collins, CO;
coloradorun.com; 970-213-0855
Lakewood Trail Running Series
I; 6:00 PM; Bear Creek Lake Park,
Lakewood, CO; Lakewood.org;
303-987-4807
Ragnar Relay Colorado; 7:00 AM;
Breckenridge, CO; ragnarrelay.
com; 801-499-5024
09/08
9/11 Remembrance Run; 13.1M,
10M, 5K; 7:15 AM; Memorial Park,
Arvada, CO; runningguru.com;
303-420-8080
09/08
Berthoud Fall Family 5K;
9:00 AM; Berthoud, CO;
berthoudrunwalk.org
09/08
Blue Shoe Run for Prostate
Cancer; 5K; 7:45 AM; The Urology
Center of Colorado, Denver, CO;
theblueshoerun.com; 303-7627160
09/30
08/05
09/22
Emerald Mountain Trail
Run; 12K; 9:00 AM; Howelson
Hill, Steamboat Springs, CO;
runningseries.com
09/30
Run Crazy Horse; 26.2M,
13.1M; 8:00 AM; Rapid City, SD;
runcrazyhorse.com; 605-390-6137
Tri for the Cure; 7:00 AM; Cherry
Creek State Park, Aurora, CO;
triforthecure-denver.com
09/22
09/30
Run the Ranches Trail Run
Series II; 8M, 3M; 10:00 AM;
Sol Vista Basin, Granby, CO;
runtheranches.com; 970-726-1013
08/11
Golden Leaf Half Marathon;
8:30 AM; Snowmass Village, CO;
goldenleafhalfmarathon.com
HRCA Splash Mash Dash
Triathlon; 12:00 PM; Recreation
Center of Northridge,
Highlands Ranch, CO;
highlandsranchraceseries.com
Run Rabbit Run 100M Trail
Run; 8:00 AM; Bear River Bar
and Grill, Steamboat Springs, CO;
runrabbitrunsteamboat.com
08/12
Columbia Muddy Buddy; 8:00
AM; Boulder Reservoir, Boulder,
CO; muddybuddy.com
09/22
Rock ‘n’ Roll Denver Marathon;
26.2M, 13.1M; 6:55 AM; Civic
Center Park, Denver, CO;
runrocknroll.com; 800-311-1255
09/30
08/12
Autumn Color Run; 26.2M,
13.1M, 10K, 5K; 6:00 AM; Buena
Vista, CO; bvautumncolorrun.net
Outdoor Divas Women’s
Triathlon; 8:00 AM; Union
Reservoir, Longmont, CO;
withoutlimits.co; 303-408-1195
09/22
08/19
Steamboat Olympic at
Catamount; 8:00 AM; Lake
Catamount, Steamboat Springs,
CO; withoutlimits.co; 303-408-1195
08/26
XTERRA Lory; 8:00 AM;
Lory State Park, Bellvue, CO;
09/01
Boulder Sunset Tri/Du/Run; 1:00
CO; yourcausesports.org
09/08
FASB Fitness Festival 5K; 8:30
AM; Crescent Park, Greenwood
Village, CO; fasbfitnessfestival.com
09/08
Full Moon 5K; 8:00 AM; Firestone
Regional Sports Complex,
Firestone, CO; full-moon5k.com;
205-936-1385
09/08
Mud Brigade; 9:00 AM;
The Ranch, Loveland, CO;
mudbrigadenoco.com
09/08
Our Great Race 5K; 8:00 AM;
North Monument Valley Park,
Colorado Springs, CO; pprrun.org
09/08
RMRR Platte River Trailhead
Park 8M; 8:00 AM; Platte River
Trailhead Park, Thornton, CO; rmrr.
org; 303-871-8366
CMRA Stone House Triple-Cross
Trail Run; 9M; 8:00 AM; Stone
House Park, Lakewood, CO;
comastersrun.org
Ridgeview Husky 5K; 10:00 AM;
Ridgeview Elementary School,
Colorado Springs, CO; d49.org
09/15
Run Rabbit Run 50M Trail Run;
6:00 AM; Bear River Bar and
Grill, Steamboat Springs, CO;
runrabbitrunsteamboat.com
09/15
ThunderStorm 5K; 8:30 AM;
Discovery Canyon Campus,
Colorado Springs, CO;
runningguru.com
09/16
AQUAMAN Swim and Swim-Run
#6; 6:30 PM; Cherry Creek State
Park, Aurora, CO; withoutlimits.co;
203-313-3546
09/22
09/12
09/16
07/31
08/05
II; 6:00 PM; Bear Creek Lake Park,
Lakewood, CO; Lakewood.org;
303-987-4807
09/15
My Way or the Tri Way; 8:00 AM;
Aurora Reservoir, Aurora, CO;
thetriway.com; 303-642-7917
PPRR Fall Series I; 3.5M; 11:30
AM; North Monument Valley Park,
Colorado Springs, CO; pprrun.org
09/15
07/28
Dome Dash 5K; 8:00 AM; St.
Luke Orthodox Church, Erie, CO;
redlinerunningcompany.com
09/09
09/15
Agony and the Ecstasy 5.5M;
9:30 AM; Aspen Valley Ranch,
Woodland Park, CO; ppcf.org
Stroke & Stride VIII; 6:00 PM;
racingunderground.com; 303642-7917
09/22
09/09
09/03
Race for Freedom 5K Trail
Challenge; 9:30 AM; Bear Creek
Regional Park, Colorado Springs,
CO; race-for-freedom.com
07/26
Ironman Boulder 70.3; 6:30 AM;
ironmanboulder.com
Race For The Cure 5K; 7:50 AM;
Garden of the Gods Park, Colorado
Springs, CO; komencs.org
American Discovery Trail
Marathon; 26.2M, 13.1M; 6:30
AM; America the Beautiful
adtmarathon.com
09/29
203-313-3546
Fore Miler Race; 4.4M; 7:00 AM;
Lone Tree Golf Course, Centennial,
CO; RunningGuru.com
09/02
09/14
09/22
09/29
Pummeler’s Butt Trail Race; 10M,
5M, 3M; 9:00 AM; Gunnison, CO;
gunnisontrails.com
07/24
09/30
Neder-Nederland; 10K, 5K; 9:00
AM; Nederland, CO; nedernederlandrace.org
09/03
09/19
III; 6:00 PM; Bear Creek Lake
Park, Lakewood, CO; Lakewood.
org; 303-987-4807
09/29
Steamboat Lake Sprint Triathlon;
8:00 AM; Steamboat Lake State
Park, Clarke, CO; withoutlimits.co;
303-408-1195
Dirty Girl Mud Run; 9:00 AM; May
Farms, Byers, CO; godirtygirl.com
09/09
Aetna Park to Park 10M; 10M,
5M; 7:00 AM; City Park, Denver,
CO; aetnaparktopark.com; 303220-1037
09/16
Run the Ranches Trail Run
Series I; 8M, 3M; 10:00 AM; Devils
Thumb Ranch, Tabernash, CO;
runtheranches.com; 970-726-1013
Golden Gate Canyon Trail Half
Marathon; 8:30 AM; Golden Gate
Canyon State Park, Black Hawk,
CO; runuphillracing.com; 303870-0487
07/22
09/30
Breckenridge Crest Mountain
Marathon; 25M, 13.1M, 5M;
8:00 AM; Riverwalk Center,
Breckenridge, CO; mavsports.com;
970-390-4760
09/02
Run Around The Block 5K; 8:00
AM; Sloan’s Lake, Denver, CO;
rmmi.org
Devil Mountain Ultra; 50M, 50K,
13.1M; 7:00 AM; Turkey Springs
Area, Pagosa Springs, CO;
joingecko.com; 303-475-6053
Camp 4 Coffee Trail Run; 13.1M;
8:00 AM; Camp 4 Coffee, Crested
Butte, CO; visitcrestedbutte.com
10K at 10000 Feet; 10:00 AM;
Rabbit Ears Pass, Steamboat
Glenwood Springs Trail Race;
13.1M, 10K; 8:00 AM; Community
Center, Glenwood Springs, CO;
glenwoodspringshalf.com; 303926-1017
09/16
09/29
09/22
09/02
Cheap 5K; 9:00 AM; Colorado
Springs, CO; bigwigraces.com
Pony Express Trail Run; 15M;
8:00 AM; Rampart Reservoir,
Woodland Park, CO; pprrun.org
Bear Chase Trail Race; 50M,
50K, 13.1M, 10K; 6:30 AM; Bear
Creek Lake Park, Morrison, CO;
bearchaserace.com; 303-320-3343
09/09
09/02
09/16
09/22
09/22
09/16
El Grito 5K; 9:00 AM; Buckhorn
Exchange, Denver, CO; elgrito5k.
org
09/16
Farmers 5000; 9:00 AM; Wheat
Ridge High School, Wheat Ridge,
CO; farmers5000.org
09/16
La Sportiva EverGold Trail Run;
10K, 5K; 10:00 AM; Vail Golf Club,
Vail, CO; vailec.com; 970-479-2280
09/16
Lead King Loop; 25K, 12K; 8:30
AM; Beaver Lake Lodge, Marble,
CO; leadkingloop25k.com; 970704-1275
09/16
Panerathon; 10K, 5K; 8:00 AM;
Panera Bread, Westminster, CO;
panerthon.com
09/16
Pikes Peak Road Ascent; 8:00
AM; Cascade, CO; trailrunner.com
multi-sport
july
Spartyka Wounded Warrior 5K;
9:00 AM; South Monument Valley
spartykanation.com
07/03
Star Fit Kids 5K; 8:00 AM;
America the Beautiful Park,
Colorado Springs, CO; starfitkids.
org
07/05
203-313-3546
Stroke & Stride V; 6:00 PM;
september
07/08
Boulder Peak Triathlon; 6:00 AM;
5150boulder.com
09/01
The Son Run 5K; 8:30 AM; Glacier
Ice Arena, Grand Junction, CO;
thesonrun.cfsites.org; 970-2100565
07/10
203-313-3546
Tenderfoot Mountain Du/Tri; 7:00
AM; Hot Springs Aquatic Center,
Salida, CO; salidatriathlon.com;
719-539-6738
09/02
Equinox Half Marathon;
13.1M, 5M; 8:0 AM; Mishawaka
Amphitheatre, Fort Collins, CO;
equinoxhalfmarathon.com
07/12
Stroke & Stride VI; 6:00 PM;
Tenderfoot Mountain Kids’
Triathlon; 10:00 AM; Hot Springs
Aquatic Center, Salida, CO;
salidatriathlon.com; 719-539-6738
09/23
Graland Gallop 5K; 9:00 AM;
graland.org
07/14
Adventure Xstream - Summit
City; 9:00 AM; Frisco, CO;
gravityplay.com
09/09
Harvest Moon Long Course
Triathlon; 7:30 AM; Aurora
Reservoir, Aurora, CO;
07/14
Pagosa Duathlon; 7:45 AM;
Pagosa Springs, CO; acvap.org;
970-264-9075
09/15
Crescent Moon Triathlon; 8:00
AM; Aurora Reservoir, Aurora, CO;
crescentmoontri.com
09/23
Hop Skip & A Jump Start 5K;
9:00 AM; Children’s Museum
of Denver, Denver, CO;
mychildsmuseum.org
09/16
Race Against Suicide 5K; 8:00
AM; Colorado Springs, CO;
pikespeaksuicideprevention.org;
719-573-7447
07/15
Bear It All Off Road Triathlon;
9:00 AM; Bear Creek Lake Park,
Morrison, CO; bearevents.org
09/23
Evergreen Sprint Triathlon;
7:00 AM; Evergreen Lake
House, Evergreen, CO;
09/23
09/25
Horizon Runner’s Roost Cross
Country Classic; 5:30 PM;
Addenbrooke Park, Lakewood,
CO; horizon.adams12.org
Oktoberfest Sprint Triathlon;
8:00 AM; Union Reservoir,
Longmont, CO; withoutlimits.co;
303-408-1195
07/17
09/30
09/26
IV; 6:00 PM; Bear Creek Lake
Park, Lakewood, CO; Lakewood.
org; 303-987-4807
West Side Duathlon; 7:00 AM;
Long Lakes Sports Complex,
Arvada, CO; racingunderground.
com; 303-642-7917
07/19
09/22
09/22
Colorado Pulmonary
Hypertension 5K; 9:00 AM; City
Park, Denver, CO; bkbltd.com
Crossroads Half Marathon;
13.1M, 5K; 8:00 AM; Buckingham
Park, Fort Collins, CO;
footoftherockies.com
Running of the Bulls;
3.75M; 10:00 AM; Lake Estes
Marina, Estes Park, CO;
partnersmentoringyouth.org
Snow Mountain Ranch Trail
Races; 13.1M, 10K; 9:00 AM;
Granby, CO; snowmountainhalf.
com; 303-926-1017
august
09/23
Sundance Trail Run; 50K,
10K; 7:00 AM; Sundance, WY;
sundanctrailrun.com; 307-2831839
203-313-3546
Stroke & Stride VII; 6:00 PM;
July/August 2012
th e li g hte r s i d e
MUCH ADO ABOUT
SOMETHING
With much anticipation and excitement I finished my
run, went inside and took off my shoes. The latter
I’d done innumerable times before, but this time
was different. This was the day of reckoning. After a month of my personal experiment, the results
were about to be revealed. I grabbed the tops of
my shoes and took a deep breath. As the suspense
heightened I glanced towards my wife and requested, “Drum roll, please.” – Bob Schwartz
Before revealing the results and what happened next, let me start
at the beginning to provide some background. When the focus on running
form became more prevalent, I didn’t think much about it. My motto was if it
works don’t fix it. It was running for gosh sakes; this wasn’t a golf swing, tennis
stroke or even a basketball jump shot. I recognized that form was significant
for those activities but running? The only cadence in my head was one foot
forward, body to follow. Oh sure, I had my share of injuries over the years,
but I never attributed those to form, but to a violation of one or more of the
“too” principles. As in, too many miles, too much speed work, too many fast
long runs or the all too common double whammy of too much, too soon. All
of which were too bad.
But then something happened. One
of my running buddies told me his wife had
seen me running and asked him if I was combating an injury, as it appeared that I was leading and leaning with the left side of my body
and a bit choppy with my stride. The good
news was I wasn’t injured but, then again,
the bad news was I wasn’t injured (if that was
the form I was exhibiting when healthy). Of
course I quickly dismissed her recount, which
led me to the only reasonable conclusion. His
wife’s vision must lean to the left.
When I ran I felt graceful, fluid
and nimble. Leading to the left? Really? All
I kept hearing was Beyonce’s song “Irreplaceable” (“To the left, to the left, to the left, to
the left”). I then realized that after 40 years
of running I’d never actually seen myself run
minus an occasional reflection in a storefront
glass window. I hadn’t paid a lot of attention to how I ran, only that I ran. Maybe my
form could be tweaked but, then again, what
about many elite runners who ran fast despite
quirks in their form? Such as, Paula Radcliffe running like a bobblehead, or Alberto
Salazar’s shuffling stride, or Meb Keflezighi’s
heel striking. I then concluded that was all
irrelevant because, guess what, I wasn’t elite.
July/August 2012
So I read a lot about running form (upper body aligned, tall and
relaxed; shoulders loose with forward lean; shorter stride/quick leg turnover;
land lightly with mid-foot strike etc.) and decided I’d try and implement things
for a month. The proof would be in the pudding or, rather, the substantiation
would be in the sole.
After 30 days of concentrating on my foot landing, I examined my
soles to see how the mid foot strike had changed my usual shoe wear pattern
of the heels. Back to “Drum roll, please.”. I turned my shoes over and all I
could say was “What the heck?” I was crushed. My wear pattern was pretty
much the same as always! Go figure. Apparently, given my limited attention
span, my powers of form concentration were not lasting longer than for about
the first 600 yards of my runs.
I then took the next step, literally, and elected to go for a video
running gait analysis at a local sports medicine clinic. I’d get to the bottom of
this lean to the left thing. The analysis was designed to address biomechanical
abnormalities that should be corrected to improve performance and efficiency
and involved a clinical exam and a treadmill run. Early on in the process I
sensed my belief of being a gracefully efficient runner was about to be shattered. Perhaps I was overly sensitive, but when the professionals performing
the exam began raising their eyebrows, whispering to each other and subtly
shaking their heads, I was getting a not so subtle clue to their opinion. After
the analysis was completed, I was advised I had flexibility and strength imbalances, excessive shoulder and hip lateral rotation, pressed too hard on the ball
of my right foot, had a contralateral hip drop
and tight lower back and hip flexors as well
as overpronation, overstriding and right arm
overswinging. Eventually they were over with
my various “overs.” I couldn’t help but then
somewhat jokingly say, “Other than that, it’s
all good right?”
One of them then added, “Oh, plus
you lead with your left.” Great.
Eventually, I walked away with some
exercises, stretches, and running drills etc.
Over the next few months I did implement
everything and was confident that concentrating on my running form had assisted with my
speed, efficiency, and leg discomforts. Shortly
thereafter, I was doing some cross training on
the elliptical at the fitness center when my
wife came by. She was looking at me for a
bit and had a slightly quizzical expression as
I pounded away, feeling smooth and graceful.
Me and the machine in harmony. She then
said, “Do you know you lead with your left?”
Oy! I wonder if there is video elliptical gait analysis?
Bob is the author of the best selling humor book
“I Run, Therefore I Am - NUTS!” Sequel coming out in Nov. 2012! Check out: http://www.
runninglaughsblog.com.
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