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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Hello Runners! A lot of people ask me why I love to run. Why so far? Why so much? This topic of conversation has come up often recently since I’ve been battling a painful injury. It’s an easy answer for me. I love to spend time outdoors, soaking up the Colorado sun and breathing in the outdoor air. It’s a way for me to relieve stress. With each step, my worries seem to melt away and the tension in my shoulders starts to lift. I’ve tried biking. I’ve tried weightlifting, and even the stairclimber at the gym. Nothing else works like the magic of running. I don’t need equipment. I don’t have to drive anywhere. It’s easy, accessible and fun. Now that the days are getting longer and the temperatures keep

climbing, I hope you have renewed your passion for running. Whether you’re planning to run a marathon or you’re going to try a tri this spring, remember why you love to run. On a different note, many people ask me how we get our story ideas at Colorado Runner. Some are surprised to find out that nearly all of our features come from our readers. Keep them coming! If you have an idea or a story to share, email me at jessica@coloradorunnermag.com. As our magazine grows, I want to make sure that we continue to cover the stories that you want to read about.

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Run in Jacksonville, Florida, Boulder’s Colleen DeReuck captured the USA 15K championship road race title on March 13. She ran 49:02 to win $10,000 in prize money. Also from Colorado, Boulder’s Peter Julian placed 9th (as pictured) and Jason Hubbard of Alamosa placed 16th.

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Training is recruiting this May for runners interested in the new Nike Marathon for Women in San Francisco. The October 24 marathon will be run as a benefit for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Since its inception, Team in Training participants have raised $470 million for the charity.

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bach was named Colorado Sportswoman of the Year at the 30th annual Sportswomen of Colorado awards banquet March 14. The Smokey Hill High School junior had an undefeated cross country season last fall. She won the state cross country title, and she beat the best high school runners in the nation at the Foot Locker Cross Country Championships, finishing the 5K in 17:24.

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Runners are taking control of the American Discovery Trail Marathon. The race was inaugurated three years ago by a group of local runners and it has grown each year. The marathon will be biggest event the club owns. Bob Matu has been named race director and Patti Danner will be the aid station director. The PPRR are currently searching for club member volunteers to serve important positions, such as volunteer coordinator, equipment coordinator and finish line director for the September 6 event. This year’s race will be the RRCA Colorado State Trail Marathon Championships. Proceeds will benefit the Trail and Open Space Coalition.

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The Road To Athens

De Reuck Wins Olympic Marathon Trials

De Reuck strikes a pose.

umping out of an airplane, visiting Tibet, having Van Halen play at my birthday party, and watching a marathon from a press truck are all things I want crossed of my to do list before I die. One down, three to go. And what made the moment even better was watching Boulder’s Colleen De Reuck upset race favorite and American marathon record holder Deena Kastor, running a Trials record time of 2:28:25. St Louis hosted the USA Women’s Olympic Marathon trials with great flair. It was part of a citywide celebration marking 100 years since the 1904 World’s Fair and Olympic Marathon. The course followed that of the 1904 race, starting with four laps around the track at Washington University, then made for Forest Park, a sprawling expanse likened to Central Park in New York City. The morning was brisk and standing in the back of a large diesel truck proved quite chilly. Once the 123-woman field broke free of the track and entered the road section of the race, adrenaline kicked in, and all frostiness left my body. Blake Russell of Acton, Massachusetts veritably exploded from the pack and there was some serious concern that she may actually run down the truck. She had a good twenty second lead leaving the track with the rest of the pack remaining fairly bunched. Russell came through the second mile in approximately 10:43. Amazingly, she powered through the second mile in 5:06. She never looked back. Instead she set her gaze somewhere on the bumper of the press truck and forced a fierce pace, unmindful of any challengers. The few runners that remained within eyesight of her maintained exceptional discipline and kept their pace. There were times when it seemed Russell would be able to hold off the challengers. As the truck descended hills or made turns, we often could see no other runners. At one point she held a minute and five second lead. However, nearing the half way mark, it

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was clear she would not be able to hold such a pace and Deena Kastor of Mammoth Lakes, California literally and figuratively took off the gloves. Kastor closed for several miles and even stopped to tie her shoe. Every mile brought her closer and she finally caught Russell just after the big hill on Clayton. It seemed that she had it in the bag. She quickly built up a solid lead while enjoying the cheers of her vocal supporters and fighting through an obnoxious bicyclist who simply would not get off the course. Unlike Russell, Kastor seemed to hear foot steps and checked behind her several times. The truck pulled aside after the 35K marker so we could get the times of the leaders. We let Deena, sporting flash-yellow shoes, fly by. Colleen De Reuck followed thirty seconds behind her. We got the times for a few more contenders and sped off to catch Kastor. Someone in the truck asked “Does anyone think there’s a race for first?” General mumbling, mostly dissension, answered. A little over a mile later, Kastor turned from Faulkner Drive to the big hill on Clayton and looked back. Kastor was fading and De Reuck was gaining strength. The lead changed at almost exactly the same location on the course. De Reuck left Kastor behind and began extending a lead that ended as an Olympic Trials record. “I felt great until the 22-mile

mark,” said Kastor. “I started to feel depleted. Those last three miles were the longest three miles of my life.” De Reuck, a three-time Olympian for South Africa, had made her first U.S. Olympic Team and finished waving an American flag. “I was not thinking of winning the race, just getting in the top three,” said De Reuck. But in the final meters, she realized that she had accomplished much more. “Wow, I didn’t just make the team, but I won.” De Reuck’s performance broke Margaret Groos record of 2:29:50 set at the 1988 Olympic Trials in Pittsburgh. “Early on the pace was much faster than I wanted to go. I was just trying to keep my pace because I did not want to blow out. I was trying to stick with a 5:30 or 5:40 pace. I was really focused on this race. I’m thrilled to make the team and represent the country that I adopted is just a dream come true.” The day’s most dramatic twist came when Russell relinquished the third and final Olympic qualifying spot in the last half-mile to a hard charging Jen Rhines of Ardmore, Pennsylvania. Rhines, a 2000 Olympian in the 10,000 meters, tracked down Russell in the final half mile to earn the last qualifying spot in 2:29:57, over an 11 minute personal best. After sending just one marathoner to the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, the U.S. has three

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On The Run

A Runner Gone Mad The Cursed Beauty of Ironman by Jeff Recker

ll of this came about through rose colored glasses and idealistic romanticism. What else can explain my fascination with an ironman distance triathlon which consists of a 2.4 mile swim, a 112 mile bike, and a marathon to boot? Consider I neither swam nor biked ten months prior to my attempt. Still, I got sucked in and teary-eyed when NBC aired Ironman Triathlon, the world championship in Kona, Hawaii. Slow motion, and lots of it, always does that to me. Throw in some close-ups of the athletes, a few passed out on the course or crawling across the finish line, violins pitched to the stars, and a narrator describing the incredible journey these athletes have undertaken – because they figure we’re too stupid to figure it out for ourselves – and in less time than it took to come to my senses I was surfing the web to sign up.

Since I didn’t know Ironman’s website, I went to a search engine and typed in Iron Man, which turned out to be a huge mistake. Seconds later I was fending off pop-up ads for male enhancement products. Try explaining that one to your employer. In all fairness, a few pop-ups flashed before me for Vicodin and Valium, which, given the undertaking I was about to embark on, made some sense. Back on track I finally hit the jackpot and found the site. Qualifying for Ironman generally means placing high or winning your age group in a qualifying race. The other option was the lottery, which was the only way I could get in. I was eager until I read that Ironman only awards one hundred and fifty general lottery slots, a percentage of the total applicants that would leave me more likely to retain my job after my search engine experience than actually getting in. But there’s a sucker born every day and heck, if I can’t be an Ironman at least I can be something. So, in spite of the enormous odds, I filled out my on-line application, typed in my credit card information, and quicker than a Las Vegas dealer can snatch my chips, the transaction was complete. Sucka! Many months later I’m choked up, sitting in front of my laptop, waiting for the lottery selection to download. Mind you, I still haven’t started swimming or biking since I figure I’d better conserve my energy in case I get in. That’s the thing about us idealist-romantics, we’re high on warm thoughts but short on action – kind of like Democrats. Of course, I’ve had the date inked in my calendar all along, bold and red. Then I had an odd thought. Since this is a lottery, which would render any answers on the application irrelevant, why was I asked so many questions in the first place? Things like, why do you want to do this? – The mother of all questions. I was overwhelmed with wanting to spice up my answers, just in case life’s triumphs or literary dexterity mattered in the selection. Unfortunately, I’ve had no barriers to overcome in my lifetime that would

qualify me as a sentimental choice. In fact, the only thing I’d ever had to overcome is mediocrity. Come to think of it, that’s saying a lot. Instead, my answers defined me as a finisher of thirteen marathons and a gifted Clydesdale competitor in the winter months when chocolate and beer has its way with me. That and because it’s my dream, I had written. So original. Pick me; I’m special – sort of. I scrolled the names slowly, in fact so slowly I was either fearful of a positive outcome or a self-abusive glutton, I reached the R’s; Randolph, Ray, Ready, Reed. Back up, where’s Recker? Aghast, another year to reflect on what might have been? At least now I could watch the next edition of Ironman on TV with a cold beer and my big teary-eyes. Then something profound happened. Ray, a friend who also shared in my desire to be humiliated in public, reminded me that the Ironman World Championship was not the only game in town. “True, but it’s the only one aired on a major television network and since my family watches a lot of TV, well, heck it just makes sense.” But Ray brushed off my objection and suggested that I sign up for an ironman distance triathlon (IDT) in another location; a smaller venue that would kill me just the same. Great idea, I told him. Of course, this meant another experience with a search engine and another bout of pop-up ads. No, really Mr. Employer, I have no idea why I’m receiving these on-line invitations to join an all-male chat room. Fortunately, my search engine skills had grown considerably and I found a number of smaller, easy-to-get-in, IDT’s. “You know,” I told Ray, “this means I’ll have to buy a bike.” Preparing for an ironman distance triathlon involves the planning and purchasing of a great deal of things, mostly lubricants like gel for your fanny, vaseline for your feet, Body Glide for underneath your wetsuit, and PF40 sunblock for your earlobes. Additionally, there’s the purchase of a wetsuit, a bike, and a second bike since the first one you purchased on Ebay didn’t quite fit – but what a deal – and enough bike accessories to render its actual weight irrelevant. Though, I considered myself fortunate. As a runner, I already owned a tube of vaseline, savings: $1.69. That and nipple tape. I would just have to come up with an additional three thousand dollars for everything else. And when I’d completed my checklist Ray reminded me of the one thing I valued most and had forgotten – beer. In order to be a successful triathlete one must choose an official training beer. Ray’s was simple. He was signed up for Ironman Canada, and for that reason he chose Molson. I chose the Ultramax Triathlon in Missouri which left me pondering a long summer of drinking Budweiser. “I expect to suffer a lot during this training,” I told Ray, “but I refuse to suffer that much.” And for that reason I told Ray I’d jump on the Canadian Train. So I had my official beer and, subsequently, a training partner. Things were looking up. Now, the hard part of telling my wife. One night I came home crying. Really, I was hysterical, tears running down my face, distraught, the whole gambit. My wife took me aside and I spilled it all. “I’ve got to do this,” I told her. “I’m going to be an Ironman. I’ve got an official

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beer!” I sighed, knowing the difficult part was now behind me. “And can I write a check for three thousand dollars?” In all seriousness, I don’t want to downplay the training. I trained faithfully throughout the spring and summer and entered several races. A bright spot was finishing the Harvest Moon Half Ironman in less than five hours, taking third in my category. And while on vacation in Hawaii I stumbled upon the Lavaman Triathlon, an Olympic distance event that covered some of the same ground as The Ironman. That trip tortured my idealist-romantic psyche. At one point I found myself standing on Alii Drive in Kona, near the finish of the world championship race. My knees weakened at the realization that this was the hallowed ground that five thousand lotto-suckers a year pay good money in hopes of splaying their depleted bodies in front of hoards of well-wishers and sadists. Now, the Lavaman was sponsored by our hotel, the Hilton Waikoloa, and better yet, the Kona Brewing Company which brews one of the finest beers I’ve ever tasted – Longboard Lager. What luck I told my wife – we have to enter. “I’ve never done a triathlon,” she reminded me. “Yes, but you’ve drank plenty of Longboard,” I’d said. “Besides, there’s a beach party afterwards.” In retrospect, the experience bordered on the surreal – this justifies the oncoming italics. On my back, massage, deeply sated, admiring palm trees pushed gently in the breeze under a rich blue sky. Then, Longboard Lager flowing from a tap. Feet in the sand. Live band. Who’s that? Scott Tinley sitting in with the band strumming a guitar. He’s a legend in the sport. This is so cool! Awards. None for us but we’re happy in paradise. Riding bikes back to the hotel. Longboard buzz. Steering bikes – badly. Horrible behavior. Fun. Laughing. Some people claim I live my life under the glow of a rainbow. And perhaps my Author Jeff Recker survives the bike during the Ultramax Triathlon. Lavaman experience would support that. But the build-up to the ironman distance triathlon my chances in the lake than swim in an indoor pool. As a runner, I associate wasn’t all fun and games. Take, for example, a ride that Ray and I did athletics with the freedom of being outdoors. I read somewhere that “in in mid-summer, an eighty mile round trip to the small town of Gateway, wilderness is the renewal of the soul.” And really, some mornings were Colorado. There’s one diner in all of Gateway, and when we walked in for priceless in this respect. I’d always take a moment to catch the sunrise and breakfast we were greeted by two fun, attractive waitresses and exactly its purchase of low cumulous clouds floating along like cotton, their bellies no other customers in sight. Ray looked at me and said, “Its right out of pink and orange and gold, copied brilliantly on the lake encircled by the Forum. I never thought it would happen to me…” I told Ray he’d read too red, rugged cliffs of the Colorado National Monument to the south and the many squalid stories. We were handed our menus. I ended up having the deeply cut, raked clay of the Bookcliffs to the north. I’d watch the subtle French toast and Ray had a Spanish omelet with a side of sour cream. So, changes of shadow and color like early-man; incapable, uncomprehending as you can see, there were conflicts and confusion and an abundance of of his surroundings. And I’d fall in love. As Forrest Gump said in Forrest trying moments in all of this fun. Ray would disagree with me, but he’s the Gump, “I didn’t know where the sky ended and the earth began.” And type who could fall from a ten story building and halfway down comment I guess that’s how I felt. It was a carnival of color and form and I was so far so good. While Ray’s enthusiasm helped me to stay motivated I still somewhere within it, happy and satisfied, my eyes wide in appreciation had issues – especially when it came to swimming. of a privileged existence. And when I had my fill I’d submerge myself in I spent most of the summer harboring a nasty little bug named the lake and begin my swim, feeling a sense of guilt for turning my back Escherichia Coli in my gut from my twice-a-week swims in a geese to the romance above and accepting the dullness of the murky water as infested lake. Bouts of nausea were all too common. Still, I’d rather take my fate for the next hour. But a body in motion is a beautiful thing (well,

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maybe not my body) and somewhere in that lake I grew a fondness for pulling myself through the water. But I’ve digressed into sincerity. The truth is my head is so large I often felt like I was trying to keep a cinder block above water. Often, after my swim, I’d take my head and ride the farm country of Fruita. The nice thing about biking is that you get to sit down. For a runner it’s quite a treat. But it also means that three and four hour rides were required to achieve the perfect blend of hard-body and crotch-numbness. The contradiction here is obvious. Now, I once read a book called the Loneliness of a Long Distance Runner, but it paled in comparison to my experience as the Lonely Long Distance Biker. People often asked me what I thought about when I was out there for so many hours. I told them the truth: getting off, especially after Ray finished Ironman Canada leaving me to train by myself for the final month. Still, there were moments when I felt my body change, morph into a new being, lean and hard. It was then that I could rise up out of my seat and push a bigger gear up an incline, visions of Lance Armstrong riding up the L’Alpe d’Huez danced in my head. Fantasy comes easily on the bike and I gave in. There were rides that took me over the red egg that is the Colorado National Monument, the green monster that is the Grand Mesa, and through the intoxicating fragrance of the Palisade vineyards. Others took me from the parch, stale valley upward through the junipers and pinions that dot the Colorado Plateau to the pines of the high country which offered up sweeping views of the San Juan and La Sal mountains, snow covered and distant, all of which left me satisfied and depleted. And then there were rides that left me listless, bored, and wanting more time at home with my wife and dogs. Regardless, each ride worked to strengthen my abilities where at some point in mid-summer I knew what it meant to have my cycling legs, something I was truly grateful for since my early training months had left me embarrassed. My first cycling race was the Elam Classic, a fifty mile out and back travesty. For this race I’d purchased a big red helmet which reflected a big red sunrise, warning of an impending explosion to its rider. There were only ten others in the Citizen’s category and I wondered where they were as I led them out the first several miles. The benefits of drafting never occurred to me and for several minutes I had a false sense of talent since the other riders appeared to be hanging on to my rear wheel. Then the course turned upward on Nine-Mile Hill and everyone flew by me like a flock of birds, all in a line on each other’s wheels. I felt like such a fool, riding the remaining forty-seven miles by myself. Several months later when I felt my body adapt to the bike and my legs were strong and I understood how to ride, I wanted revenge. While I never had an opportunity to race any of the ten who schooled me that day, I took it out on other competitors in other races. The feeling of blowing by someone on a bike is as gratifying an experience as I’ve ever known. But here again, I digress into sincerity. Biking was fun, when necessary, but mostly it was much more time consuming than a runner can withstand. Fortunately, my skills improved throughout the summer and at some point I became more competitive on the bike leg of triathlon than on the run, the last leg. Well, sort of. A runner’s perspective about triathlon is that we’re going to jump off the bike and pummel everyone on the run – because that’s what we do. Of course the problem with this has everything to do with the six or seven hours of exercise leading up to the run, at least in an ironman distance triathlon. So I’m not convinced we have much of an advantage in the big picture. During Ultramax I was forced to walk much of the marathon because the bike had depleted me so greatly. A seasoned biker whose legs are accustomed to long rides might have a better shot of running faster than a first-sport runner. I detest mile-by-mile recounts of races from others, most likely because my attention span is fantastically short, so I’ll spare you the sordid details of the Ultramax. Besides, I’d rather understand what brings a person to the precipice of any given moment, what motivates him, what he hopes to find in the quest and how he will use that experience to move on. In motive lies the journey and in journey lies the truth. And other than the Johnnie Cochrans of the world isn’t that what we’re all trying to find

– truth? My motivation was simple: I wanted to know what it felt like to cover a hundred and forty miles in competition, to feel so alive in a single day that it would both bring me to tears and make me laugh. Anything that would reveal that kind of truth was worth pursuing. There was also the hidden prize of not really knowing if I could finish. What if the pain was too great? What if my body shut down? But my feeling about the day is this: the experience wasn’t so much about pain as it was suffering. I associate pain with an anaerobic activity like running a one-mile race or stubbing your toe. On the other hand, suffering is Recker makes it to the finish. ongoing, debilitating, and uncomfortable, like riding coach on a trans-Atlantic flight on United Airlines, your knees tucked up under your chin, a child kicking the back of your seat, the anticipation of yet another person sneezing on you, and a bag of pretzels tossed at you as your only entertainment for twelve hours. In the end, however, the accomplishment trumps all, and just like that horrible plane ride you eventually arrive having covered an enormous distance, and step onto new land and a brand new world. I’ve been asked if I’ll enter another ironman and for the first month I was fairly certain this runner would not. But as time passes the need for redemption rises in me as it does with all athletes looking to improve on their performances and perfect their art. This thing is in me now and though its importance in my life is still unclear I get the Teary Eyes every time I look at the video of that day. To pretend it had no meaning is just that. I believe that only those athletes who have completed an IDT fully understand what I’m talking about and the swell of emotion that I find crippling at times. My training partner, Ray, said it best after he had returned from his completion of Ironman Canada. “No matter what anyone tells you, you’re going to have some different and unique feelings. There are things in my head I don’t share, not because they’re top secret but because I know they really only apply to me. You’ll have them too. Take in the day, the experience. That’s what stays with us.” So, even if my vocabulary falls short of describing my ascension to the world of triathlon, my ankle reveals my accomplishment. On it is a tattoo of an M-dot. It’s a big red M with a big red dot above it, outlined in thin, black ink. It’s been there for three months and it still scales on occasion, as if it didn’t take, and I feel that’s appropriate to my experience with the ironman distance triathlon. I’m not sure if it took. I promised Ray we’d have beers in the fall and discuss what the experience meant to one another, but like any education, it’s ongoing and impossible to sum up in one sitting. Fortunately there are many choices of beer out there and many of them have adoptive countries. So, we’ll just have to find the one that tastes best and figure out if its adoptive country hosts an IDT. And that might serve as my next calling. Despite advice from family and friends, author Jeff Recker has already signed up for his next Iron Man distance triathlon. He has chosen his official training beer and bought a new bike on Ebay... but he has yet to start training.

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Coloradans Help Team USA at World Cross Country Championships

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ith help from Boulder’s Ann Marie BrooksSchwabe and Molly Austin, the Team USA senior women’s squad placed fifth in the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Brussels, Belgium. The race was held on Saturday, March 20 under cloudy skies with temperatures in the low 50s. Competitors also had to deal with breezy conditions with a steady drizzle. The moisture caused the course to become wet and slippery.

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Kate O’Neill of New Haven, Connecticut was the top American finisher, placing 15th in the 8K. Colorado’s Ann Marie Brooks-Schwabe placed 31st in 29:05. “I thought that it went really well. I love the course, with the mud and the sharp turns. This was a true cross country course, and it was amazing. This was the best cross country experience I’ve ever had.” Boulder’s Molly Austin placed 79th in 31:00. “The lesson I learned today is to keep my head up… it has to get better. It’s an honor to even come here and run against this kind of competition.” Team USA’s men’s short course squad finished seventh in the team competition with help from three Colorado runners. Sandy Rebenciuc of Lafayette finished the 4K in 46th in 12:23, Jared Cordes of Colorado Springs was 48th in 12:24 and Isaiah Festa of Colorado Springs placed 60th in 12: 30. After the race Cordes said, “I kinda started in the middle and had to work my way back up. I don’t think I finished that strong. It didn’t feel like the best race I’ve had, unfortunately.” Isaiah Festa added, “I got out in the top 20 and then I fell back aways and after that I just tried to regroup and move up as best I could. This is my first international experience and I learned a lot. Now I’ll go home and get ready to run the steeplechase on the track.” Sandy Rebenciuc said, “The mud definitely makes this a tough race. The chutes were kind of narrow. I’m happy to have scored and helped the team.” Amber Harper of Provo, Utah led Team USA’s junior women’s team, as they equaled their best ever placing at the World Cross Country Championships by finishing fourth in the team competition with 120 points. On the second day of competition, the Junior Men were the first to hit the course. Team

women’s short course competition, Janet Trujillo of Superior, Colorado placed 77th in 14:57. “The hills affected me right in the beginning,” Trujillo said, “but I’m glad that four people scored, and I was rooting for my team from back there. “ 2000 Olympian Abdi Abdirahman of Tucson, Arizona led Team USA’s 12K men’s squad to an 11th place finish by placing 34th. Joshua Eberly of Gunnison, Colorado placed 108th in 41:03. “I definitely started out too quick. After about 1K I started to feel the lactic acid and then it was tough. It was a good experience and I’m still young, I just turned 23. Hopefully next year I’ll improve and step up.”

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last loop. I got passed by about 10 guys, but for the most part I felt tremendous out there and it’s the best I’ve ever felt.” Boulder’s Pete Janson placed 55th in the 8K, running 27:03. “They went out really fast. I’ve never seen anything like that before. A lot of guys got out fast and I think that was a good thing. I went out kind of slow. That was my strategy hoping that some people would come back.” Ian Burrell of Colorado Springs placed 81st. Sunday’s races were held under mostly sunny skies with temperatures in the 50s. Stiff winds provided a challenge to the competitors, along with slippery and muddy conditions due to Saturday’s rainfall. In the

Ryan Deak led the Junior Men’s Team to a seventh place finish. USA was led to a seventh place finish in the team competition by Aurora prep standout Ryan Deak. “It went perfect. I got a great start,” said Deak who finished 34th in 26:27. “I didn’t feel like I was going fast at all, but I was ahead of some Kenyans, so I relaxed to the 1K point. About the 6K mark I got a horrible cramp in the side of my stomach and that totally killed my

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Avoiding Injury

When Time Off Isn’t Enough by Timothy Hilden

If an injury has you on the sidelines, you may need to do more than just take time off. Sometimes an expert needs to be called to the rescue. And whether you have to fix your training program or change your running style, the right advice can get you back on your feet a little faster. For many runners, the time eventually

comes when injury places them on the sidelines. The initial time-off, although frustrating, typically is essential for proper treatment of the injury. For some, the time-off may even provide a much-needed respite from an overzealous training program. However, when an injury persists and treatment options appear to be exhausted, the recommendation of more time-off can become an intolerable and sometimes inappropriate solution for the runner. At this point, prior treatment history should be re-examined to determine whether adequate attention was given to assessing the cause of symptoms rather than just treating the symptoms.

Most running related injuries have

some mechanical component tied to the onset or persistence of the injury. If a runner’s bony/ structural alignment and gait mechanics are not assessed, improper treatment and continued restriction from running can occur. Some individuals have an alignment that genetically predisposes them to injury. You can treat the symptoms of that injury but they will always have problems if you do not address the cause. If the front-end alignment of your car is toed-in, you can change tires as often as you want but the problem will not go away.

Because

changing one’s bony alignment with surgery is typically not the option of choice, there are often ways to accommodate for the mechanical problem either passively (i.e., orthotics/insert modification, different shoe design) or actively (i.e., gait technique modification, improved dynamic control against faulty movement patterns). Some individuals will have good structural alignment but display faulty gait technique that causes injury. In this situation, changing how the individual runs is a primary focus. Competitive success does not necessarily mean a runner utilizes good mechanics of running. Those that are successful 18

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despite faulty mechanics typically have a great engine and are structurally tolerant to repetitive non-optimal loading. Thus, emulating a successful runner’s gait may not be in your best interest.

The ideal way to determine if your

gait mechanics are faulty is to undergo a gait analysis. This process includes a frame-by frame video analysis of your gait while running on a treadmill. Each detail of your mechanics is scrutinized and a plan is developed to manage the problem. Every gait analysis should include a running related physical evaluation to identify issues that contribute to faulty mechanics. Two runners may have the same mechanical gait fault but it can result from different combinations of structural mal-alignment, joint limitation, weakness, and lack of dynamic control over a movement pattern. As a result, a gait analysis should be a thorough process investigating every crucial aspect of your structure and movement that can contribute to injury.

Thankfully, there tend to be common

patterns of faulty gait mechanics that lead to injury. The majority of injuries will typically fall within four to five different patterns. Changing the cause of the injury often relies on making subtle changes in gait mechanics/technique. The transition should occur over a period of weeks so that the body can accommodate. Although the changes are made to decrease strain while running, the body still needs to get used to the new way of moving. Contrary to what you may think, changing the technique of your gait is not difficult. It may feel weird initially but with proper instruction and practice, the changes will become automatic.

When trying to determine the cause

of an injury, a runner’s training program also should be evaluated. Regardless of whether you are a weekend warrior or an internationally competitive runner, inappropriate progression

of running volume and speed-work are the two training program variables most related to injury. I often work with individuals transitioning from the 10K to half or full marathons. The increased training volume required for this transition can exploit an otherwise dormant predisposition to injury. While some runners may never tolerate the training demands of half or full marathon participation, many just need tailored guidance in the development of an appropriate training program. This guidance should not come from your running buddy or local running “hero”. Developing a medically-based training program is a critical component of your recovery and requires the expertise of an exercise physiologist or coach specifically trained to understand the complexities of customizing this type of training program. This process requires a close collaboration between coach and athlete if optimal success is to be achieved.

Not all running injuries need the

type of detailed investigation I have outlined above. Sometimes a little time off can go a long way. When that doesn’t work, don’t settle for “just take a little more time-off”. Although gait and training program analyses do not guarantee that you will run pain-free, these treatment approaches can help you identify the cause of the pain, which in turn increases the odds that you will be able to establish a game plan to manage the problem. Timothy Hilden is a physical therapist, athletic trainer and exercise physiologist at the Boulder Center for Sports Medicine.

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The Fast Lane

Culpepper Stuns Competitors to Win Bronze at the World Indoors

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ust four weeks after her husband won the Men’s U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials, Shayne Culpepper of Lafayette had her chance to shine on the indoor track circuit. First, Shayne won the 3,000 meter race at the USA Track and Field Indoor Championships in Boston, posting a time of 9:00.59. Then, she traveled to Budapest, Hungary to compete in the IAAF World Indoor Track and Field Championships.

Culpepper provided the surprise performance of the meet. The University of Colorado grad barely made the final, grabbing the last qualifying spot based on her time in the preliminary round of the 3,000 meters. She had been sorely disappointed with her performance and was surprised that she even made the final. But, as the race got underway, it played to the strengths of the 2000 Olympian at 1,500 meters. She made the most of it, tactically capitalizing on a slow pace that saw the pack come through a 5:15 first mile. She moved from near the back of the pack to mid-pack with 500 meters to go, then made her big move, into third, with 300 meters to go. Culpepper surged ahead of Marta Dominguez of Spain and Yelena Zadorozhnaya of Russia in the final lap. On the backstretch, Zadorozhnaya clipped Culpepper from behind. After stumbling, Culpepper regained her composure and sprinted to the finish in 9:12.15. The effort was good enough for the bronze medal. Shayne was only bested by Ethiopians Meseret Defar, the world junior 3,000 and 5,000 champion, and Berhane Adere, the reigning world outdoor 10,000 meter champion. “I’m freaking out!” Culpepper said after the race, “I tactically did really well. I just covered everyone’s moves and tried to stay on the inside. I felt horrible in the prelim. It was a goal of mine to do well here in Europe. I didn’t want to leave my family (husband Alan and two-year-old son Cruz), come all the way here, and not do well. The support of the people on the team, especially Carrie Tollefson, Mary Jayne Harrelson and Jenelle Deatherage, they truly carried me through the last 24 hours. I started to get really down. I talked to Alan and Cruz yesterday, but my teammates and staff really supported me.” Culpepper’s inspiring bronze medal closed out the competition for Team USA. The medal was one of only five medals earned by the team. Shayne’s training for the year is focusing on the upcoming U.S. Olympic Trials. She hopes to make a second Olympic team. At the last Olympic Trials in 2000, she finished fourth in the 1500. Culpepper was only placed on the team roster after Regina Jacobs Culpepper wins the national 3,000 meter title quit the team because of an illness. Culpepper’s personal best of and advances to the Worlds 4:07:99 beat the Olympics ‘A’ standard by just .01 seconds. At the Olympic Games in Sydney, she ran to a ninth place finish at the first round of the 1500 meter race, posting a time of 4:12.52. For Shayne, the rise to elite status in running took awhile. She competed in gymnastics for 10 years. She ran cross country and track in high school, but never qualified for a state meet, only running about 15 miles a week. She went to college in Vermont on a partial athletic scholarship and became the school’s best runner by her sophomore year. She transferred to the University of Colorado in Boulder, her parent’s alma mater, after spending a summer working at a resort in Estes Park. She walked onto the CU cross country team and by the time she graduated, she was a Big 12 champion and an All-American in the 3,000 meters. She married distance runner Alan Culpepper a year later and the two now live with their son Cruz in Lafayette. 20

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Training Smarts

Getting Back in the Game by Dr. Ken Sheridan

espite our best efforts, injuries can creep into our lives from time to time. So, what do we do? Go to the doctor, take anti-inflammatories, and don’t run for three to four weeks. But for many of us, this is not an option (already bought plane tickets for the Chicago Marathon, etc.). Running injuries are “overuse injuries” rather than “traumatic injuries”. Traumatic injuries are usually the result of a single, large force causing acute trauma, like a sprained ankle. These usually cause an immediate halt of activity and a long limp home. Overuse injuries come on more slowly and are due to repeated “microtrauma”. Running produces approximately 1500 footfalls per mile, at a force of three to five times your body weight. This repetitive stress on our tissues can overcome the body’s ability to recover and injury occurs. Overuse injuries typically begin with pain towards the end of, or up to several hours after your longer runs or more intense exercise bouts, such as speed sessions. As you continue to exercise, the pain is present more frequently, lasts longer between training sessions and begins to affect your ability to train. Examples of such injuries are plantar fascitis, shin splints, IT band friction syndrome, and runner’s knee. In this author’s humble opinion, if you go to a “sports medicine specialist” for treatment of your sports related injury, they should provide you with alternative forms of training while reducing direct stress on your injured tissues. This “active rest” has proven to decrease the deconditioning which accompanies cessation of exercise, and has been shown to

speed healing of the injured area. Such training options will provide the following: 1. Enable you to maintain your aerobic base (keep your wind up) while your tissues heal 2. Help prevent you from returning to training too soon, risking re-injury 3. Provide the steps necessary to return to activity, with consistent feedback, thereby reducing the risk of re-injury 4. Cross training exercises stabilize the assisting musculature, creating better balance throughout your body, which can lead to greater running efficiency 5. Provide a stress release valve, which will maintain your sanity and the sanity of the ones you love Consider all the activities listed in the chart below as a continuum that can be used to return to running. You can gradually work your way up to a 30 to 45 minute session. At that point, use that activity as a 10-minute warm up, then do intervals (2 minutes/2 minutes) of that activity with the next higher number in the chart. As you progress, decrease the time spent in the lower # and increase the time in the higher # (activity), say 3 minutes/1 minute. Continue to progress up the chart until you’re back to running. Notice I did not say anything about the time between progressions. This varies with the individual patient, and with my big doctor brain, I have devised an intricate system called trial and error. We try to push the envelope in getting someone back to full activity ASAP without injury recurrence, a medical term

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HR Intensity – 60 to 85% Pros – Less pounding on tissues; Specific to running motion; Uniform resistance throughout range of motion both forward and back Cons – Inconvenient; Not specific to running speed which will effect neuromuscular recruitment patterns Conditions – Safe for everyone

HR Intensity – 60 to 85% Pros – Works hips, knees and ankles without the pounding; Same sagittal plane (forward/back) movement of running Cons – Does not train the core muscles enough for running; Can be rough on people with lower back and neck pain Conditions – Plantar fasciitis, Runner’s knee (raise the seat), IT band syndrome, Shin splints

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known as “tweakage”. We also take into account the patient’s individual goals and the time frame for a particular event. Dr. Ken Sheridan is a local road and trail runner who enjoys competing in a variety of events, from marathons to duathlons. He practices at Active Care Chiropractic and Rehab in Golden. To ask him your injury questions, call 303-2790320.

4. ELLIPTICAL MACHINE HR Intensity – 60 to 85% Pros – More specific and uses the same muscles as the running motion without the pounding; Can work arms concurrently Cons – May not prepare the muscles of the lower leg to withstand the pounding of running; May bother runner’s knee Conditions – Plantar fasciitis, Shin splints

5. WALKING HR Intensity – Yes, walking! Pros – Specificity similar to running, without the pounding; Used intermittently with run intervals to retrain tissues Cons – Less stress on the aerobic system (less cardiovascular training) Conditions – Safe for everyone, except people with acute shin splints and plantar fasciitis

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Red Hot Fat Ass 50K Moab, UT February 14, 2004 43 Finishers By Jana Gustman

views. Further on, we ran beneath the dramatic Pritchett Arch on our way into sandy Hunter’s Canyon. The twisting single track took us in and out of Moab’s famous red slabby rocks. I left a piece of my running tights out there somewhere when I inadvertently slammed into a bush. Once out of Hunter’s Canyon, we were approaching the trickiest part of the 50K - the descent into Gatherer Canyon. The single track was narrow and slippery with ice and snow. Falling wasn’t an option. Ian and company took great care in marking the easiest way down. Volunteers were also positioned in the two iciest spots to help runners from one ledge to the next. Once at the bottom of the canyon, we were spit out onto a dirt road covered with a layer of ice, where the first aid station had been set up. Because this was a no fee, no frills event, I was expecting paper cups and a few jugs of water. Instead, runners were treated to a moveable feast with energy gels, chips, and Valentine’s Day chocolates. From the aid station, we continued up the road to Hurrah Pass. After running in narrow canyons for the previous 10 miles, it

was strange to suddenly be in a sandy, arid desert-like environment. I soon forgot about the climb once I saw the spectacular views of the Colorado River corridor. Runners were also rewarded with an easy descent on a 4WD road. In what seemed like the middle of nowhere was another well-stocked aid station with cheerful volunteers. We continued down the sandy wash past the aid station towards Camelot. Unfortunately, I didn’t see a single camel. After running nearly a marathon, the course took us up “Jacob’s Ladder,” a steep 500-vertical foot climb up a slick rock face. The view was unbelievable. From there, we were home free. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

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Two Feet ofForSnow Wiggy’s Fun Run

The runners posed for a picture at the start of the race.

Wiggy’s Fun Run Silverton, CO February 29, 2004 15 Finishers By Marc Witkes

t dumped 27-inches of snow on Coal Bank Hill and Molas Pass along the race route in southwestern Colorado the day before the 12th Annual Wiggy’s Fun Run, but the storm did little to dampen the spirits of an enthusiastic crowd of fifteen runners. This “fun” run is more like a marathon. Runners start at Cascade Village, just north of Durango Mountain Ski Resort, and run 20 miles over two mountain passes above 10,000 feet on Highway 550, before finishing the run at the Explorer’s Club in Silverton. As president of Durango Motorless Transit running club, I am in charge of all the “fun” for this event. I was away from home working all day on February 28, but when I arrived home early in the evening, I listened to the barrage of messages on my answering service. “Are we doing the run tomorrow?” Gerry Geraghty asked. I called people back and gave them 26

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the critical information. “If the passes are open, we’ll run. If they are closed, the run is off,” I said. Coal Bank Hill and Molas Pass had been closed all day due to the classic, southwest Colorado, almost-spring blizzard. Dedicated snowplow crews who risk their lives to keep the road open worked well into mid-evening and the passes were finally opened at 10 p.m. Sunday morning phone calls dribbled in from sleepy-heads praying that they could get out of their self-made commitment. “The run is off, right?” Keith Baker asked. “Sorry, we’re on,” I gleefully answered. I’ve done this run many times but with a fractured sesamoid bone, I was only scheduled to drive support this year. I arrived at the Cascade Village 15minutes before the run was scheduled to start and was delighted to find 15 hearty souls ready to run. They wore gloves, hats, balaclavas and jackets. They also carried food and water in their fanny packs. Even though we might have a support driver or two each year, this run is promoted as “No fee, no aid, no wimps, no transportation.” Promise them nothing but give them a little has been my other theme for this

run. No expectations, no disappointments and no disgruntled runners. “The run starts in five-minutes,” I hollered to cold and deaf ears. Runners sauntered over and I snapped the obligatory pre-race picture in front of the Cascade Village sign. A large snowplow went by scraping its large metal blade on the ground and I said, “Three-two-one, go!” The run starts with a 1/4 mile downhill teaser section. No one complained. Runners began climbing six miles to the top of Coal Bank Hill, immediately after the tease. There were a few grunts and otherwise indeterminable sounds from people’s cold, shrunk vocal chords. I waited 30 minutes to start driving over the passes. Most runners would not reach Coal Bank for at least an hour. I drove by runners on the way up the pass and signaled with a short, friendly beep of the horn. “You doing OK?” I hollered out the rolled-down window. My wife, Cathy TibbettsWitkes, was participating in her first Wiggy’s Fun Run. She smiled as I waved. Tough as nails, I knew she’d do great. Vic Rudolph and Tom Ober made the summit first and ran off before I could even say hello. “How much fun are you having?” I hollered at the next runner, who had icicles hanging from his face. “As much fun as possible,” the runner yelled back. The sun came out, the snow started to melt off the streets and most runners turned up the corners of their lips and put on a smile. All runners finished the wicked course that includes approximately 3,000 feet of elevation gain. This event is strictly fun and no times and places were kept. However, to keep things in perspective, the first runners finished in a little under three hours. Back-of the-packers took well over four hours to finish. Yes, Wiggy’s Fun Run was a blast and if you are in the Durango area next year on the last Sunday in February, you, too, can join in. See you next year! Marc Witkes, aka “Wiggy”, his grammar-school nickname, is a runner and free-lance writer in Durango.

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Edwards Tops Women And Men in 5K

Beaver Creek Snowshoe Series #3 10K/5K February 21, 2004 Beaver Creek, CO Finishers: 10K - 81, 5K - 212 By Amy Hornyak

boy’s field.

Eagle’s Anita Ortiz claimed her second of three 10K wins at the third Beaver Creek Snowshoe Adventure Series race with a time of 1:02:05. Ortiz had a comfortable lead over fellow competitors Helen Cospolich of Breckenridge and Syl Corbett of Boulder. Silt’s Bernie Boettcher took the men’s 10K win in 52:12, with rivals Mike Kloser of Vail and Charlie Wertheim of Glenwood Springs on his heels. “It was a battle of a race out there,” Mike Kloser said. “Bernie, Charlie and I have a fun rivalry. Bernie just got the best of us today.” Besting all 5K racers - men and women - was Boulder’s Laurie Edwards. She took top honors in 26:26. Silt’s Dennis Webb was the first male across the finish line. Bailey’s Karen Opp claimed the women’s “Dash for Cash” 100-yard sprint, while Bryan Gunnarson of Longmont was the fastest in the men’s sprint field. Gunnarson’s daughter Breanna captured the girl’s Kids K, while Mike Kloser’s son Christian bested the

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Male Overall 10K Bernie Boettcher Mike Kloser Charlie Wertheim Travis Macy Garett Gravbins

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Female Overall 10K Anita Ortiz 1:02:05 Helen Cospolich 1:04:24 Syl Corbett 1:05:53 Lisa Isom 1:08:31 Sara Tarkington 1:10:52

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Male Overall 5K Dennis Webb Tom Solawertz Thomas Witman Christian Fuller Michael Ricci Rick Schmelzer Craig Weidl David Haar Patrick Giefer Brandon Jozwiak

26:46 27:02 27:21 27:40 28:06 28:12 28:56 29:10 29:26 29:34

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Female Overall 5K Laurie Edwards Heidi Vosbeck Vicky Keleske Melanie Ricci Amanda Ewing Amanda Evans Erica Davis Amanda Brummer Nikki Cole Christina Schleicher

26:26 28:17 29:15 29:59 30:15 31:12 31:24 31:57 32:17 32:21

52:12 53:08 53:11 55:38 55:47

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Laurie Edwards is the first to the finish line in the Snowshoe 5K

Boulder Women Shine at President’s Day 5K President’s Day 5K Washington Park, Denver, CO February 22, 2004 Finishers: 220 - Run, 31 - Walk Full Results at www.bkbltd.com

Patty Murray runs a blazing 17:24

ost of the time if a woman runs 19:01 in a 5K road race, you would expect her to win. Golden’s Valerie Friedman ran exactly that time at the 2004 President’s Day 5K and finished only third. There just happened to be two Olympic Trials Marathon qualifiers from Boulder in the field. Patty Murray and Katie Blackett had come down to test their fitness six weeks prior to the trials. As the gun sounded on this perfect Sunday morning, Patty Murray quickly separated herself from the field. Blackett tried to stay close, but was unable to hold Murray’s cadence. Murray would end up running one of the fastest times ever run at the Washington Park course (17:24). Blackett would also break 18:00 in finishing second (17:56). Friedman (19:01) and Heather Burcar of Golden (19:13) followed. On the men’s side, Tim Luchinsice, of Lafayette coasted to an easy win (16:22) with Geoff Douglas of Laramie (16:32) ten seconds back. Jim Hallberg (17:13) of Denver and Austin Thompson (17:21) of Evergreen battled for two miles before Hallberg pulled ahead. The President’s Day 5K was the fourth race in the BKB Holiday Series. The series raised funds to benefit to Kipture Primary School Kitchen and Library Foundation. To learn more about the foundation, read the article

“Building A Dream” on page 46. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

Male Overall Run Tim Luchinsice Geoff Douglas Jim Hallberg Austin Thompson Jeff Keil Andre Raveling Brian Glotzbach Salim Haji Alex Perry Thomas Russ Charles Schultz Steve Becker Scott Nalbach Gregory Tyndall Scott Ptolemy

16:22 16:32 17:13 17:21 17:26 18:27 18:34 18:43 18:58 19:04 19:06 19:09 19:17 19:19 19:27

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Female Overall Run Patty Murry Katie Blackett Valerie Friedman Heather Burcar Ann Lantz Jennifer Jageman Micol Rothman Sheila Haggerty Bobbie Hickman Carrie Strand Lilac Ezer Breann Westmore Clare Hiatt Jennifer Rogers Beverly Wagoner

17:24 17:56 19:01 19:13 20:40 21:47 22:08 24:24 24:54 25:02 25:04 25:14 25:23 25:37 25:48

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Male Overall Walk Daryl Meyers 30:23 Neil Horton 35:10 Robert McGuire 36:05

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Female Overall Walk Marlene Graff 30:35 Miranda Grum 36:24 Cindie Mearsha 36:39

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Record Field at Pueblo’s Spring Runoff

Mike Wasson and Gordon Birdsall earn 2nd and 3rd in the 10 Mile. Pueblo Spring Runoff Pueblo CO March 7, 2004 621 Finishers: 48 - Youth Mile, 113 - 2 Mile Walk, 228 - 5K, 126 - 10K, 96 - 10 Mile

A record crowd of eager runners lined up for the 26th annual Spring Runoff under sunny skies and mild temperatures. As one of the first races of the spring season, the Runoff attracts runners from across the state. It offers a variety of distances: 1 Mile Youth Run, a 2 Mile Walk, a 5K Run, a 10K and a 10 Mile. At the sound of the starting gun, more than 600 runners took to the course. The 5K runners were the first through the finisher’s chute. Smokey Hill High School senior Ryan Deak ran 5-minute miles to make it to the tape in 15:32. Deak ran the Runoff as a tune-up for his upcoming trip to Belgium with the USA Junior Team. Veteran Shelia Greere of Colorado Springs was the first woman to cross the finish line in 19:10. Steve Cathcart came down from Fort Collins to help his race director dad stage the run. It was worth the trip for the Runner’s Roost Fort Collins owner as he clocked a 34:47 to win the 10K. Emily Borrego led the women’s field in 45:49. 35-year-old Paul Koch of Colorado Springs won the men’s 10 Mile in 28

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57:58. It was the first time that Koch had won the race. Finishing just three minutes back, Olympic Trails Marathon Qualifier Heather Marie Hunt of Englewood ran 1:01:04 to place fourth overall and first female. 11-year-old Aaron Diaz ran a 6: 39 mile to finish first in the “It’s Fun to be a Runner” Youth Mile and Pueblo’s Veronica Romero-Romo won the 2 Mile Walk. The race is sponsored by the Pueblo Chieftain and organized by the Southern Colorado Runners. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Male Overall 10M Paul Koch 57:57 Mike Wasson 59:23 Gordon Birdsall 59:24 Bob Langenhoven 1:04:25 Dave McCone 1:06:33

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Female Overall 10M Heather Marie Hunt 1:01:04 Tracy Stewart 1:06:39 Katherine Dvorsky 1:12:30 Lisa McCone 1:13:45 Traci Dworshak 1:15:22

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Male Overall 10K Steve Cathcart Jonathan Huie Alan Davidson Gerald Romero Matt Connors Lawrence Volk Scott Nalbach Bob Simmons Anthony Silva Elliot Sanders

Female Overall 10K Emily Borrego 45:49

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Desiree Guardia Kathy Hruby Lori Winner Kelly Hale Catherine Gomez Teri Fox Cathy Osban Jennifer Alvarado Sarah Felt

47:39 48:06 50:41 51:35 51:41 52:37 53:18 53:41 54:58

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Male Overall 5K Ryan Deak Adam Rich Shawn Borton Regis Marquez Aaron Sever Chuck Smead Lile Budden Mike Trujillo Seth Withrow Mark Riem Jeff Roybal Matt McIntyre Brian Ropp Eugene Muniz Rudy Baca

15:32 16:24 18:07 18:18 18:21 18:26 18:28 18:46 19:00 19:20 19:32 19:54 19:59 20:05 20:07

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Female Overall 5K Sheila Geere Amanda Ewing Desiree Romero Ashlee Withrow Katie Couch Anne Wilbar Amy Williams Jen Wackell Andrea Stimpson Deb Anderson Jennifer Rogers Carey Moreschini Elisha Tucci Kerri Lonnberg Mary Simmons

19:12 20:01 23:07 24:05 25:02 25:17 25:26 25:30 25:30 25:50 25:51 26:13 26:14 26:19 26:20

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Male Overall 2M Walk Sidney Arnold 21:31 Mike Cook 21:39 Dale Doone 21:48

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Female Overall 2M Walk Veronica Romo 21:28 Donna Hickman 22:08 Amy Kunstle 23:06

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Steve Cathcart wins the 10K.

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5K Run & Parade in Colorado Springs Is A Hit

5K On St. Patrick’s Day Colorado Springs, CO March 13, 2004 902 Finishers

ore than 900 runners lined up to toast the Irish for the 21st 5K on St. Patrick’s Day in Colorado Springs. Festive runners arrived on race morning with green hats, green tights and even green skirts. If you forgot to dress in a little green, there were face painters on hand to draw four-leaf clovers on your cheeks. The race had a carnival-like atmosphere with food booths lining the course and vendors walking through the crowds, selling green balloons and shamrock-bead necklaces. There were quite a few young fans on hand to cheer on the runners, and then watch the post-race St. Patty’s Day parade - the second oldest parade in the region. Runners were treated to mild temperatures and partly cloudy skies at the race start. They zipped past the shops and restaurants lining Colorado Avenue. The 5K is fairly flat, helping runners post fast early-season 5K times. The luck of the Irish was with Justin Chaston who beat the men’s field in a blazing 14:31. Anthony Surage was the first master in 17:08. In the women’s race, lucky leprechauns chased Stacey Chaston to the finish line in 17:18 for the victory. Shelia Geere won the master’s title in 18:41. The 5K was the first race of the Colorado Springs Grand Prix of Running and also the first run in the Colorado Runner Racing Series. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33.

Male Overall Justin Chaston Nelson Laux Greg Augspurger Adam Rich Jason Hodgson Adolfo Carrillo Matthew Kowalski Joe Fogarty Steve Hackworth Jeffery Prata Gordon Birdsall Antonio Eppolito John Phillips Mike Wasson Ben Flora Paul Koch Steve Moon Anthony Surage Tyler Hedges Robert Yara Gerald Romero Andy Rinne Aaron Sever Matt Connors Tommy Morphet Chad Halsten Rich Treden Rich Hadley Nathan McCrary Lile Budden Woody Noleen Rob Gilliam Thaddeus Noll

14:31 14:52 15:16 15:32 15:34 15:40 15:43 16:01 16:06 16:24 16:28 16:37 16:50 16:54 16:59 17:06 17:07 17:08 17:17 17:21 17:22 17:31 17:32 17:34 17:38 17:40 17:47 17:49 17:54 17:56 18:06 18:16 18:20

34. Mike Valentine 35. Rick Shoulberg 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35.

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Female Overall Stacey Chaston Jen Michel Michelle Lee Kelly Handel Sheila Geere Cindy O’Neill Jodi Day Kelly Moon Shannon Meredith Fay Slattery Kristi Strizich Maddy Tormoen Joni Caverly Tracy Perfors Danielle Fleming Ashlee Withrow Emily Adcox Kricka Kastner Traci Yamada Lori Flint Carrie Adams Lauren Frith Elizabeth Atkins Claudia Lloyd Penny Bergsten Autumn Good Lexi Miller Sandra Miller Caroline Kennett Kate Hendrickson Anna Message Elizabeth Jones Catherine Waller Bonnie Imperiale Shelly Bailey

17:14 17:30 17:38 18:01 18:41 19:03 19:10 19:26 19:32 19:34 19:55 20:28 20:43 20:51 21:05 21:20 21:25 21:37 21:41 21:45 21:49 21:56 22:03 22:19 22:30 22:33 22:33 22:36 22:41 22:48 22:53 22:54 22:56 22:58 23:03

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He MUST be Irish!

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The First Day of Spring Brought Record Heat at the Canyonlands Half Marathon

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overall to win the masters race in 1:14:06 and Yvonne Joyce was the first female masters runner in 1:31:47. In the five mile race, John Weswah won in 26:32. Durango resident Brianne Lippoldt improved on her fourth place finish last year to win this year’s race in 30:41. Masters winners were Jeff Recker in 31:50, and Linda Bunk in 39:22. For complete results go to www.timberlinetiming.com

Leanne Whitesides Wins the Half

Canyonlands Half Marathon Moab, UT March 20, 2004 2,592 Finishers Half Marathon 849 Finishers 5 Mile by Jeff Recker

n what remains the cruelest joke in running, this race finishes just yards from the town mortuary. On this day, when temperatures crept well into the 80’s, the lucky ones were those inside – chilled. For those still living had to endure record temperatures on their way to finishing the half marathon and accompanying five mile race. “This was supposed to be the first day of spring but it felt like the middle of summer,” said Leanne Whitesides, the women’s winner of the half marathon. Everyone suffered, especially on 191 where the road exits the pristine beauty of the red walled canyon two miles from the finish. It’s there that runners have to share a busy highway that offers no shade, a slight incline, and an abundance of diesel fumes from semi-trucks passing through Moab. It’s a horrible finish to a beautiful race and runners often talk about that stretch of road that seems “endless and unforgiving.” No records were broken this year but, as always, this race proved to be one of the most competitive events in the region. In the half marathon, men’s winner Joseph Wilson broke the tape in 1:09:41. Leanne Whitesides improved on her third place finish last year to win in 1:21:55. Gordon Hyde finished third 30

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Male Overall Half Marathon 1. Joseph Wilson 1:09:41 2. Neal Gassman 1:12:58 3. Gordon Hyde 1:14:06 4. Jerry Henley 1:15:47 5. Ronald Greenwood 1:16:10 6. Paul Peterson 1:17:35 7. Autumn King 1:17:39 8. Erik Packard 1:17:56 9. Tony Tochtrop 1:18:02 10. Matt Kelly 1:18:56 11. Richard Bishop 1:19:26 12. Wayne Cadigan 1:19:57 13. Karl Jarvis 1:20:09 14. Scott Jaime 1:20:30 15. Gordon Hullinger 1:20:30 16. David Bell 1:20:51 17. Mark Bell 1:21:00 18. Brian Stromberg 1:21:21 19. Justin Wheeler 1:21:31 20. Stephen Hiatt 1:21:38 21. John Jordan 1:21:41 22. Reese Kidman 1:21:46 23. Sean Kinne 1:21:49 24. Bremen Leak 1:21:51 25. Eric Maas 1:21:55 26. Dave Scott 1:22:03 27. Bryan Clark 1:22:47 28. Robert Chynoweth 1:22:51 29. Kevin Tuck 1:23:51 30. Tek Kilgore 1:23:55 31. Steven Fossel 1:24:01 32. Scott Caruso 1:24:15 33. Joseph Nzau 1:24:33 34. John Stroud 1:24:45 35. Phillip Stoddard 1:24:59 36. Brad Gasaway 1:25:18 37. Bruce Herman 1:25:20 38. Curtis Kent 1:25:28 39. Tom Barnish 1:25:33 40 James Campbell 1:25:48 Female Overall Half Marathon 1. Leanne Whitesides 1:21:55 2. Julie Thomas 1:23:23 3. Colleen Stroud 1:24:14 4. Shannon Scherer 1:26:44 5. Sarah Krakoff 1:27:54 6. Ingunn Earl 1:31:41 7. Yvonne Joyce 1:31:47 8. Emily Clark 1:31:55 9. Kimberly Eytel 1:31:56 10. Michelle Kelley 1:33:35 11. Elizabeth Conti 1:33:44 12. Sarah Borst 1:34:57 13. Judy Beckenbach 1:35:50 14. Adrienne Beech 1:36:38 15. Julie Godderidge 1:36:43 16. Lisa Schneider 1:37:09 17. Tracie Wu 1:37:16 18. Kendra Hinkson 1:37:34 19. Junko Kazukawa 1:37:50 20. Betsy Spiegel 1:37:55 21. Carrie Porter 1:38:13 22. Robin Marcus 1:38:21 23. Liz Wixom 1:38:29 24. Marlene Mauer 1:38:34 25. Megan Call 1:38:40 26. Anne Kilgore 1:38:50

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Jodie Pyfer Collette Calderwood Lydia Glod Beth McMaster Johnna French Kris Lawson M. Ester Ceja Erika Leetmae Sarah Truitt Audrey Christiansen Bergen White Heather Neilson Heidi Snarr Karla Coats

1:39:02 1:39:17 1:39:22 1:39:31 1:39:44 1:40:00 1:40:04 1:40:06 1:40:06 1:40:14 1:40:22 1:41:11 1:41:28 1:41:46

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Male Overall 5M John Weswah David Kemer Lloyd Yazzle Ken Flint Thomas Lingard Alonzo Sloan Matt Perry Darrell Roberts Lenny Esson Kyle Minson Andrew Downing DJ Taylor Jeff Recker Anthony Johnson Gregg Stucki John Bishoff Toby Salazar Abraham Bitok Dave Peters Jim Lewis Doug Haller Jeff French Nicholas Whitehorse Matthew Downing Heath Parry Joe Hansen John Andrus Joe Kelso Joe Jensen George Salazar Marc Irwin RandyFrench Ron Bunk Sheldon Bagley Gary Torres

26:32 26:41 28:05 28:13 29:36 29:44 30:20 30:43 31:02 31:04 31:10 31:31 31:50 32:10 32:18 32:21 32:41 32:42 32:53 33:05 33:33 33:51 33:56 34:22 34:34 34:46 34:51 35:01 35:04 35:17 35:27 36:02 36:14 36:22 36:32

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Female Overall 5M Brianne Lippoldt Jenifer Compton Mary Cote Karen Fossel Kathaleen Recker Carrie Long Kathryn Smith Kara Opp Celsa Bowman Denna Loyola Melissa Lombard Deirdre Garvey Steffi Minson Martha Heim Cheryl Joe Linda Bunk Jodie Peterson Connie Ahrnsbrak Eileen Struna Shayanne Russell Gina Doerner Paula Radcliffe Jessica Sargent Kelsey Murdock Stephanie Geisler Shauna Kendell Amy King Veronica Dewey Brittnee Scott Tracy Craun Tia Thomas Resa Hayes Jenna Sliwinski Vanessa Washburn Lisa Misner

30:41 31:06 31:28 32:39 34:35 34:40 34:59 37:09 37:19 37:21 38:12 38:35 38:57 39:01 39:21 39:23 39:23 39:28 39:33 39:55 40:09 40:11 40:21 40:23 40:27 40:56 41:13 41:52 42:05 42:05 42:12 42:37 42:56 42:58 43:04

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Sunshine Greets Runners for Lucky 7K

Runnin’ of the Green Lodo, Denver, CO March 14, 2004 Finishers - 2,736 Run, 136 Walk

rish step dancers, free beer, live music, lots of food... and that was just the postrace block party! The 15th annual Runnin’ of the Green Lucky 7K was another success, with nearly 3,000 runners packing the streets of Denver’s lower downtown. How far is a lucky 7K, you ask? It’s 4.349 miles – an unusual race course distance, but at least you can say you ran a PR. The women’s race was a contest between four Olympic Marathon Trials qualifiers who were using the race as a tuneup to test their speed. Boulder’s Patty Murray was the victor, finishing in 24:28. Just seconds behind were Katie Blackett of Boulder and Heather Hunt of Englewood. Boulder’s Tanya Poel finished fourth in 26:21. On the cool, sunny Sunday morning, 27-year-old Brock Tessman of Boulder outsprinted the pack to finish in 21:27, an average of 4:56 per mile. Just six seconds back was Greg Mitchell of Colorado Springs. Fort Collins’ Paul Digrappa captured third in 21:39. The 7K run and the 2 mile walk raised

money for Volunteers of America’s Meals on Wheels program and their Foster Grandparent and Retired Senior Volunteer program.

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Male 19 & Under John McGuire 21:46 Ryan Gregory 26:45 Matt Johnson 27:40

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Female 19 & Under Anna Lieh 29:35 Stephanie Anderson 31:47 Dina Baruth 34:04

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Male 20-29 Brock Tessman Paul Digrappa Gregory Winter

21:28 21:40 21:55

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Female 20-29 Katie Blackett Heather Hunt Andrea Viger

24:44 24:51 27:37

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Male 30-39 Greg Mitchell Andy Bupp Cody Hill

21:33 22:07 23:11

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Female 30-39 Patty Murray Tanya Poel Laurie Edwards

24:28 26:22 27:01

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Male 40-49 Rob Welo Peter Hopkins Dan Skarda

23:22 24:23 24:25

Female 40-49 Ann Lantz

28:56

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Martha Buttner Donna Goldberg

29:35 29:35

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Male 50-59 Kent Oglesby Rich Sandoval Pete Mang

27:36 27:55 28:40

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Female 50-59 Peggy Muhn Jan Hughes Cathy Nicoletti

29:38 30:04 31:48

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Male 60-69 Jim Romero Arnie Williams Rich Romero

30:54 31:02 31:20

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Female 60-69 Connie Ahrnsbrak Bertha McMillen Celeste Callahan

34:13 35:36 37:35

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Male 70+ Rob Di Carlo Paul Orklid Ric Markin

30:52 35:47 38:55

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Female 70+ Gloria Siekmeier Lucille Walden Betty Robinson

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Male Racewalkers Michael Blanchard 40:37 Daryl Meyers 43:25 Robert McGuire 49:57

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Female Racewalkers Louise Ness 50:26 Becky Gerze 51:35 Jan Hallez 52:12

48:46 59:03 1:00:10

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North American Snowshoe Championships

he hometown favorites and season-long front runners competed for cold hard cash under blue bird skies at the North American Snowshoe Championships in Beaver Creek. Vail’s Josiah Middaugh and Danelle Ballengee of Dillon walked off with top honors and a significant slice of the $5,000 cash purse in the Championship 10K event. Middaugh, a three-time 10K champ this season, recorded a time of 46:56 to claim the men’s title, just seconds ahead of runnerup Greg Krause with Team Atlas, while Silt’s Bernie Boettcher placed third, just over 1 minute off Middaugh’s winning pace. For his efforts on the day, Middaugh took home $1,250. No stranger to the podium, Danelle Ballengee claimed the women’s 10K championship with a time of 56:13, a convincing victory margin of 4 minutes, 57 seconds over second place finisher Lisa Goldsmith. Ballengee took home a check for $1,250. Two-time 10K winner this season, Anita Ortiz of Eagle picked up third place honors on the day with a time of 1:01.23.

In other race action on an incredibly warm spring day, Ryan Goheen collected the men’s East-West 5K Quest win ahead of runnerup Benedictus Kok. Vicky Keleske picked up the victory in the women’s division by a mere 11 seconds over Alley Henerson of the Beaver Creek Resort Company. Matthew Hammel and Karen Opp won the Beaver Creek “Dash For Cash” 100-yard sprints, while Christian Kloser and Breanna Gunnarson were victorious in the Kids K competition. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Male Overall 10K Josiah Middaugh Greg Krause Bernie Boettcher Charlie Wertheim Simon Gutierez

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Female Overall 10K Danelle Ballengee 56:13 Lisa Goldsmith 1:01:10 Anita Ortiz 1:01:23 Julie Hudetz 1:02:37 Kerrie Wlad 1:03:25

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Male Overall 5K Ryan Goheen Benedictus Kok Christian Fuller Michael Logan Aaron Fink Mark Feinsinger David Bourdon Brandon Jozwiak Patrick Giefer David Haar

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Vicky Keleske Alley Henderson Heidi Vosbeck Erica Davis Amanda Evans Nikki Cole Christina Schleicher Helga Adasz Darcea Haar Kristine Oelberger

23:50 24:01 24:37 26:32 26:42 27:07 27:43 28:14 28:18 28:27

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20:42 21:11 21:50 22:48 23:25 23:34 23:42 24:33 24:38 25:41

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North American Snowshoe Championships Beaver Creek, CO March 13, 2004 Finishers: 10K - 98, 5K - 188 by Amy Hornyak

Female Overall 5K

AT THE RACES: RACE RESULTS Cowboy State Games 4M February 14, 2004 Casper, WY 34 Finishers

4. 5.

Male Overall Paul Lobdell Neil Neumiller Geoffrey Morneau

24:57 26:59 27:17

Female Overall 1. 2. 3.

Becky Sondag Annie Kepler Gwen O’Dell

25:59 30:47 32:02

Frosty Trail Challenge 50K/25K/12.5K February 14, 2004 Chatfield State Park, Littleton, CO Finishers: 50K-28, 25K-93, 12.5K-129 Full Results at www.coachweber.com

Male Overall 50K

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1. 2. 3.

Joe Kulak Scott Swaney Darrin Eisman

4:06:25 4:11:49 4:14:59

Female Overall 50K 1. 2. 3.

Jamie Donaldson Kaija Staley Dessa Willie

4:47:03 4:51:25 5:48:39

Male Overall 25K 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Tree hoppin’ in the Alfred Packer Trail Challenge 32

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Tim Hola Peter Donelan Erik Zeitlow Douglas Reznick Tom Hammer

1:51:58 1:53:19 1:54:50 1:59:56 2:01:48

Female Overall 25K 1. 2. 3.

Elizabeth Conti Jessica Dorough Michele Jensen

2:15:48 2:21:59

Male Overall 12.5K

Full results at www.windycitystriders.com

1. 2. 3.

Kelley Titterington Stephanie Ehret

2:02:00 2:03:30 2:11:46

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Jeff Gruidel Steven Sellars Isaias Gomez Steven Lee Adam Huff John Porter JP Hutchens Pete Thrasher Scott Crawford Brent Kolobakken

54:57 55:19 57:27 59:07 1:00:07 1:00:53 1:00:56 1:02:41 1:04:39 1:05:11

Female Overall 12.5K 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Kimberley Hoefen Nikki Hola Renee Jones Karin Barclay Leslie Miller Jenny Powers Michelle Johnson Wendy Durst Amy Efaw Kirsten Wulfsberg

1:07:50 1:07:57 1:08:04 1:08:36 1:09:32 1:09:55 1:11:51 1:12:38 1:13:14 1:13:27

Billy’s Island Grill Snowshoe Race February 28, 2004 Vail Mountain, Vail, CO 27 Finishers Full results at www.pedalpowerbike.com

Male Overall 1. 2. 3.

Tavis Macy Dan Nielson Mike Moore

49:55 51:17 52:19

Female Overall 1. 2. 3.

Christine Gould Sara Ridgeway Rickie Redland

Tri Club Indoor Tri Series February 22, 2004

1:07:15 1:09:37 1:20:50

Fort Collins, CO 15min swim, 15min Bike, 15min Run 29 Finishers Total Distance Converted to Points (3.000 points is highest you can score) Full results at www.colordaomultisport.com

Male Overall 1. 2. 3.

Cortino Garcia Andrew Holton Brad Cooper

3.000 2.757 2.734

Female Overall 1. 2. 3.

Jenna Keidel Lisa Dysleski Maura Peterson

2.786 2.611 2.558

Luna Chase Snowshoe Race February 28, 2004 Keystone, CO 340 Finishers Full results at www.active.com

Male Overall 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

Issac Barnes Mark Lowe Tim Hola Shawn Ciaramitaro Cullen Barker Charles Nowacki Peter Donelan Todd Swarts Jerry Stafford Jeff Cospolich Aaron Fink Jaxon Repp Bob Cooper Pete Thrasher Karl Sherve

31:55 35:10 35:18 36:02 36:34 36:53 38:00 39:05 39:33 39:34 40:00 40:15 41:00 41:06 41:07

Female Overall 1. 2. 3.

Helen Cospolich Renee Jones Molly Lawson

36:22 44:03 44:50

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AT THE RACES: RACE RESULTS PPRR Winter Series IV 20K/10K February 28, 2004 Black Forest, CO Finishers: 20K - 77, 10K - 187 Full Results at www.pprrun.org

Male Overall 20K 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Scott Lebo Eric Peterson Darrin Eisman Matt Connors Anthony Surage

1:16:47 1:18:00 1:23:21 1:23:37 1:26:01 1:32:48 1:38:52 1:39:23 1:39:44 1:40:00

Adam Rich Ryan Hafer Matt Williams Sean Kiane Randy Ward Ryan Phillian Andrew Abdella Peter Armstrong Andy Rinne Chad Halsten

35:51 36:06 37:49 38:06 38:08 39:23 39:36 39:50 39:59 40:06

Female Overall 10K 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Jenny Hockman Heather Stites Sandie Hubbard Susan Griffin Katlikan Kristen Anthony Sabrina Gregath Natalia Pond Autumn Petros Good Mary Williams Katie Cox

46:33 47:32 48:05 48:13 49:34 49:51 49:53 50:55 51:08 51:16

Chilly Cheeks Duathlon #3 February 29, 2004 Cherry Creek State Park, Denver, CO 11.2M Bike, 3.9M Run 45 Finishers Full results at www.racingunderground.com

Male Overall 1. 2. 3.

John Phillips Jason Koop Woody Noleen

49:14 53:09 57:53

Female Overall 1. 2. 3.

4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

Kim Callihan Gini Bradley Jill Heil Diane Ridgeway Cindy Langevin Lynn Ryckman

45:15 46:35 46:44 48:15 48:03 48:30

10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

Grace Noyes Cindy Bargell Cat Morrison Sandra Kolodziej Michelle Lyman Sandi Eman

Lindsay Hyman Jennifer Lee Laurie Edwards

59:50 1:03:05 1:03:40

Windy City Striders Winter Series #3 4M February 28, 2004 Casper, WY 46 Finishers

Finishing strong in the Platte River Trail Half Marathon 48:54 49:04 49:40 49:50 50:08 50:35

26:11 27:26 27:32

Female Overall 1.

Cindy Parrish

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Male Overall 1. 2. 3.

Jay Valentine Bryan Whitesides Erik Packard

1. 2. 3.

33:38 34:19 34:50

Leanne Whitesides Kathaleen Recker Kimberly Smith

36:52 39:48 39:57

Tri Club Indoor Tri Series March 7, 2004 Fort Collins, CO 15min swim, 15min Bike, 15min Run 51 Finishers Total Distance Converted to Points (3.000 points is highest you can score) Full results at www.colordaomultisport.com

Cortino Garcia Andrew Holton Casey Hill Dave Armstrong Daniel Crane

2.994 2.690 2.601 2.534 2.504

Jenna Keidel Kirsten McCay-Smith Rebecca Eustice Jenna Rettenmayer Jocelyn Watkins

2.754 2.710 2.696 2.658 2.654

17:52 19:27 21:38

Female Overall Melissa Bouren Jaccinda Moffat Laurel harris

19:08 24:22 25:11

Sharin’ of the Green 5K March 13, 2004 Fort Collins, CO 299 Finishers

27:13

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

Lance Denning Brad Pace Raul Carriealez Richard Bishop Mark Saunders Ken Masaire Lance Shimomura Jim Elwell Jose Areola Dominic Wyzomirski Angelo Aragon Paul Murphy

19:29 19:45 19:46 20:40 20:51 21:07 21:11 21:13 21:30 21:36 21:47 21:56 22:01 22:19 22:30

Male Overall 52.4M 1. 2. 3.

Joe Kulak Daniel Schmidt Kent Hinsey

8:44:52 10:38:11 11:49:04

Female Overall 52.4M Diane Van Deren

11:47:06

Male Overall 39.3M 1. 2. 3.

Scott Kloppenstein Neal Oseland Jack Jewell

7:48:18 8:12:06 8:35:48

Dessa Willie Elise Harrington Carrie Vinci

8:28:44 8:54:45 9:46:02

Male Overall 26.2M

Male Overall

1. 2. 3.

Jamie Schiel Amanda McCracken Mary Shore Margaret Kritzer Carolyn Benson Susan Baker Diane Thompson Abigail Eldridge Cindy Strzelec Julie Hansen Maria Korb Wendy Miner Jessica Campbell Wendy Mader Tanya Tisher

Alferd Packer Trail Challenge 52.4M, 39.3M, 26.2M, 13.1M March 13, 2004 Chatfield State Park, Littleton, CO Finishers: 52M-4, 39M-10, 26M-30, 13M-192

1. 2. 3.

Full results at www.go-dmt.org

Cory Neeley Joshua Coon John Stephenson

18:21 18:28 18:33

Female Overall 39.3M

Animas River Trail 5K March 13, 2004 Durango, CO 21 Finishers

1. 2. 3.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

Female Overall 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Sean Wilde Josh Tate Brian Giauque

Full results at www.coachweber.com

Male Overall 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

13. 14. 15.

Female Overall

Male Overall

Male Overall Paul Lobdell Neal Nuemiller Robert Royse

Canyonlands Tune Up 10K March 6, 2004 Fruita, CO 49 Finishers

Full results at www.footoftherockies.com

Full results at www.windycitystriders.com

1. 2. 3.

27:48 34:25

Female Overall

Jennifer Buenge Andrea Wagner Katherine Carpenter Diane Ridgway Carla Augenstein

Male Overall 10K 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Nadia White Barb Deininger

Full results at www.coloradorunnermag.com

Female Overall 20K 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

2. 3.

16:28 16:48 16:50 16:53 17:08 17:12 17:32 17:41 17:49 17:50 18:08 18:19

1. 2. 3.

James Gomez Tom Edwards Christopher Dizon

4:00:40 4:04:39 4:24:26

Female Overall 26.2M 1. 2. 3.

Terri Handy Julieann Bergman Tonia Ellsworth

5:16:36 5:24:52 6:23:57

Male Overall 13.1M 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Alan Rozendaal Frank Hamer Scott Jaime Travis Silvers Mike Lanciloti Steve Barker John McMillan Isaias Gomez Mark Ruscin Daniel Dolan

1:37:06 1:38:42 1:43:19 1:51:58 1:52:16 1:52:57 1:52:59 1:54:14 1:54:23 1:54:33

Female Overall 13.1M 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

Steph Schwartz Jamie Donaldson Amy Welsh Maureen Cunningham Wendy Lloyd Kelly Titterington Christy Burns

1:55:14 1:57:27 2:05:19 2:05:37 2:08:28 2:08:47 2:09:40

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AT THE RACES: RACE RESULTS 8. 9. 10.

Kelly Sutton Heather Szabo Colleen Dulin

2:09:50 2:13:58 2:14:06

Windy City Striders Winter Series #4 5M March 20, 2004 Casper, WY 42 Finishers Male Overall

Keith McMurtry Paul Lobdell Dick McDonald

31:33 31:47 33:40

Female Overall 1. 2. 3.

Becky Sondag Nadia White Amy Daley

32:01 34:32 41:11

Tri Club Indoor Tri Series March 21, 2004 Fort Collins, CO 15min swim, 15min Bike, 15min Run 33 Finishers Total Distance Converted to Points (3.000 points is highest you can score) Full results at www.colordaomultisport.com

Male Overall 1. 2. 3.

Cortino Garcia Andrew Holton Dan Goding

2.998 2.781 2.728

Female Overall 1. 2. 3.

2.995 2.917 2.770

Eisenhower Marathon, 1/2 Marathon March 27, 2004 Abilene, KS Finishers: 108-26.2M, 112-13.1M Full results at www.eisenhowermarathon.com

Male Overall Marathon Silverus Kimeli Rikki Hacker Steve Riley Bradley Rhoden Brian Cook Jon Finnegan Joe Warner William Ouchark William Carter Ernie Chatman

2:49:58 2:50:17 3:00:53 3:06:02 3:18:02 3:19:21 3:20:42 3:21:03 3:21:58 3:23:18

Female Overall Marathon 1. 2. 3.

Marla Rhoden Nicole Rogers Fillis Friedman

3:57:48 4:06:24 4:18:30 4:34:46 4:41:51 4:45:44 4:46:31

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Shadrack Kimeli Dave Halferty Daniel Boyle Ted Leblow Ben Cheek James Smith Frank Piraino Lonnie Awtrey David Rempe Rick O’Neil

Female Overall Half Marathon 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Beverly Owen Julie Harding Wendy Burton Annue Grevas Holly Lynch Arianne Seidl Tabi Murry Cindy Zumbrunn Shelda Vandervoort Karen Hyde

1:24:53 1:27:24 1:40:52 1:41:55 1:42:07 1:45:06 1:45:18 1:46:06 1:46:10 1:50:58

3:28:18 3:52:16 3:53:04

15:36 16:31 17:33 17:57 18:07 18:10 18:15 18:23 18:25 18:31 18:41 18:45 18:47 18:49 18:56

Female Overall Run 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

Michelle Lee Elena Helmerick Freda Molamphy Jennifer O’Day Rhonda Bershok Coreene Hanson Emily Milian Lilac Ezer

1. 2. 3.

23:04 23:09 23:12 23:17 23:20 24:16 24:32

Michael Blanchard Daryl Myers Jerry Davis

28:04 30:04 32:46

Female Overall Walk 1. 2. 3.

Marianne Martino Rita Sinkovec Marlene Graff

29:04 33:37 33:51

CMRA Spring Spree 10K March 28, 2004 Twin Lakes Park, Denver, CO 67 Finishers Male Overall 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Oscar Ponce Ben Marvin Hector Martinez Fernando Herrera Greg Damian

32:08 32:27 33:41 35:10 37:28

17:49 20:05 20:44 21:06 21:14 22:31 22:33 22:35

Devin Croft Christy Sellars Erin Cunningham Tania Pacev Lauire Hawn

37:05 38:11 39:00 42:15 42:50

YMCA Dash 5K April 3, 2004 Superior Cummunity Park, Superior, CO 154 Finishers Full results at www.active.com

Brice Young RL Smith Brad Klein Steven Sellars Ashi Guiles Eric Manning Scott Burns Matt Seebaum John Bennett John McCarthy

18:02 18:21 18:41 18:51 20:18 20:34 21:01 21:35 21:51 21:57

Female Overall 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Marilyn Quinn Staci Reidinger Audrey Harris Jen McAdams

23:26 23:47 24:12 24:57

Windy City Striders Winter Series #5 10K April 3, 2004 Casper, WY 46 Finishers

Full results at www.windycitystriders.com

Male Overall 1. 2. 3.

Geoff Douglas Paul Lobdell David Toppenberg

32:17 35:15 38:15

Female Overall Becky Sondag Nadia White Annie Kepler

37:27 38:54 43:13

Widowmaker Trail Race 11M/7M April 3, 2004 Grand Junction, CO Finishers: 21-11M, 16-7M Full results at www.coloradorunnermag.com

Male Overall 11M 1. 2. 3.

Robb Reece Lenny Staats Steve Vigil

1:13:00 1:17:35 1:18:13

Female Overall 11M 1. 2. 3.

Sue Drake Christi Reece Becky Reece

Laurie Edwards Kelly Carlson Catriona Dowling Jenni Jageman Adriane Stewart Lisa Heims

19:18 19:44 19:50 20:46 20:58 22:59

9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

Patrick Henin Brad Sorensen Andrew Subudhi Derek Griffiths Tim Gentry Toby Nitschke James Kovacs

1:20:51 1:22:45 1:23:04 1:24:55 1:25:22 1:25:30 1:26:38

Female Overall Run 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

Jessica Dorough Susan Nuzum Tracy Stewart Jody Schrader Jamie Donaldson Michelle Gardner Amy Sorensen Michelle Jensen Rachel Foos Sara Turtle Shannon Smith Sheila Vancuyk Diana Musbek Barbara Peterson Julie Rafferty

1:28:50 1:30:35 1:33:02 1:33:09 1:33:11 1:35:17 1:35:41 1:37:12 1:37:15 1:39:32 1:39:38 1:40:00 1:41:32 1:42:27 1:42:46

Overall Relay Co-Ed 1. 2. 3.

Potts Trotters #1 DDS Team Turner

1:30:17 1:42:23 1:48:27

Overall Relay Female 1. 2. 3.

Running For Breakfast Darwin’s Divas Barley Babes

1:50:47 1:54:37 2:08:41

1:45:47 1:53:43 2:25:58

Male Overall 7M 1. 2. 3.

Luke Reece Rosco Bertunada Paul Lans

1:04:00 1:04:11 1:07:40

Female Overall 7M

Male Overall 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

7. 8. 9. 10.

1. 2. 3.

Full results at www.comastersrun.org

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Male Overall Run SeanNesbitt Paul Fleming Andy Rinne Brian Glotzbach Kenton Curtis Ryan Wess Gerald Romero Matt Meehan Todd Baldini Bob Vanlangenhoven Joey Gambescia Dwayne Jenkins Charles Schultz Steve Pyle Bill Harvey

Jean Franzmann Tiffany Longmire Emily Hoagland Rebekah Nesbitt Carol Whipple Sheila Haggerty Breann Westmore

Female Overall

Orphans of Violence 5K March 28, 2004 Washington Park, Denver, CO 279 Finishers

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

Male Overall Walk 1:10:44 1:10:48 1:14:24 1:15:00 1:23:30 1:29:23 1:29:34 1:30:38 1:31:26 1:32:10

Full results at www.bkbltd.com

Wendy Mader Jocelyn Watkins Lisa Dysleski

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Diane Brozek Kelly Roberts Jamie Kim Beth Chapman Callie Baird Paula Ford Maryann Fedock

Male Overall Half Marathon

Full results at www.windycitystriders.com

1. 2. 3.

4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

1. 2. 3.

Jerri Wheatley Katie Hill Sheryl Douglas

1:01:58 1:29:58 1:33:21

Platte River Trail 1/2 Marathon April 4, 2004 Downtown Littleton to Denver, CO 346 Finishers

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Male Overall Run 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

Jasion Saitta Michael Brouillette Steve Cathcart Randy Ward Keith Johnson Brad Pace Kirk Fremke Rafael Pacheco

1:14:12 1:17:30 1:17:38 1:17:43 1:17:56 1:18:11 1:18:27 1:20:00

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AT THE RACES: RACING SERIES RESULTS AND STANDINGS 5K on St. Patricks Day March 13, 2004 Old Colorado City, Col. Springs, CO 902 Finishers Full results at www.csgrandprix.com

Male Open 1 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

Name Adam Rich Matthew Kowalski Steve Hackworth Ben Flora Tyler Hedges Tommy Morphet Rich Treden Carl Leivers Joel Kindt Gabriel Rosodo Lee Draeger Jeff Holt Joel Rodriguez Josh Eberly Aaron Ewortham Damion Norris Tyler Hoerner Kobi Rex Joel Mock Travis Stanford

Time Points 15:32 150 15:43 135 16:06 125 16:59 115 17:17 105 17:38 100 17:47 95 18:32 90 18:33 85 18:44 80 18:45 75 19:14 70 19:18 65 19:53 60 19:57 55 20:10 50 20:18 40 20:19 30 20:26 20 20:27 10

Female Open 1 1.

Name Jen Michel

Time Points 17:30 150

2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

Jodi Day Tracy Perfors Ashlee Withrow Traci Yamada Carrie Adams Lauren Frith Claudia Lloyd Autumn Good Lexi Miller Kate Hendrickson Elizabeth Jones Catherine Waller Binnie Imperiale Jamie Welch Hanna Heuser Sarah Blakeskee Christina Pagano Sara Ramsey Stephanie Hirst

19:10 20:51 21:20 21:41 21:49 21:56 22:19 22:33 22:33 22:48 22:54 22:56 22:58 23:06 23:10 23:57 24:20 24:21 24:27

135 125 115 105 100 95 90 85 80 75 70 65 60 55 50 40 30 20 10

Male Open 2 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.

Name Justin Chaston Nelson Laux Greg Augspurger Jason Hodgson Adolfo Carrillo Joe Fogarty Jeffrey Prata Gordon Birdsall Antonio Eppolito John Phillips Mike Wasson

Time Points 14:31 150 14:52 135 15:16 125 15:34 115 15:40 105 16:01 100 16:24 95 16:28 90 16:37 85 16:50 80 16:54 75

12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

Paul Koch Steve Moon Gerald Romero Andy Rinne Aaron Severs Matt Connors Chad Halsten Nathan McCrary Rob Gilliam

17:06 17:07 17:22 17:31 17:32 17:34 17:40 17:54 18:16

70 65 60 55 50 40 30 20 10

Female Open 2 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

Name Stacey Chaston Michelle Lee Kelly Handel Kelly Moon Shannon Meredith Kristi Strizich Danielle Fleming Emily Adcox Erica Kastner Lori Flint Elizabeth Atkins Caroline Kennett Anna Message Shelley Bailey Jennifer Bognar Jennifer Sperl Annie Collopy Jamie Garza Darlene Phelps Debby Patz-Clark

Time Points 17:14 150 17:38 135 18:01 125 19:26 115 19:32 105 19:55 100 21:05 95 21:25 90 21:37 85 21:45 80 22:03 75 22:41 70 22:53 65 23:03 60 23:05 55 23:18 50 23:23 40 23:23 30 23:35 20 23:39 10

Male Masters 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

Name Anthony Surage Robert Yara Rich Hadley Lile Budden Woody Noleen Thaddeus Noll Rick Shoulberg Scott Trimboli Ken Lefrancois Timothy Smith Robert Wilcox Bruce Miller Milton Diaz Craig Dayberry Michael Wahl

Time Points 17:08 100 17:21 90 17:49 80 17:56 70 18:06 60 18:20 50 18:25 45 18:48 40 18:49 65 18:50 60 18:53 25 19:20 20 19:21 15 19:46 10 19:48 5

Female Masters 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.

Name Sheila Geere Cindy O’Neill Fay Slattery Maddy Tormoen Joni Caverly Penny Bergsten Pilar Geroge Sharon Dieter Susan Repp Rita Burr Evelyn Rogers Denise Logan Sheila DeGerrera

Time Points 18:41 100 19:03 90 19:34 80 20:28 70 20:43 60 22:30 50 23:04 45 23:04 40 23:50 35 24:01 30 24:25 25 24:48 20 25:01 15

14. Linda Matthews 15. Katie Vieux

25:04 25:14

10 5

Male Grand Masters 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Name Lynn Dougherty Frank Moore Dave Diaz Jim Kerr Lou Huie Edward Griege Ralph Munoz Ronald Ramsey Grant Stephens Les Goss

Time Points 19:14 100 19:25 90 19:56 80 20:45 70 20:52 60 21:34 50 21:44 40 22:29 30 22:42 20 22:46 10

Female Grand Masters 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Name Sandra Miller Lola Ackerman Bed Anderson Peg Roddy-Reeg Diane Cridennda Judith Russell Kathleen Letner Louise Samora Jan Sieg Theresa Cooley

Time Points 22:36 100 23:05 90 24:26 80 24:41 70 25:45 60 25:51 50 26:58 40 28:12 30 28:50 20 29:31 10

Male Seniors 1.

Name James Boughter

Time Points 18:46 100

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Sunday, July 11 – 7:00 AM Bear Creek Park, Colorado Springs

Enjoy the beauty of the Garden and the challenge of the hills. It’s running nirvana at its best!

A great 12K trail race on a new course. The course is an out-n-back on well-groomed, challenging and scenic trails. Elevation gain at the turn-around is 985’

For both races, see www.pikespeakmarathon.org for more info, or call (719) 473-2625

AT THE RACES: RACING SERIES RESULTS AND STANDINGS 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

Cindy Strowbridge Abigail Murphy Amita Chugh Jodi McGee Dina Baruth Julia Logan

32:28 32:53 32:59 33:58 34:04 34:10

55 50 40 30 20 10

Male Open 2 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

Name Brock Tessman Greg Mitchell Andy Bupp Peter Flynn Jeremy Skinner Derek Griffiths Cody Hill Todd Beetcher Todd Larson Andrew Holton Jim Hallberg Andre Raveling Jason Jensen Keith Hannon Brian Glotzbach Justin McMillan Chuck Jernigan David Rothenburger Carl Schmitt Jeffrey Gruidel Name Patty Murray Katie Blackett Heather Hunt Tanya Poel Laurie Edwards Andrea Viger Jennifer Lee Alicia Fischer Lori Schmidt Rusha Pearson Nancy Thonen Trisha Spaeth Mia Marietta Iris Richmond Susan Bellard Michele Jensen Ashley Harder Cassandra Harris Ashley Chritchlow Dawn Brandt

Time Points 24:28 150 24:43 135 24:50 125 26:21 115 27:00 105 27:36 100 27:41 95 27:43 90 28:32 85 28:35 80 28:35 75 29:06 70 29:07 65 29:18 60 29:26 55 29:53 50 29:58 40 30:00 30 30:12 20 30:20 10

Male Masters 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

Name Rob Welo Peter Hopkins Dan Skarda Tarcisio Cruz Steven Pye Ted Goodwin Brad Klein Rick Morris Steve Kovisto Steve Slotter Jay Survil Tom O’Brien Eric Vitcenda Joel Duttera Carley Dean

Time Points 23:21 100 24:22 90 24:24 80 25:12 70 25:19 60 25:46 50 25:53 45 26:24 40 26:39 35 26:56 30 27:05 25 27:11 20 27:18 15 27:23 10 27:36 5

Female Masters

Justin Chaston wins the 5K on St. Patrick’s Day in Colorado Springs 2. 3. 4. 5.

Dennis Normoyle Jeff Smith Allen Schoffstall Richard Kennett

24:28 25:06 25:44 25:52

80 60 40 20

Female Seniors 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Name Sally Kennett Martha Kinsinger Barb Sailor Hilda Reyher Darlene Leathers

Time Points 26:26 100 29:09 80 30:03 60 31:36 40 36:47 20

Running Of The Green Lucky 7K March 14, 2004 LoDo, Denver, CO 2736 Finishers Full results at www.bkbltd.com.com

Male Open 1 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

Name Paul Digrappa John McGuire Gregory Winter Jon Clemence Stephen Lester Mark Shin Michael Brouilette Matthew Cabrera

Time Points 21:39 150 21:45 135 21:54 125 22:10 115 22:24 105 22:54 100 23:29 95 24:04 90

9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

Nathan Cabrera Ryan Wess Jonathan Peeters Jack Kelley Ryan Gregory Neil Cella Joel Dice Matt Johnson Marty Sandberg Nathan Muhn Ryan O’Neill John Hergarty

25:11 26:06 26:13 26:23 26:44 26:53 27:22 27:39 28:23 28:32 28:35 28:55

85 80 75 70 65 60 55 50 40 30 20 10

Female Open 1 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.

Name Heather Burcar Jacqueline Hjelden Kelly Brady Rachel Foos Anna Lieh Megan Buttner Mary Probst Theresa Baictto Ngela Anderson Elizabeth Cohan Stephanie Anderson Leah Pearson Molly Albano Lindsey Mathews

Time Points 27:55 150 28:34 135 28:44 125 29:09 115 29:34 105 30:11 100 31:01 95 31:29 90 31:32 85 31:37 80 31:46 75 31:58 70 32:00 65 32:11 60

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

Name Ann Lantz Martha Buttner Donna Goldberg Janet Rooney Lynn McEwen Susan Neale Jennifer Fawcett Barb Allen Jacquie Garrelts Barbara Hartung Rosemary Smith Correne Hanson Luann Giebler Emilie Young Joan Amend

Time Points 28:56 100 29:34 90 29:35 80 29:57 70 30:10 60 31:12 50 31:33 45 32:03 40 32:06 35 32:13 30 32:21 25 33:18 20 33:19 15 33:33 10 34:27 5

Male Grand Masters 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Name Kent Oglesby Rich Sandoval Pete Mang Robert Dallain Jeff Maugans Jim Ahlbrecht Michael Lavery Ty Wyant Rick Seibel John Probst

Time Points 27:35 100 27:54 90 28:39 80 28:58 70 29:04 60 30:24 50 30:42 40 30:46 30 30:51 20 31:11 10

Female Grand Masters 1. 2. 3. 4.

Name Peggy Muhn Jan Hughes Cathy Nicoletti Helen Mang

Patricia Wheeler Carole Hogan Jody Hughes Carmen West Robin Cunningham Nancy Kern

36:02 36:06 36:13 36:18 37:32 37:33

60 50 40 30 20 10

Male Seniors Time Points 21:27 150 21:33 135 22:06 125 22:44 115 22:54 105 23:02 100 23:11 95 23:45 90 23:53 85 23:55 80 24:19 75 24:43 70 24:47 65 25:23 60 25:27 55 25:33 50 25:39 40 25:40 30 25:41 20 26:11 10

Female Open 2 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Time Points 29:37 100 30:03 90 31:47 80 35:10 70

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Name Bob Di Carlo Jim Romero Arnie Willems Richard Romero John Boyle

Time Points 30:51 100 30:53 80 31:01 60 31:19 40 32:14 20

Female Seniors 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Name Connie Ahrnsbrak Bertha McMillen Celeste Callahan Wanda Willems Marty Lund

Time Points 34:12 100 35:35 80 37:34 60 37:55 40 40:36 20

Overall standings after 2 events For complete standings, please visit www.coloradorunnermag.com Male Open 1 Name Age Points Races Paul Digrappa 22 150 1 Adam Rich 23 150 1 Matthew Kowalski 24 135 1 John McGuire 17 135 1 Steve Hackworth 25 125 1 Gregory Winter 24 125 1 Jon Clemence 22 115 1 Ben Flora 16 115 1 Tyler Hedges 21 105 1 Stephen Lester 23 105 1 Tommy Morphet 16 100 1 Mark Shin 22 100 1 Michael Brouillette 25 95 1 Rich Treden 22 95 1 Matthew Cabrera 23 90 1 Carl Leivers 23 90 1 Nathan Cabrera 20 85 1 Joel Kindt 18 85 1 Gabriel Rosodo 20 80 1 Ryan Wess 25 80 1 Female Open 1 Name Age Points Races Jen Michel 25 150 1 Jodi Day 25 150 1 Tracy Perfors 23 135 1 Ashlee Withrow 17 135 1 Traci Yamada 24 125 1 Carrie Adams 25 125 1 Lauren Frith 23 115 1 Claudia Lloyd 22 115 1 Autumn Good 16 105 1 Lexi Miller 14 105 1 Kate Hendrickson 18 100 1 Elizabeth Jones 21 100 1 Catherine Waller 21 95 1 Binnie Imperiale 23 95 1 Jamie Welch 14 90 1 Hanna Heuser 14 90 1 Sarah Blakeskee 18 85 1 Christina Pagano 24 85 1 Sara Ramsey 22 80 1 Stephanie Hirst 18 80 1 Male Open 2 Name Justin Chaston Brock Tessman Nelson Laux Greg Mitchell Greg Augspurger Andy Bupp Peter Flynn Jason Hodgson Adolfo Carrillo Jeremy Skinner Joe Fogarty Derek Griffiths Cody Hill Jeffrey Prata Todd Beetcher Godron Birdsall Antonio Eppolito Todd Larson Andrew Holton John Phillips

Age Points Races 35 150 1 27 150 1 26 135 1 30 135 1 26 125 1 31 125 1 27 115 1 31 115 1 32 105 1 26 105 1 33 100 1 28 100 1 31 95 1 31 95 1 36 90 1 36 90 1 35 85 1 26 85 1 36 80 1 27 80 1

Female Open 2

Laurie Edwards Kristi Strizich Andrea Viger Danielle Fleming Jennifer Lee Emily Adcox Alicia Fischer Erica Kastner Lori Schmidt Lori Flint Rusha Pearson

34 34 26 26 31 28 27 34 26 38 26

105 100 100 95 95 90 90 85 85 80 80

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

Male Masters Name Anthony Surage Rob Welo Peter Hopkins Robert Yara Rich Hadley Dan Skarda Lile Budden Tarcisio Cruz Woody Noleen Steven Pye Ted Goodwin Thaddeus Noll Brad Klein Rick Shoulberg

Age Points Races 44 100 1 40 100 1 40 90 1 49 90 1 48 80 1 44 80 1 43 70 1 42 70 1 48 60 1 40 60 1 41 50 1 47 50 1 40 45 1 43 45 1

Female Masters Name Sheila Geere Ann Lantz Martha Buttner Cindy O’Neill Donna Goldberg Fay Slattery Janet Rooney Maddy Tormoen Joni Caverly Lynn McEwen Penny Bergsten Susan Neale Jennifer Fawcett Pilar George

Age Points Races 40 100 1 40 100 1 48 90 1 42 90 1 45 80 1 40 80 1 40 70 1 42 70 1 40 60 1 41 60 1 41 50 1 46 50 1 42 45 1 40 45 1

Male Grand Masters Name Lynn Dougherty Kent Oglesby Frank Moore Rich Sandoval Dave Diaz Pete Mang Robert Dallain Jim Kerr Lou Huie Jeff Maugans

Age Points Races 58 100 1 55 100 1 54 90 1 50 90 1 55 80 1 53 80 1 52 70 1 56 70 1 57 60 1 52 60 1

Female Grand Masters Name Sandra Miller Peggy Muhn Lola Ackerman Jan Hughes Deb Anderson Cathy Nicoletti Helen Mang Peg Roddy-Reeg Diane Cridennda Patricia Wheeler

Age Points Races 50 100 1 51 100 1 59 90 1 53 90 1 54 80 1 53 80 1 50 70 1 55 70 1 51 60 1 51 60 1

Male Seniors Name Age Points Races James Boughter 60 100 1 Bob Di Carlo 70 100 1 Dennis Normoyle 60 80 1 Jim Romero 63 80 1 Jeff Smith 63 60 1 Arnie Willems 61 60 1 Richard Romero 67 40 1 Allen Schoffstall 64 40 1 John Boyle 66 20 1 Richard Kennett 68 20 1 Female Seniors Name Age Points Races Connie Ahrnsbrak 64 100 1 Sally Kennett 61 100 1 Martha Kinsinger 69 80 1 Berta McMillen 64 80 1 Celeste Callahan 61 60 1 Barb Sailor 63 60 1 Hilda Reyher 67 40 1 Wanda Willems 60 40 1 Darlene Leathers 65 20 1 Marty Lund 60 20 1

Name Age Points Races Stacey Chaston 33 150 1 Patty Murray 38 150 1 Katie Blackett 26 135 1 Michelle Lee 31 135 1 Kelly Handel 26 125 1 Heather Hunt 29 125 1 Kelly Moon 29 115 1 Tanya Poel 38 115 1 Shannon Meredith 33 105 1

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Colorado Runner Racing Series Sponsored by Nike and the Boulder Running Company

The Colorado Runner Racing Series is a scored series of premier races throughout the state. Runners will be scored based on their finishing place in each race. The winners in each division will be featured in Colorado Runner magazine and the top five runners in each division will receive an award from Nike.

Criteria used in determining Racing Series races: 1. Location 2. Race distance 3. Quality of the Field

4. Size of the race 5. Date of the race 6. Race organization

2004 Racing Series Schedule Date

Name

Distance

Location

March 13

5K on St. Patrick’s Day

Colorado Springs

March 14

Runnin’ Of The Green

Denver

May 1

Cinco Cinco

Fort Collins

June 6

Steamboat Marathon

26.2M, 13.1M, 10K

Steamboat Springs

June 12

Ten Mile Creek 10K

10K

Frisco

June 12

Run The Rockies

13.1M

Frisco

June 13

Garden Of The Gods

10M

Colorado Springs

June 27

Stadium Stampede

Denver

July 4

Boogie’s Diner Buddy Run

Aspen

July 31

Classic 10,000

10K

Colorado Springs

August 1

Evergreen Town Race

10K

Evergreen

August 7

The Human Race

Fort Collins

August 14

Georgetown To Idaho Springs

13.1M

Georgetown

September 19

Governor’s Cup

10K

Denver

September 26

Boulder Backroads

26.2M, 13.1M

Boulder

October 10

Durango Marathon

26.2M

Durango

November 13

Rim Rock Run

37K

Grand Junction

NEW MID-SERIES AWARDS OFFERED BY NIKE AND BRC Nike and the Boulder Running Company will be giving mid-series awards at the Stadium Stampede on June 27. Stop by the Boulder Running Company booth after the race to see if you are in the top three in your division. If so, you will receive one of the following prizes: 1st Place - Nike Heart Rate Monitor 2nd Place - Nike Sunglasses 3rd Place - Nike Watch

Racing Series Scoring In each race, points will be awarded to the top 20 male and female finishers in the open division 1 (runners ages 1-25) and the top 20 runners in the open division 2 (ages 26-39). In the masters competition, the top 15 men and women will be scored (for runners 40-49). Points will be given to the top 10 finishers in the grand masters competition (runners aged 50-59). Points will be given to the top 5 men and women in the senior division (runers 60 and over). Runners may participate in as many races as they choose but only their best 7 races will count towards scoring (or any number of races up to 7). For races with multiple starts, finish time will be used to calculate points. If a races has scoring trouble, it may be removed from the series. For races with mutiple events, only the events listed will be scored.

Example of the points scored Place

Open 1 & 2

150

135

125

115

105

100

Masters

100

Grand Masters

100

Seniors

100

May / June 2004

AT THE RACES: RACE CALENDAR may May 01 Collegiate Peaks Run 50M/25M Buena Vista, CO 6:00 AM 719-395-6612 buenavista@vtinet.com www.fourteenernet.com/buenavista Montrail Spring Desert Ultra 25M/50M Fruita, CO 6:30 AM Mack Trailhead on the Kokopelli Trail 303-652-9949 michreid@aol.com www.geminiadventures.com Partners Fiesta 5K Greeley, CO 8:00 AM 970-356-6964 www.footoftherockies.com Shepardson 4K Shepardson School, Ft. Collins, CO 8:00 AM 970-226-6370 www.footoftherockies.com PPRR Nielsen Challenge 1M/2M Colorado Springs, CO 8:00 AM N. Monument Valley Park 719-633-2055 zguntam@juno.com www.pprrun.org Take 5 in the Garden of the Gods 5M/5K Colorado Springs, CO 8:00 AM Garden of the Gods 719-635-8803 director@csgrandprix.com www.csgrandprix.com Cinco Cinco 5K CSU Oval, Ft. Collins, CO 8:00 AM 970-491-7165 www.footoftherockies.com Women’s River Trail 5K Grand Junction, CO 8:30 AM Colo. River Trail, West of GJ 970-241-8278 jeffslowdog@yahoo.com www.mmstriders.org Palmer Prowl, 5K Palmer, CO 9:00 AM Palmer Elementary School 303-388-5929 Furry Scurry 2 Mile Walk & Run Washington Park, Denver, CO 9:00 AM 303-696-4941 www.ddfl.org Moore Mustangs 5K Moore Middle School, Arvada, CO 9:00 AM 303-652-9949 KBCO Kinetic 5K Race Around the Rez Boulder Reservoir, Boulder, CO 9:00 AM 303-444-5600 www.active.com Sprint Challenge 10K/5K Steamboat Springs, CO 10:00 AM Strawberry Park Schools 970-871-9602 info@runningseries.com www.runningseries.com

May 02 Lincoln Marathon/Half-Marathon Lincoln, NE 7:00 AM University Of Nebraska - Lincoln 402-435-3504 www.lincolnrun.org/marathon.htm Run For The Zoo 10K/5K Rio Grande Zoo, Albuquerque, NM 7:00 AM 505-764-6280 run4zoo@nmia.com www.run4zoo.org Bolder Boulder Qualifier 5K Boulder, CO 7:30 AM 303-444-7223 www.bolderboulder.com Tortoise & Hare 6K Spring Park, Ft. Collins, CO 8:00 AM 970-225-3900 www.footoftherockies.com Run With the Warriors 5K Westminster, CO 8:00 AM Westminster City Park 303-428-1227 www.active.com Cinco de Mayo Run 10K/2K Fairgrounds, Pueblo, CO 8:00 AM 719-564-7685 www.socorunners.org Make-A-Wish Half Marathon Denver, CO 8:00 AM Cherry Creek State Park 303-750-9474 www.bkbltd.com RMRR Trophy Series 5M Carson Nature Center, Denver, CO 8:00 AM 303-871-8366 rmrr@rmrr.org www.rmrr.org Spring Chill Triathlon/Duathlon Duathlon, Tri-Sprint, Tri-Olympic Boyd Lake, Loveland, CO 9:00 AM 303-520-1604 erin@coloradomultisport.com www.springchill.com Littleton Stride 10K/5K/1K Ketring Park, Littleton, CO 9:00 AM 303-694-2030 annie@bkbltd.com www.bkbltd.com May 04 Dasani/ Fleet Feet Dash & Dine 5K Coot Lake, Boulder, CO 6:30 PM 303-530-2072 info@triraceusa.com www.triraceusa.com/5kseries.html May 08 Bolder Boulder Qualifier 5K Flat Iron Crossing Mall, Superior, CO 7:00 AM 303-444-7223 www.bolderboulder.com Panoramic at Bear Creek 4M Colorado Springs, CO 8:00 AM Bear Creek Park 719-598-2953 patlockhart@worldnet.att.net

www.pprrun.org Copper for Colfax 5K Sloan’s Lake, Denver, CO 8:00 AM 303-573-3899 www.active.com High Line Canal 10K/5K deKoevend Park, Littleton, CO 8:30 AM 303-798-7515 AllisonB@ssprd.org www.ssprd.org Race For The Cure 5K The Gateway, Salt Lake City, UT 8:30 AM 801-446-2980 info@komenslc.org www.komenslc.org Barkin’ Dog Duathlon 5K run, 30K bike, 5K run Keensburg, CO 9:00 AM 303-527-1798 info@racingunderground.com www.racingunderground.com The Great Escape Trail Race Half-Marathon/10K/5K Littleton, CO 9:00 AM Deer Creek Canyon Park 303-664-1737 thegreatescape@cancerclimber.org www.bewellweb.com/oneworld/ thegreatescape.htm Run For Shelter 3M XC Run Montrose HS Track, Montrose, CO 9:00 AM 970-249-8536 mjforest@starband.net www.montrose.org/org/runners/ Mother’s Day 5K Jackson Hole, WY 9:30 AM Emily Stevens Park 307-733-5056 jharkness@tetonwyo.org www.tetonwyo.org May 09 Fort Collins Old Town Marathon Half-Marathon/10K Old Town Plaza, Fort Collins, CO 6:00 AM 970-493-6701 roostftc@cs.com www.ftcollinsmarathon.com Mother’s Day Title 9K Boulder Reservoir, Boulder, CO 9:00 AM 303-996-0074 www.active.com Mama Mia 5K and Meatball 1 Mile City Park, Denver, CO 9:00 AM 303-694-2030 annie@bkbltd.com www.bkbltd.com Telegraph 10K Durango, CO 10:00 AM 970-385-2950 CALIESRA@ci.durango.co.us www.go-dmt.org Mother’s Day Mile Glenwood Springs, CO 1:00 PM Glenwood Medical Associates 970-945-2632 www.active.com May 11

Dasani/ Fleet Feet Dash & Dine 5K Coot Lake, Boulder, CO 6:30 PM 303-530-2072 info@triraceusa.com www.triraceusa.com/5kseries.html May 15 St. George Triathlon St. George, UT 435-770-3122 www.sgtri.com 24 Hours of Boulder (Solo, 2-5 Person Relays) Boulder Reservoir, Boulder, CO 303-652-9949 michreid@aol.com www.geminiadventures.com Ordinary Mortals Women’s Triathlon Swim 525 Meters / Bike 12 Miles / Run 3 Miles Pueblo West, CO 6:45 AM Pueblo Regional Center 719-543-5151 bvaldez@puebloymca.org www.socorunners.org Black Canyon Ascent 10K Montrose, CO 8:00 AM CO Hwy 347 at US Hwy 50 Black Canyon National Park 970-249-3261 ccs@montrose.net www.montrose.org/org/runners/ South Rim Trail Biathlon 6M Trail Run, 15M Mtn. Bike Durango, CO 8:00 AM 970-247-3116 inmotion@masear.net www.go-dmt.org Grace Best Giddyup 5K Colorado Springs, CO 8:30 AM Grace Best Elementary School 719-488-1071 paprocki@divide.net www.pprrun.org Fire Hydrant 5K Edora Park, Ft. Collins, CO 8:30 AM 970-226-3647 www.active.com Mike The Headless Chicken Run 5K Fruita, CO 9:00 AM 970-858-0360 www.mmstriders.org Hayden Cog Run 8.4M Hayden, CO 10:00 AM Hayden Town Park 970-276-3741 info@runningseries.com www.runningseries.com Wheels & Heels 5K Denver, CO 10:00 AM City Park 303-830-1839 w&h@parkinsoncolorado.org www.active.com May 16 AirLife Memorial 10K/5K/Kids Fun Run Littleton, CO 8:00 AM Hudson Gardens 303-694-2030 annie@bkbltd.com www.bkbltd.com

May 22 Hot Springs Short Cut Run 7M Steamboat Springs, CO 8:00 AM Steamboat Springs Health and Rec. 970-879-9853 info@runningseries.com www.runningseries.com Cottonwood Classic 5K Thornton, CO 8:00 AM 303-694-2030 annie@bkbltd.com www.bkbltd.com Garfield Grumble Trail Experience 5M Palisade, CO 8:00 AM Mt. Garfield Trailhead (just north of I-70) 970-245-4243 boogidieshoe@msn.com www.mmstriders.org Moab Steelbender Triathlon 1500M Swim, 20K Bike, 10K Run Ken’s Lake, Moab, UT 8:00 AM 801-229-6212 nbenson@moabtri.com www.moabtri.com/index.htm Highlands Ranch 5K Highlands Ranch, CO 8:30 AM Northridge Park 303-471-8828 www.hrcaonline.org CMRA Memorial Run 5K/10K deKoevend Park, Littleton, CO 9:00 AM 303-791-6166 www.comastersrun.org Fun Day 5k Parker, CO 11:00 AM Southeast Christian Church 303-841-9292 www.active.com May 23 Colorado Rockies Home Run 5K Coors Field, Denver, CO 8:15 AM 303-798-7028 www.active.com Tiger Prowl 5K Lakewood HS, Lakewood, CO 8:30 AM 303-905-6520 www.active.com May 29 Run for Rio 5K Rye High School, Rye, CO 8:00 AM 719-859-5136 www.socorunners.org Custer 2020 Run in the Valley 6.25K/1M Westcliffe, CO 8:15 AM 719-783-9163 www.socorunners.org Wyoming Marathon, Half-Marathon, Double Marathon Laramie, WY 6:00 AM Lincoln Monument Rest Area, Exit 323 off I-80 307-635-3316 RunWyo@msn.com www.angelfire.com/wy2/marathon/

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AT THE RACES: RACE CALENDAR May 30 Memorial Run Albuquerque, NM 6:50 AM Kirkland Air Force Base 505-256-3625 tcr@tgrande.com www.tgrande.com Mount Evans Ascent 14.5M Echo Lake, Evergreen, CO 7:00 AM 970-389-4838 danelle@colorado.net Narrow Gauge Runs 10M/5K Park Elementary, Durango, CO 8:00 AM 970-382-2662 kkoyler@aol.com www.go-dmt.org May 31 Bolder Boulder 10K Folsom Field, Boulder, CO 7:00 AM 303-444-RACE race@bolderboulder.com www.bolderboulder.com

june June 05 Park City Rail Trail 10K Park City, UT 7:00 AM 801-583-6281 sports-am@abac.com www.sports-am.com Charity Chase 5K Stapleton, Denver, CO 7:00 AM 303-694-2030 annie@bkbltd.com www.bkbltd.com Water Tower 5M Grand Junction, CO 7:30 AM 1.5M north on H Rd. 970-241-6478 doowahdiddee@aol.com www.mmstriders.org Salt Lake City Classic 10K/5K/1M Gallican Canter, Salt Lake City, UT 7:30 AM 303-694-2030 annie@bkbltd.com www.bkbltd.com Courage Relay Run 5K/10K Island Grove Park, Greeley, CO 8:00 AM 970-352-0211 www.active.com Teva Mountain Games Spring Runoff 6.5M 2004 USA Trail Championships International Bridge, Vail, CO 10:00 AM 970-479-2280 mortiz@vailrec.com www.vailrec.com RMRR Trophy Series 2.4M Stone House Park, Lakewood, CO 8:00 AM 303-871-8366 rmrr@rmrr.org www.rmrr.org PPRR Nielsen Challenge 1M/2M Colorado Springs, CO 8:00 AM N. Monument Valley Park 719-633-2055 zguntam@juno.com

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Run for the River 5K Heritage Park, Ft. Collins, CO 8:30 AM 970-484-0810 www.footoftherockies.com

Run the Rockies Half Marathon Old Town Hall, Frisco, CO 8:30 AM 303-635-2815 emgmh@emgcolorado.com www.emgcolorado.com

June 06 Casper Marathon Half-Marathon/5K Casper Events Center, Casper, WY 6:30 AM 307-261-6543 director@runwyoming.com www.runwyoming.com Steamboat Marathon Half-Marathon/10K Steamboat Springs, CO 7:30 AM 970-879-0882 www.runningseries.com

Wagon Box Social Mountain Run 5K/10K/15K Meeteetse, WY 10:00 AM Brown Mountain Campground on Wood River 307-868-2603 meetrec@tctwest.net www.meeteetsewy.com/rec/race.html June 13

Tri-Trail Challenge 6M,800m,5K Three Sisters Park, Evergreen, CO 8:00 AM 303-674-5446

Triple Trekker Triathlon 500y swim, 12M bike, 5K run Colorado Springs, CO 6:00 AM Briargate YMCA 303-694-2030 annie@bkbltd.com www.bkbltd.com

US Half Marathon Cherry Creek Park, Denver, CO 8:00 AM infoden@usraceseries.com www.rundenver.com

Strawberry Shortcut 5K/10K Glenwood Springs, CO 7:00 AM Bank of Colorado 970-945-7760

Tortoise & Hare 5K Warren Park, Ft. Collins, CO 8:00 AM 970-225-3900 www.footoftherockies.com June 12

Race the Rockies Sprint Triathlon 750m swim, 24K bike, 5K run Boulder Reservoir, Boulder, CO 7:00 AM 303-530-2072 info@triraceusa.com www.triraceusa.com

Park City Marathon Park City, UT 6:00 AM 435-647-0314 info@pcmarathon.com www.pcmarathon.com

Race for the Cure 5K Albuquerque, NM 7:00 AM 505-220-0063 paulawilliams@att.net www.nmcure.com

Colorado Triathlon Half Ironman/Olympic/Sprint Longmont, CO 7:00 AM Union Reservoir 303-520-1604 erin@coloradomultisport.com www.coloradomultisport.com

Mini HaHa Triathlon 300y swim, 11M bike, 2M run/walk Broomfield, CO 7:00 AM Broomfield Community Center 303-464-5518 drachjaibun@ci.broomfield.co.us www.ci.broomfield.co.us

Coyote Cutoff and Beach Run 10K Montrose, CO 7:30 AM Tabegauche Trailhead off Kiowa Road 970-249-8536 suzewig@earthlink.com www.montrose.org/org/runners/

Garden of the Gods 10M Colorado Springs, CO 7:00 AM Garden of the Gods 719-473-2625 raceinfo@pikespeakmarathon.org www.pikespeakmarathon.org

Parker Firefighter’s 5K Parker, CO 8:00 AM 303-694-2030 annie@bkbltd.com www.bkbltd.com CMRA Waterton Canyon 10K Waterton Canyon, Littleton, CO 8:00 AM 303-279-7020 www.comastersrun.org Get Fitz Walk and Family Festival 3M/1M Fitzsimons, Denver, CO 8:00 AM 303-694-2030 annie@bkbltd.com www.bkbltd.com Ten Mile Creek 10K Old Town Hall, Frisco, CO 8:30 AM 303-635-2815 emgmh@emgcolorado.com

May / June 2004

Horsetooth Mountain Trail Run 8M Ft. Collins, CO 7:30 AM Horsetooth Mountain Park 970-493-6701 www.footoftherockies.com June 15 Kids All-Comers Track Meet Grand Junction, CO 5:30 PM Lincoln Park Track 970-254-FUNN June 18 Bighorn Mountain Wild & Scenic Trail Runs 30K, 50K, 50M, 100M Sheridan High School, Sheridan, WY 11:00 AM 307-672-5356 shspst@fiberpipe.net www.bighorntrailrun.com Prospector Trail 5K

Idaho Springs, CO 6:00 PM Idaho Springs Cemetery 303-674-5446

970-858-8869 www.mmstriders.org

June 19

Uni Hill 2K and Kid’s 1K Downtown Boulder, CO 6:00 PM 303-441-4938 wardj@ci.boulder.co.us www.boulderraceseries.com

Red Bull Divide & Conquer Adventure Race 13M Run, Paragliding, 27 Mile Kayak, 27 Mountain Bike Red Mountain Pass, Silverton, CO 970-331-4372 herbert.heneman@us.redbull.com www.redbulldivideandconquer.com San Juan Solstice 50 Mile Town Park, Lake City, CO 5:00 AM 970-944-2269 grayj@lakecity.net www.lakecity50.com The Pteranodon Ptrot 5K Fruita, CO 8:00 AM Museum of Western Colorado 970-858-0360 www.mmstriders.org June 20 Greeley Triathlon 600y swim, 13M bike, 5K run Centennial Pool, Greeley, CO 7:00 AM 303-520-1604 erin@coloradomultisport.com www.coloradomultisport.com Run for a Child’s Sake 5K/1M Washington Park, Denver, CO 8:00 AM 303-694-2030 annie@bkbltd.com www.bkbltd.com Estes Park Marathon & Optimist 10K/5K Estes Park, CO 7:00 AM 970-586-8189 info@epmarathon.org www.epmarathon.org Teva 10K @ 10,000 Feet Vail, CO 8:30 AM Mid-Vail Start 970-479-2280 mortiz@vailrec.com www.vailrec.com Joe Colton’s Off Road Adventure 5K/10M/15M Rollinsville, CO 9:00 AM 303.258.7113 lori.kinczel@igc.org www.joecoltonadventure.org June 22 Twilight Trail Race 10K Golden, CO 6:30 PM White Ranch Open Space/Upper Parking Lot 303-282-3921 info@runuphillracing.com www.runuphillracing.com June 23 St George Mile Central Park, St George, UT 8:00 AM 403-456-1436 skurt@bay-tech-group.com Dan Peterson Memorial Main Street Mile Grand Junction, CO 7:00 PM Main St and 19th

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June 26 Leadville 100 Training Run Weekend Leadville, CO 6:30 AM National Mining Hall of Fame Conference Center www.leadvilletrail100.com Dart for Art 5K Colorado Springs, CO 7:30 AM Monument Valley Park 719-447-1371 jpfoster2@earthlink.net www.pprrun.org Spring Creek Memorial 9M/3M Steamboat Springs, CO 8:00 AM Spring Creek Reservoir 970-879-1828 www.runningseries.com Slacker Half Marathon/5K/Relay Loveland Ski Area, Georgetown, CO 8:00 AM 303-679-2312 bluther@co.clear-creek.co.us www.active.com Little Run On The Prairie 5K/2K Lovell Park, Pueblo West, CO 8:00 AM 719-547-3725 www.socorunners.org Steamworks 1/2 Marathon Durango, CO 8:00 AM Baker’s Bridge to the Durango Sports Club 970-375-2413 mkelly@durangomarathon.com www.go-dmt.org Aspen Grove Trail Race HalfMarathon/10K Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO 8:00 AM 303-929-8681 john@exploreadventures.com www.exploreadventures.com Pilot Hill 25K/8K Trail Run Laramie, WY 8:30 AM 307-742-0971 alexander_brenda@hotmail.com June 27 Stadium Stampede 5K Denver, CO 8:00 AM INVESCO Field at Mile High 303-694-2030 annie@bkbltd.com www.bkbltd.com Turkey Flats Loop 15K Glade Park, CO 8:30 AM South of Glade Park Store 970-241-9497 www.mmstriders.org Saxon Mountain Hill Climb 15M/5M Georgetown Lake, Georgetown, CO 8:00 AM 303-674-5446 Spirit Sprint 5K

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july July 03 Firecracker 5K/10K Colorado Springs, CO 7:00 AM Briargate YMCA 719-635-8803 director@csgrandprix.com www.csgrandprix.com Women’s Distance Festival 5K City Park, Pueblo, CO 7:30 AM 719-564-6043 MARIJANE@uscolo.edu www.socorunners.org Gore Creek Gallup 5K Vail, CO 8:00 AM 303-694-2030 annie@bkbltd.com www.bkbltd.com Leadville Trail Marathon Leadville, CO 8:00 AM www.leadvilletrail100.com PPRR Nielsen Challenge 1M/2M Colorado Springs, CO 8:00 AM N. Monument Valley Park 719-633-2055 zguntam@juno.com www.pprrun.org July 04 Teva Vail Hill Climb 7.5M 2004 NACAC Mountain Championships Vail’s Mountain Haus, Vail, CO 8:30 AM 970-479-2280 mortiz@vailrec.com www.vailrec.com Lander 1/2 Marathon Centennial Park, Lander, WY 7:00 AM 307-332-3892 info@landerchamber.org www.windycitystriders.com Blue Ribbon 10K Memorial Park, Silverton, CO 7:30 AM 970-387-5522 www.silvertoncolorado.com Boogie’s Diner Buddy Run 5M Boogie’s Diner, Aspen, CO 8:00 AM 970-920-2130 www.buddyprogram.org Freedom Run 5K Evergreen, CO 8:00 AM Evergreen Middle School 303-674-6400 annie@bkbltd.com www.bkbltd.com Race for the Cure 5K Greeley, CO 8:00 AM

Washington Park, Denver, CO 8:00 AM 303-694-2030 annie@bkbltd.com www.bkbltd.com Steamboat Sprint 400 meter dash Steamboat Springs, CO 9:30 AM Lyon’s Drug Store cfreeman@steamboatsprings.net www.runningseries.com July 09

July 13 Casper Chase 5K 7th & Center St., Casper, WY 9:00 AM 307-237-1721 TCrunner262@aol.com www.windycitystriders.com

Hardrock 100M Silverton High School, Silverton, CO 6:00 AM 970-259-3693 www.run100s.com/HR/

All-Comers Track Meet Grand Junction, CO 5:00 PM Stocker Stadium, 12th & North Ave 970-254-FUNN www.mmstriders.org

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Canyon to Canyon 1/2 Marathon/ 10K East Canyon, UT 7:00 AM East Canyon Resorts 801-583-6281 sports-am@abac.com www.sports-am.com

Strength in Stride Walk 3M Denver, CO 7:00 PM City of Cuernavaca Park 303-694-2030 annie@bkbltd.com www.bkbltd.com

Far View Trail Run 8K Montrose, CO 7:30 AM Uncompahgre Plateau 970-240-8880 magoo@montrose.net www.montrose.org/org/runners/

July 17 Kendall Mountain Half-Marathon Silverton, CO Imperial Hotel 970-387-5522 silverton@frontier.net www.active.com

RMRR Trophy Series 2M Bible Park, Denver, CO 8:00 AM 303-871-8366 rmrr@rmrr.org www.rmrr.org

Balance Bar 24 Hr. Adventure Race Beaver Creek, CO 6:00 AM 203-352-5216 info@balancebaradventure.com www.balancebaradventure.com

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Pioneer Run 5K Colorado City, CO 7:00 AM Hollydot Gold Course 719-676-3353 wsgogarty@hotmail.com www.socorunners.org

Race the Rockies Sprint Triathlon Tri-Sprint (750m swim, 24k bike, 5k run) Lake Estes, Estes Park, CO 6:00 AM 303-530-2072 info@triraceusa.com www.triraceusa.com Summer Roundup 12K Trail Run Colorado Springs, CO 7:00 AM Bear Creek Park 719-473-2625 raceinfo@pikespeakmarathon.org www.pikespeakmarathon.org Fastrek Forest Challenge Trail 8M Barbour Forks, Idaho Springs, CO 8:00 AM 303-674-5446 Colorado Women’s Triathlon Tri-Sprint Union Reservoir, Longmont, CO 7:00 AM 303-520-1604 erin@coloradomultisport.com www.coloradomultisport.com CMRA Mountain Madness 12K Genesee, CO 8:00 AM Christies of Genesee 303-758-1934 www.comastersrun.org

Gothic to Crested Butte 8.3M Crested Butte, CO 8:00 AM 970-349-5304

Mountain Madness Half Marathon/ 10K/2M Steamboat Springs, CO 8:00 AM 9970-879-1250 www.runningseries.com

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Run For Hope 5K/3K Colorado Springs, CO 7:00:00 AM Prospect Lake 719-598-2953 patlockhart@worldnet.att.net www.pprrun.org Alex Hoag Run for Sunshine 5K/3K Colorado Springs, CO 8:00 AM Fred McKown Park 719-660-1346 kimhoag@adelphia.net www.alexhoagrun.org Race for the Cure 5K Aspen, CO 8:30 AM 970-920-0250 komenaspen@sopris.com www.aspenraceforthecure.com Saucony Snake River Scramble 5K/10K Trial Run Keystone Resort, Keystone, CO 9:00 AM 877-751-8880 info@xteraplanet.com www.xterraplanet.com July 18 Danskin Triathlon Tri-Sprint (.75K swim, 20K bike, 5K run) Aurora, CO 7:00 AM Aurora Reservoir 800-288-6749

triathlon@danskin.com www.danskin.com RMRR Marathon Training Series 10M Waterton Canyon, Littleton, CO 7:00 AM 303-871-8366 rmrr@rmrr.org www.rmrr.org Barr Trial Mountain Race 12M Manitou Springs, CO 7:00 AM COG Railway Station 719-685-5654 info@runpikespeak.com www.runpikespeak.com Donor Dash 5K Washington Park, Denver, CO 8:00 AM 303-694-2030 annie@bkbltd.com www.bkbltd.com Kremmling Days Classic 5K/10K Kremmling, CO 8:00 AM Kremmling Town Square 970-724-3472 info@kremmlingchamber.com www.kremmlingchamber.com July 22 Pearl St. Mile Downtown, Boulder, CO 303-413-7316 americasdowntownmile.com July 24 Desert News Marathon/10K Salt Lake City, UT 7/24/2004 www.desnews.com/run/one.htm Women’s Distance Festival 5K Colorado Springs, CO 7:30 AM N. Monument Valley Park 719-635-3833 corunco@aol.com www.pprrun.org Heather Kelly/Jim Borgerding Memorial Run/Walk 5K Run, 2M Walk Casper, WY 8:00 AM Pathway by Crossroads Park 307-266-4006 mikeb@trib.com www.windycitystriders.com Mt Sopris Runoff 16.7M Basalt, CO 8:00 AM 970-927-4135 bgabow@hotmail.com Snow King Hill Climb 2.3M Jackson Hole, WY 9:00 AM 307-733-5056 jharkness@tetonwyo.org www.tetonwyo.org July 25 Loveland SERTOMA Splash and Dash Triathlon 400m swim, 15M bike, 5K run Loveland, CO 7:00 AM Mountain View Pool 303-520-1604 erin@coloradomultisport.com www.coloradomultisport.com My Way or the Tri Way 800 yard swim, 15 mile bike, 4 mile run Aurora Reservoir, Aurora, CO

7:30 AM 720-934-2345 abregman@comcast.net www.thetriway.com Teva Vail Half Marathon Vista Bahn, Vail, CO 9:00 AM 970-479-2280 mortiz@vailrec.com www.vailrec.com Crag Crest Trail Run 10.5M Grand Junction, CO 9:00 AM Island Lake 970-241-0478 doowahdiddee@aol.com www.mmstriders.org July 31 Hamlin Scramble Trail 9M St. Mary’s Glacier, CO 8:00 AM 303-674-5446 Classic 10K Colorado Springs, CO 7:00 AM Tiffany Square 719-635-8803 director@csgrandprix.com www.csgrandprix.com Miles for Miracles 4M Highlands Ranch, CO 8:00 AM 303-694-2030 annie@bkbltd.com www.bkbltd.com Moonlight Madness Prediction Run 8K Pueblo, CO 8:30 PM 3685 Verde Rd (exit 87 off I-25) 719-561-3343 www.socorunners.org

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Hit the Dirt... Trail Review

Greenland Trail

Douglas County, Greenland, Colorado by Derek Griffiths

The majestic views of Pikes Peak are mesmerizing and with trains zipping by to the west, the trail transports you to a simpler time. If you’re lucky, you’ll see elk, mule deer, coyotes, squirrels and a variety of birds. 44

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reenland was once a bustling village and shipping point. The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad were built through the area in 1871. A few years later, the 20-acre town was thriving with two general stores, a post office, a school, and even a saloon. Two railroad stations shipped out livestock, potatoes, grains, milk, building stones and pottery. The town began to decline in the 1930s, but the ranching industry has survived.

Ten miles of trails now wind through the rolling grasslands and pine forests that surround Greenland. The 3,600 acre open space park is west of Interstate 25 at exit 167. If you travel between Denver and Colorado Springs as much as I do, the Greenland trail is a perfect place to squeeze in a run. The park is right off the interstate in southern Douglas County, so you don’t waste travel time when you’re in a rush. The majestic views of Pikes Peak are mesmerizing and with trains zipping by to the west, the trail transports you to a simpler time… and once on the trail, the interstate to the east is hardly noticable. If you’re lucky, you’ll see elk, mule deer, coyotes, squirrels and a variety of birds. For an 11-mile run, follow the Kipps Loop Trail. Start at the Greenland trail head at 6,908 feet. The trail will be fairly level for the first mile, then you’ll take a left turn at the fork in the trail and head south. You’ll gain about 500 feet in elevation by the time the trail turns west and meets the Greenland Trail. Turn right onto the Greenland Trail, which travels north until it meets the parking lot. Another option is to follow the railroad along the rolling hills of the Greenland Trail. The wide, dirt trail travels south, then meets County Line Road at the four mile mark. Benches and picnic tables dot the trail, so if you’re out for a family hike, there’s plenty of places to stop for a rest or a snack. At County Line Road you can turn around and run the four miles back to the parking lot. For more of a challenge, you can cross the road and then run for about one mile to the trailhead at Palmer Lake. The trail is also open to mountain bikers and horseback riders, although it’s never been crowded with either on the days that I’ve visited. At the trailhead, there’s plenty of parking for both cars and horse trailers. A large picnic shelter has been built that resembles the town’s old mercantile building. You can read more about the trail and the history of the area at the picnic area.

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“The best way to help other human beings is to give them an education. You can buy them better clothes and buy them food, but with an education, you are helping them become self sufficient and get out of poverty.” - Peter Tanui

Six hours west of Nairobi, Kenya, there’s a tiny village where you can run forever on the dirt roads, past miles of green fields bursting with tea leaves. But although Kapsabet, Kenya is a runner’s paradise, the village is extremely poor. With an average income of $100 a month, large families live in tiny homes with dirt floors, no windows, no plumbing and no electricity. There also aren’t any telephones, refrigerators, washing machines, ovens or any of the basic appliances that most Americans can’t imagine living without. “You immediately see the overwhelming need,” said Creigh Kelley who recently visited the town, “You can taste the need and see that with small amounts of money, you can make a major change.” Kapsabet, Kenya is the birthplace of one of Colorado’s fastest 5K and 10K runners. Peter Tanui grew up in the village and graduated from the town’s Kipture Primary School more than a decade ago. “In Kenya, the rich are really rich and the poor are really poor,” Tanui noted. Tanui left Kenya for America when he was awarded a running scholarship to Lubbock Christian University in 1994. After four years at the school, he became a 12-time All American and the Kipture School’s first college graduate. Tanui now lives and trains in Colorado, but he hasn’t forgotten his hometown or the tiny school with inadequate space and supplies. Just a few months ago, Tanui started the Kipture Primary School Fund to help rebuild the crumbling school. So far the foundation has raised a few thousand dollars, enough funds for the library walls, the floor and the roofing materials. More than 400 pounds of school 46

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supplies and books were donated by Sandburg Elementary School in Littleton. But there’s still so much to be done. Tanui’s goal is to raise a total of $65,000 to build a kitchen, to complete the library, to provide better sanitation and outhouses, to bring electricity to the school and to eventually endow a scholarship so that the village’s children can become more educated. The school was originally built by the British in 1942, but because of insufficient funds, there wasn’t enough money to complete it. Still, more than sixty years later, the school is the only source of education for more than 400 students from kindergarten to eighth grade. Tanui first had the idea of raising money to help the school while in college. He felt fortunate to be able to attend college in America and wanted to help others. “It’s always been my dream to give back to the school if I could succeed in America, but when I finished college, I had nothing. I didn’t know where to even start.” When Creigh and Annie Kelley traveled to Kenya last year with Tanui, they were shocked at the conditions. Yet they were amazed at how intelligent and hardworking the children were. When the students first saw the couple, they swarmed around them shouting “Mzungu! Mzungu!” which means ‘white person’ because they had never seen white people before. They were fascinated with Annie’s red nail polish and thrilled when she gave each child a stick of chewing gum (she bought 600 pieces for just $2.50). “They’re extremely bright, they just don’t have any money,” Creigh remembers. “And because the school doesn’t have a kitchen, many of the children had to run for several miles just to get home for lunch.” It’s hard to imagine

many American kids running to school and back several times a day, only to have to gather firewood or fetch water when they got home at night. After spending a few days in Kapsabet, the Kelley’s decided that something could be done to improve the children’s education. They had seen that the children read from school books that were decades old and they didn’t have many school supplies to use. The parent’s committee also made a plea for help to Creigh and Annie. “I’ve decided that this is going to be a labor of love,” Creigh said, “And it won’t take huge amounts of money to make an enormous difference.” Tanui said that the Kelley’s inspired him to make his dream come true, “I was surprised and delighted that they wanted to help. Creigh told me that we could do this. He gave me hope.” Tanui knows why people should help rebuild his former school. “For me, the best way to help other human beings is to give them an education. You can buy them better clothes and buy them food, but with an education, you are helping them become self sufficient and get out of poverty.” You can help Tanui by sending a donation to “Kipture Primary School Fund” at BKB Ltd., PO Box 4184, Englewood, CO 80155. The foundation is a nonprofit organization run entirely by volunteers. After the project’s completion, Parthenia Jones, president of the Potts Trotters running club, plans to travel to Kapsabet to dedicate the new buildings in memory of Steve Muniz, who was a friend of Tanui and a Potts Trotter. You can look at more pictures by logging onto www.bkbltd.com/kenya.htm.

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