Colorado Runner - Issue 82: Winter 2018/2019

COLORADO’S FASTEST RUNNERS

OUR LIST OF THE YEAR’S TOP TIMES INSIDE

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FEATURES 8 // NUTRITION ADVANTAGE The latest on sport supplements. Should a buyer beware? Plus, common supplements that may work to improve fitness.

10 // TOP TIMES Check out Colorado’s fastest running times from the past year in the marathon and half marathon.

Plus, take a look at the top overall Colorado records in the marathon.

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14 // THE FAST LANE The U.S. Olympic marathon trials, which began in Alamosa, recently celebrated a 50-year anniversary.

18 // TRAINING EDGE A mental health guide for athletes.

30 // THE LIGHTER SIDE Get to know the DeMartini Twins.

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6 // RUNNING SHORTS 20 // RACE REPORTS 24 // RACE RESULTS 28 // EVENT GUIDE

COLORADO RUNNER Editor-In-Chief // Jessica Griffiths Jessica@coloradorunnermag.com

Contributing Writers // Tim Bergsten, Nancy Clark, Libby

James, Bruce Kirschner, Rachel Tambling

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PU B LI S H E R ’ S LET TE R

Avoid End of Season Burnout FUEL FOR EVERY DAY

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any athletes start strong in the spring, and then train hard all summer and into the fall. But often, runners can run out of energy, both mental and physical, before the end of the long season.

By incorporating some key elements into your training routine, you can avoid the fate of end of season burn out.

1. Prioritize events –

Create a schedule that has a handful of events that are the most important part of your year. Make these events your priority above all others. Peak for these races, with an appropriate build up phase, taper, and recovery. Make all other events secondary.

2. Don’t race too often – There are so many amazing events that you just want to do them all!

Every weekend, you could be out racing. But don’t. You need to have time for training.

3. Make time for fun – Maybe there are a few races that you want to do as a team with your

friends or coworkers. Or maybe you want to run a race alongside your kids. Make time for fun events, where you can go slow and not worry about setting a personal best. Don’t look at every event as a competitive event that you have to run all out. That strategy will definitely let you enjoy attending and participating in events, without burning out too early in the season.

4. Plan for problems – Sometimes a cold strikes at the worst time, derailing your plans for a

Sunday long run. Or horrible weather hits and you have to run a key tempo run on the treadmill.

Maybe work keeps you too late for your weekday group run. Sometimes things happen that are out of your control. You need to expect the unexpected and adapt to problems that come up.

5. Take breaks – It may sound crazy to take a few intentional breaks when you’re at your fittest,

but within a long season of running, it can be a welcome relief to schedule a few weeks of down time and unstructured training. Especially if you know that you have a vacation planned or a busy week at work, it can give you the mental and physical rest that you need without hurting your level of fitness.

6. Don’t peak too early – If you hit your peak level of fitness too early, it can be difficult to

maintain. You may end up worn down or possibly injured trying to stay at your top level of fitness and peak weight for too long. So plan your peak strategically.

7. Be Self Aware – Monitor how you feel and how your body is doing on a constant basis. Know

when to back off or slow down and when to push harder. By being aware of your nutrition, sleep, stress levels, and heart rate, you can adjust as you go during the season. Visit a massage therapist or chiropractor if needed to get you back on track when your body starts to break down.

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Mom Runs in 50 National Parks for Cancer Awareness

Nine months after Gil Schaenzle of Evergreen lost her only child, 21 year old daughter Anna Rose to neuroendocrine (NET) cancer, Gil carried on with her and her daughter’s mission and ran in 50 national parks across the United States. The demanding pursuit in honor of Anna was designed to raise awareness to an often times misdiagnosed form of cancer.

Gil crossed the finish line at Rocky Mountain National Park – the same national park where she and husband Fred used to take Anna as a small child.

Gil says, “This challenge didn’t heal me, but the hope that we might use our grief to help save another life is what kept me going.

Anna was so strong and fearless and I think we all need to be warriors like her.”

Gil’s National Park runs helped raise over $12,000 in donations for the Healing NET Foundation to bring education and awareness to medical providers, patients, and caregivers. Gil shares, “I received an email from a man who heard my story, and as a result his doctors finally confirmed he had neuroendocrine tumors after months of inconclusive tests and uncertainty. Current statistics show an average of five to six years before patients get a correct diagnosis, and the fact that my journey made a difference in at least one life is worth all the miles.”

Gil accumulated 42,000 miles as she traveled across 35 states, and completed 350 miles on foot in 50 National Parks, along with 12 National Monuments and 2 National Preserves.

McKeever Wins World Age Group Triathlon Title

Madeline McKeever, 31, of Denver, captured the world championship title in the women’s 30-34 age-group at the 2018 Isuzu IRONMAN® 70.3® World Championship triathlon in Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa on Saturday, September 1. McKeever completed the event in 4:36:56 (swim: 32:41; bike: 02:32:15; run: 01:25:11), beating out the top athletes in her age group. The race encompassed a 1.2-mile (1.9K) swim that started at King’s Beach and proceeded with an open-water swim in the Indian Ocean, followed by a one-loop, 56-mile (90K) bike course that took athletes around the Nelson Mandela Bay area. The event capped off with a two-lap, 13.1-mile (21K) run.

The two-day event saw approximately 4,500 registered athletes from 48 U.S. States and 102 countries, regions and territories compete in this world-renowned event, marking it the largest field of any IRONMAN triathlon to-date. Athletes ranged in age from 18 to 78.

Boulder Road Runners 60+ Team Captures Golds

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THE BOULDER ROAD RUNNER MEN 60+ TEAM AT THEIR RECENT USATF HALF MARATHON WIN IN ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN. PICTURED LEFT TO RIGHT: ROGER SAYRE, HEATH HIBBARD, NATE ANDERSON, GEORGE BRAUN, AND MARTIN LASCELLES.

& Field Masters Half Marathon National Championship in Ann Arbor, Michigan on June 2 and the USATF Masters Mile National Championship in Flint, Michigan on August 24.

In the half marathon, BRR’s Roger Sayre won the 60-64 age group with a 1:19 finish and Heath Hibbard was the first 65-69 year old with a time of 1:28. BRR finished nearly 19 minutes ahead of the second place team.

Other BRR team members in Ann Arbor were Martin Lascelles (1:28), George Braun (1:29), and Nate Anderson (1:30).

In the Flint mile race, BRR’s 60+ team of Roger Sayre (5:15), Jeff Barros (5:51), and Doug Bell (6:10) captured team gold again with Sayre the top overall 60-64 age group finisher. Jeff Barros finished 6th place in the same age group and Doug Bell was 4th in the 65-69 age group.

The team is currently in second place in the 2018 USATF Masters Grand Prix National Championship race series.

Colorado Runners Compete in World Mountain Champs

Top mountain runners competed in the 34th annual World Mountain Running Championship in Andorra. The course featured a challenging mix of mountain roads, dirt single-track and steep ski slopes, climbing to the summit of Andorra’s Grand Valira ski area.

The junior women’s race featured four Coloradans under the age of 20. Anna Shults of Longmont finished in 14th, Joslin Blair of Eagle came in 18th, Quinn McConnell of Erie was 25th and Soleil Gaylord of Telluride was 45th. Gaylord came into the race with a cold and was not 100% while making the first climb toward the back of the pack. This was good enough for a 6th out of 13 teams with a total of 57 points.

Shults, 17, said, “Today, my goal for the race was to run fearlessly. I really wanted to focus on staying mentally tough when it got difficult. I loved having all the U.S. fans out there screaming for me and being able to race

with some of the best girls from Colorado was truly an amazing experience.”

Blair, 17, commented, “Running in this race was an amazing experience. The course was definitely the hardest one I’ve ever run and a great learning experience. The mountains of Andorra are absolutely stunning as well. It was such an honor to race for the US!”

In the junior men’s race, David Cardenas, 18, of Grand Junction finished in 42nd. The U.S. junior men finished 7th out of 13 teams with 87 points. Cardenas said, “My recommendation for anyone attempting the World Mountain Running Championship is to get a good start and maintain!”

As the defending team gold medalists, the expectations were high for the U.S. senior women team prior to the event. Allie McLaughlin, who is from Colorado Springs, Addie Bracy of Longmont and Kasie Enman had been top 10 finishers at previous editions of this event and newcomer Annie Bersagel, who is from Greeley has a 2:28:29 marathon PR.

Bersagel finished first for the U.S. in 17th place followed by Bracy in 20th.

McLaughlin moved up to 26th place just two seconds ahead of Enman in 27th place. The U.S. women ended up in 5th place with 63 points.

Bersagel, 35, said, “My race went well and it was gratifying to finish in the top 20 in my first Mountain Championships. It was a beautiful day in Andorra!”

McLaughlin, 27, commented, “It got rough fast, but I was able to stay calm thinking the race would be most competitive in the top half of the course. I didn’t make up as much as I thought I would.”

The U.S. senior men’s team was primed and ready to race for medals from the opening meters of the race. Under sunny skies and comfortable temperatures, spectators at the finish had a clear view of runners approaching almost 1K from the finish. Joseph Gray of Colorado Springs finished fourth. Andy Wacker of Boulder came in 26th place with Matt Daniels of Boulder in 44th, which was good enough for a 6th place U.S. team finish with 62 points.

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Gray, 34, stated, “After being injured prior to last years championship, my fitness was good this year but I underestimated my competition and found myself playing catch up at the end of the race. For every move I made early in the race, the three Ugandan runners had a strong counterargument.”

According to USATF Mountain Ultra Trail chairperson Nancy Hobbs, “Not every day on the mountain produces the results you expect, but each and every one of our team members laid it on the line and ran their best in Andorra. I am so very proud of our team and congratulate the staff on being there 100% for the athletes.”

Middaugh Wins Third Xterra Pan Am Tri Title in Four Years

More than 800 triathletes and trail runners from around the country raced at the XTERRA Pan America / USA Championship triathlon at Snowbasin Resort near Ogden, Utah. The challenge started with a one-mile swim in Pineview Reservoir (4,900-feet elevation), followed with an 18-mile mountain bike leg that climbed more than 3,000-feet to the top of Sardine Peak (7,300-feet elevation) and culminated with a 7-mile trail run on trails in the Wasatch Range.

Josiah Middaugh from Eagle-Vail captured the 15th annual XTERRA Pan American off-road triathlon elite title. It’s the third win in four years for Middaugh. It wasn’t until after the bike-to-run transition that Middaugh realized he was in the lead. “I thought I was chasing and was pleased to find out otherwise. But I always go as hard as I can from start to finish no matter what position I’m in. You can only do what you can do, and you never know what’s going on with other people.”

Sam Long from Boulder was third in 2:31:18. As the youngest elite in the field, just 22-years old, Long surprised only himself with his performance.

“My primary goal coming into the Pan Am Championship was to convince myself I belong at XTERRA Worlds in Maui,” he said. “I wasn’t even thinking about going to Maui this year, but after XTERRA Beaver Creek when I finished third behind Mauricio and Josiah, Mau came up to me and said, ‘You gotta go to Maui. You deserve to be there.’ I thought, if two world champions think I should go and I qualify, then maybe I should go.”

Allison Baca of Boulder was fifth in the women’s pro race in 3:07:18. Deanna McCurdy of Littleton captured the women’s amateur title.

THE WOMEN’S TRI FOR THE CURE ATTRACTED ATHLETES TO CHERRY CREEK STATE PARK IN DENVER.

of 23,074 qualified applicants were accepted, pending verification of their qualifying performance. The rest of the 30,000 participant field is made up of runners who are invited or who gain entry from charity teams.

Qualifying standards will be five minutes faster for all age groups, starting with the 2020 Boston Marathon. Tom Grilk of the Boston Athletic Association said, “We have adjusted the qualifying standards for the 2020 Boston Marathon, as the number of marathoners who have submitted applications to run the Boston Marathon has increased significantly during the most recent two registration years.

We forecast the interest in running Boston as continuing. We know that the running community pays close attention to our qualifying times for their age group because they are important factors in their training, racing and race selection. As such, for the 2020 Boston Marathon, adjustments to all age group qualifying standards will be five minutes faster than previous standards.”

Since 1970, the Boston Marathon has featured qualifying standards as a means of entry. The last time the B.A.A. updated qualify-

ing standards was for the 2013 race, when all qualifying times were lowered by five minutes.

Simpson Wins 7th New York 5th Avenue Mile

How fast can you travel a mile in Manhattan? It was easy for Boulder’s Jenny Simpson, the winner of the 2018 New Balance 5th Avenue Mile. In just 4:18.8, she ran a gutsy race to triumph over a stacked field in cool and rainy conditions. Simpson extended her 5th Avenue Mile victory total to a mind-boggling seven.

“It’s kind of slick, so I wanted to play into that apprehension and take it out hard and say, if you want to run this race, you’ve got to come with me,” said Simpson, the event record-holder. “We’re going to risk it all, life and limb.”

For most of the pro runners, the New Balance 5th Avenue Mile was their final race of the 2018 outdoor season.

Boston Marathon Toughens Time Standards

Runners had to be nearly five minutes faster than the official Boston Marathon qualifying times to actually get to run next year’s race. Qualifiers who were four minutes, 52 seconds or faster than the qualifying time for their age group and gender have been accepted into the 2019 Boston Marathon. A total

COLORADO ELITES JENNY SIMPSON AND EMMA COBURN LEAD THE PACK AT THE 5TH AVENUE MILE IN NEW YORK.

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N UTR ITI O N ADVANTAG E

SPORTS SUPPLEMENTS: BUYER BEWARE?

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he global sports nutrition supplement market (including sports foods, drinks and supplements) accounted for $28+ billion in 2016 and, with the help of rigorous advertising, is expected to almost double by 2022. How many of the products are moneymaking ploys marketed to uninformed runners?

Unfortunately, too many.

Due to the plethora of products that have infiltrated gyms, fitness centers and professional running teams, I get questioned by casual and competitive run8 coloradorunnermag.com

ners alike: Which of these supplements are actually effective?? Hands down, the most effective way to enhance your running pace is via your day-to-day sports diet, coordinated with a consistent training program.

Eating the right foods at the right times creates the essential foundation to your success as a runner.

That said, specific sports supplements could make a minor contribution to performance improvements for certain athletes. If you are wondering if the grass is greener on the other side of your sports diet’s fence, here are some facts from the 2018 IOC Consensus Statement: Dietary Supplements and the High-Performance Athlete.

• Supplement use varies across sports. It increases with the athletes’ training level and age, is higher in men than women and

is strongly inf luenced by perceived cultural norms. (For example, “Everyone” on my team takes creatine, so I do, too.)

• Before making any decisions regarding sports supplements, you want to get a nutritional assessment to be sure your diet supports your performance goals. No amount of supplements will compensate for a lousy diet. To find a local sports dietitian who is a Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics (CSSD), use the referral network at www.SCANdpg.org.

• Despite the ads you see for a zillion sports supplements, very few have strong proof of directly enhancing performance. These include caffeine, creatine, specific buffering agents, and nitrate.

• Very little research with supplements of-

Definition of a sports supplement: A food, food component, nutrient, or non-food compound that is purposefully ingested in addition to the habitually consumed diet with the aim of achieving a specific health and/or performance benefit.

fers definitive evidence, in part because the research is rarely done with elite athletes under real life conditions. Real life includes 1) multi-day track meets, competitions or events, 2) “stacking” supplements (such as mixing caffeine and nitrates) and 3) determining if, let’s say, an elite runner responds the same way to a supplement as does a Division-3 collegiate runner.

Real life also includes your unique microbiome (the bacteria in your gut that inf luence your overall health and wellbeing). We do not yet know how much a microbiome—which varies 80% to 90% between individuals—inf luences the effectiveness of a sports supplement and contributes to different responses.

Supplements are used for many different reasons. Here’s a breakdown of supplements by categories.

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upplements used to prev ent/

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Nutrients of concern for runners include iron (to prevent anemia), calcium and vitamin D (for bone health), as well as iodine, folate and B-12 for specific sub-groups of runners, including vegans and women who might become pregnant. The basic supplement question is: If you are deficient, what led to that deficiency and what dietary changes will you make to resolve the issue so that it doesn’t happen again?

2. S . Sports drinks, energy drinks, gels, upplements used to prov ide

energy

electrolyte replacements, protein supplements, energy bars, and liquid meals are often used to help meet energy needs before, during and after exercise. They are a convenient, albeit more expensive, alternative to common foods. They aren’t magical or superior to natural food. They are just easy to carry, standardized and eliminate decisions about which foods would offer, let’s say, the “recommended ratio” of carbs, protein and fat.

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prov e perfor m a nce .

Caffeine, creatine monohydrate, nitrate, sodium bicarbonate, and possibly beta-alanine are the very few performance enhancing supplements that have adequate support to suggest they may offer a marginal performance gain. If you choose to use them, be sure to test them thoroughly during hard training that mimics the competitive event. Choose a brand that is NSF Certified for Sport, to minimize the risk of consuming harmful drugs.

Every year, athletes get suspended for failing a drug test after they unknowingly took a supplement with an illegal ingredient...

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Some supplements claim to enhance performance indirectly by supporting a runner’s health and limiting illness. “Immune support” supplements that have moderate research to support their health claims include probiotics, vitamin D, and vitamin C. Supplements that lack strong support for their immuneenhancing claims include zinc, glutamine, Echinacea, vitamin E, and fish oil. Tart cherry juice and curcumin show promise.

A supplement with strong evidence to indirectly improve performance by helping build muscle is creatine monohydrate.

Questionable supplements without strong evidence for runners include gelatin and HMB.

A dverse effects

If some supplements are good, would more be better? No, supplements can cause harm. Too much iron can lead to iron overload. Too much caffeine increases anxiety. Supplements have been linked to liver toxicity, heart problems and seizures.

In the USA in 2015, dietary supplements contributed to about 23,000 emergency department visits. That’s partially because manufacturers are not required to show safety or assure quality of a supplement.

Athletes beware— and try to simply eat better to run better?

Nancy Clark, MS, RD is the author of the Sports Nutrition Guidebook and Food Guide for Marathoners. The books are available at www. nancyclarkrd.com. For online education, visit www.NutritionSportsExerciseCEUs.com.

A Few Common Sports Supplements There is no one single sport supplement that works for all athletes. To better understand why, we need a more specific scientific approach to studying supplements based on age, sex, body size, training status, sport, and genetics. That would help us give better advice to target groups of runners, rather than simply make population-wide recommendations. Many athletes take multiple supplements, so research with "stacked" supplements would also be helpful. Here's some of what we do know:

Creatine: Creatine enables an athlete to lift harder in the training room—and build more

muscle. But not everyone is a responder. For example, 3 of 11 subjects in a research study had a strong positive response, 5 had a slight response—and 3 did not respond at all. Why not?

Maybe their daily diets impacted their baseline creatine levels? Creatine is found in meat and other animal proteins. When a meat-eating athlete goes on a meat-free lacto-ovo-vegetarian diet (milk, eggs, beans) for 26 days, his or her creatine levels will drop. To normalize the level, athletes could take creatine monohydrate supplements (the most effective form of creatine).

Caffeine: Caffeine is a known energy-enhancing

sport supplement. Your response to caffeine will depend on your genetics. Caffeine works best when you are starting to fatigue. Runners can consume it in coffee, tea, soda, gels, gum, and pills, preferably consumed with carbs.

Baking Soda: Sodium bicarbonate is used by some

sprinters to buffer the lactic acid that builds up during intense bursts of exercise. Research suggests peak response times can vary widely, from 40-165 minutes. This variability makes it hard for exercise scientists to offer firm recommendations; hence, outcomes vary. Sub-elite athletes seem to respond better then elite athletes. Because sodium bicarbonate easily causes nausea and vomiting, a solution is to take it in gastro-resistant capsules.

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WERE YOU ONE OF THE FASTEST runners in Colorado last year? We’ve created a list so you can see who has the fleetest feet in the state. We picked two different distances - the marathon and the half marathon - and considered all USATF certified race courses in our rankings.

Also included are the All-Colorado age group records for the marathon and half marathon.

Each athlete’s best time is presented.

We’re humans, not bots. We manually comb through thousands of names in search of this year’s top times. But we’re bound to miss someone. So e-mail derek@coloradorunnermag.com if you think there’s a mistake and we’ll print the correction in the next issue. We have only listed the courses that we know are officially certified by USA Track and Field.

MARATHON TIMES

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KEY: ADT = American Discovery Trail; BTH = All-Out Beat the Heat; FFM = All-Out Fall Fest; AV = Aspen Valley; BBM = Boulder Backroads; BRM = Breckenridge Road Marathon; CCM = Colfax; CM = Colorado Marathon; CSM = Colorado Springs; EPM = Estes Park; GVM = Grand Valley; MSM = Mt. Sneffels; RRM = REVEL Rockies; SM = Steamboat

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OVERALL Ryan Herzog

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38 Littleton

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Grant Bell Gabe Cuadra Chad Martin Paul Petersen Bashash Walio Kevin Ellis Brent Bailey Matt Caldwell Seth Garbett

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Denver 2:28:50 Aurora 2:31:03 Arvada 2:33:17 Fort Collins 2:33:25 Gunnison 2:34:48 Highlands Ranch2:37:53 Colo Springs 2:40:03 Denver 2:41:14 Denver 2:41:40

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RRM ADT RRM CM CM CCM CM CCM CCM

29 AND UNDER

Times from October 1, 2017 - September 30, 2018

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Petru Rusu Travis Decker Jacob Hughes Anthony Kynkel Zachary Allen

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Aurora Colo Springs USAF Academy Durango Parker

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2:42:18 CCM 2:43:34 CM 2:46:01 CM 2:47:30 MSM 2:48:21 CCM

30-34 name

Kyle Smith Eddie Perez Michael Bowlds Seth Koslowski Michael Chavez

age cit y

33 31 33 34 33

Longmont Denver Denver Westminster Fort Collins

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race

2:50:14 2:51:03 2:51:10 2:55:45 2:56:21

CM CM CCM CCM ADT

35-39 name

age cit y

time

race

Mario Macias Philipp Ponomarev Michael Hinterberg

37 Alamosa

2:41:41 MSM

35 Aurora

2:47:24 RRM

39 Loveland

2:47:40 CM

Aaron Anton

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Eldorado 2:51:13 RRM Springs Steamboat 35 2:55:02 SM Springs

Jesse Wilkins

40-44 name

age cit y

David Martinez Pat Sullivan Eric Hallam Octavio Botelle Jefferson Arbuckle

44 41 41 40 41

Colo Springs Denver Colo Springs Thornton Boulder

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2:55:42 2:55:47 2:57:53 2:59:46 2:59:55

CCM CM CM CCM RRM

45-49 name

Joseph Lauro Michael Hewitt Mark Shapiro Ko Nishimuru David Martinez

age cit y

47 48 47 45 45

Evergreen Denver Denver Longmont Colo Springs

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2:44:04 2:49:07 2:57:20 3:06:12 3:08:23

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RRM CM CCM BBM BBM

2:27:22 RRM Photography By REVEL ROCKIES AND METRO PHOTOS

50-54 name

Rafael Pacheco John Ferullo Paul Harris James Graham Patrick Rutty

age cit y

52 52 51 54 51

Boulder Wheat Ridge Westminster Boulder Littleton

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2:55:18 3:00:24 3:03:09 3:04:45 3:06:54

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RRM RRM CCM RRM RRM

55-59 name

Robert Pratt Brent Bell Timothy Barry Ken DePinto Samuel Trevino

age cit y

58 Pueblo 57 Erie 57 Colo Springs Highlands 55 Ranch 58 Westminster

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race

3:23:41 RRM 3:25:38 RRM 3:26:23 ADT 3:27:13 RRM 3:28:53 CCM

60-64 name

Paul Hughes Michael Blanchette Bryan Baroffio Stewart Leyhe Joseph Lothringer

age cit y

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60 Pagosa Springs 2:58:21 CM 61 Denver

3:28:02 RRM

60 Grand Junction 3:28:04 AVM 60 Centennial 3:29:13 RRM 61 Centennial

3:36:59 CM

65-69 name

Heath Hibbard David Stoner Richard Park Steve Joyce Craig Hayes

age cit y

65 65 65 69 66

Montrose Longmont Colo Springs Loveland Colo Springs

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3:18:58 3:27:20 3:34:30 3:37:27 3:59:43

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AVM CCM RRM RRM ADT

70+ name

Sheldon Steinbock

age cit y

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race

76 Fort Collins 4:36:12 FFM

RYAN HERZOG OF LITTLETON RAN THE FASTEST MARATHON IN 2018 WITH HIS 2:27:22 AT THE REVEL ROCKIES MARATHON.

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Ed Youngberg Stanley Wolff-Mills Wes Rutt Ernest Moore

75 70 72 71

Lakewood Wellington Fort Collins Denver

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4:37:01 4:50:38 4:59:33 5:28:22

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OVERALL name

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Emily Van Meter Katie Sandfort Lisa Kabat Julie Olsen-Smith Emily Thompson Elena Gomez Joanna Masloski Ruby Bode Ashlee Franklin Monica Obsitos

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Colo Springs Denver Arvada Parker Denver Colo Springs Lone Tree Loveland Highlands 34 Ranch 30 Lafayette

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2:56:51 3:00:51 3:08:16 3:08:53 3:11:18 3:12:32 3:15:05 3:16:38

CCM ADT CM CCM RRM RRM CCM CCM

3:17:36 CM 3:18:48 CCM

29 AND UNDER name

Miranda Gomez Hannah Billings Cassandra Geerdts Addie Rastall Makenzie Bothner

age cit y

23 21 26 26 22

Glendale Boulder Denver Fort Collins Denver

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3:19:07 3:20:19 3:20:43 3:21:14 3:23:33

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50th Anniversary of the First U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials

PAST MARATHON TRIALS ATHLETES MET AT ADAMS STATE UNIVERSITY IN ALAMOSA, CO. BACK ROW (LEFT TO RIGHT): ROBERT DEINES, DR. DAVID COSTILL, BILL CLARK, AMBY BURFOOT, ELLEN CLARK, HAL HIGDON, JOHN PETERSON, TOM HEINONEN, JAN FRISBY. FRONT ROW (L TO R): FRANK SHORTER, KENNY MOORE, GEORGE YOUNG, BILLY MILLS, COACH JOE VIGIL, STEVE GACHUPIN.

S

unday, August 18, 1968 was a momentous day for Alamosa, the small rural south central Colorado city nestled in the San Luis Valley.

But this day would also be a historic one for the nascent sport of American long distance running. On this day, Alamosa was the site of the first ever U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials. Prior to 1968 a committee selected the U.S. Olympic marathon team after their review of performances.

But this was the year that Mexico City would be hosting the Olympic Games at an altitude of 7,350’ above sea level.

Joe I. Vigil, coach of the cross country and track and field program at Alamosa’s Adams State College, saw an opportunity.

Alamosa had a 7,544 foot elevation. So why not take advantage of this and bring America’s best long distance runners to town to train at altitude? Vigil teamed up with American marathon record holder Leonard “Buddy” Edelen, who was already on campus as a graduate assistant, and some Alamosa businessmen who were interested in bringing Olympic activity to the city. For two and a half years Vigil and Edelen traveled to wherever the American Athletic Union (AAU) had a meeting to promote their idea. At the AAU 1967 annual meeting in Chicago, Alamosa was chosen to host the first ever Olympic Marathon Trials.

According to Vigil, “We wanted to make it fair with head-to-head competition.

There were also other places in the U.S. that were at a high altitude and may have been interested in hosting the trials, but they weren’t as well organized as us.”

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Under the auspices of the AAU, individual long distance runners and teams from all over the country were invited to train in Alamosa and compete in the marathon trials. There would be no qualifying standards – anyone who believed they could go the distance could register. Entry fees were set at $2 for individuals and $5 for teams. First class housing would be available on campus for $3 a night.

The AAU required that all participants undergo a medical examination. Physicians in the area refused Vigil’s request for pro bono services. Dr. David Costill, director of the Human Performance Laboratory at Ball State University, and a few of his friends, accepted Vigil’s invitation to perform physiological tests, including hydration, on the trials registrants.

Vigil and Edelen brought in Ted Corbitt, a pioneer in the accurate calibration of racecourses, to measure and certify the route.

The course would consist of five 5.2 mile loops on roads east of the campus. The start time was 3:00 p.m. to align with Mexico City’s Olympic Marathon race time. By race day afternoon, 113 runners registered. They included a number of individuals who would soon become icons in the burgeoning American sport of long distance running that would eventually ignite a worldwide boom: Amby Burfoot, Ron Daws, Hal Higdon, Kenny Moore, Billy Mills, Gary Muhrcke, Tom Osler, Frank Shorter, and George Young. When the event was over, only 63 runners had succeeded in crossing the finish line. The rest had dropped out for a variety of reasons, including dehydration. Olympic steeplechaser George Young had won. Young was immediately followed by Kenny Moore, and Minnesotan Ron Daws. These three men

went on to represent the U.S. in the Olympic Marathon in Mexico City.

Vigil’s experience with the 1968 Olympic Marathon Trials had a deep and lasting impact. “I had never been to a coaching clinic or attended a coaching school. I already had a good education with a Masters degree, but being around guys like David Costill got me all fired up. I decided to pursue my Ph.D. in Exercise Physiology from the University of New Mexico, which I got in 1971. The rest is history. The Trials in 1968 motivated me to dedicate my life to coaching, teaching, and service to sharing information with other coaches.

That’s what I am still doing today. I give clinics all over the world.” The 1968 Trials and Vigil’s leadership also transformed Adams State into a long distance running powerhouse that won 19 cross country and track and field national championships.

More recently, Vigil was the driving force behind the organization of a weekend of events to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the trials as an epic historic event in the world of American distance running. Vigil invited all the 1968 trials participants to return to Alamosa’s Adams State University for a reunion, which included speech presentations by Olympic marathon medalist and American record holder Deena Kastor and husband Andrew, an 8 kilometer “Race With the Legends” using the original trials route, and a banquet. To honor Coach Vigil for bringing the trials to their city in 1968 the Alamosa City Council proclaimed July 28 to be “Joe I. Vigil Day.”

Some of the trials veterans were asked to share their recollections of the 1968 event. This is what they had to say:

Amby Burfoot grew up in

Groton, Connecticut and won the Boston Marathon in 1968.

Burfoot served as Executive Editor of Runner’s World magazine for many years.

“In 1968 I was 21 years old and a senior at Wesleyan University.

A month after winning the Boston Marathon I won the New England Championship three mile and 3000 meter steeplechase on the track, but pulled a butt muscle. I had no business running the race because it was not my event.

I just wanted an adventure that I might not have again. A lot of us were obsessed about the upcoming marathon trials in Alamosa, so Photography By ADAMS STATE UNIVERSITY

instead of resting for a few days or weeks and getting over the injury, I trained through it and it never got better. I hate to say my running career peaked at age 21, but that’s pretty much the case.

I was in the group of roughly 20 of the best marathoners in the country at the time that received a modest amount of funding from the U.S. Olympic Committee to live in Joe Vigil’s dorms at Adams State in Alamosa for a month. They knew that we were going to have to try and get adapted to altitude a little bit. Significantly, among us were not the guys that later went one-two in the race, George Young and Kenny Moore, because they had already found independent altitude training for themselves. That might have been a very smart thing for them because the rest of us were in the boiling pot of Alamosa where we were all staring blankly at each other for 30 days before the trials.

“Honestly, I was pretty miserable the whole time because I was injured. Alamosa was the antithesis of everything I had grown up with in running, which was cross country, hills, state parks, forested trails to run on whenever possible, and the Long Island Sound lapping at the edge of my training routes. There I was in Alamosa where there was nothing but godawful roads that went on for miles and miles and miles in one direction straight as an arrow with no elevation change at all. Now I was running through the desert chafing against cactus, blowing tumbleweeds, and jackrabbits. This didn’t help my emotional state in any way.

“Being injured and not getting better, I knew I was going nowhere fast. Here I was surrounded by all these guys who were doing epic workouts that were getting reported back to us by word of mouth in the small circle of runners there. We all knew that Ron Daws was doing crazy great workouts with Ed Winrow.

Steve Matthews was off on his own somewhere doing faster, longer workouts than anyone else.

It was all just a big psych out for me.

“Fast forward to race day. I was able to start and be in the group that went slow. I figured that was my only and best chance. I ran three laps of the race. My leg hurt, my butt muscle was tight, constricted and not functioning like it should. So I dropped out after three laps, at about 15 or 16 miles, and sat on the sidelines to watch the winners come in an hour later. That’s my trials story.

“The trials were important in terms of both their effect on me and the sport of road running and marathoning in America. I had Olympic ambitions, as we all did. Having the opportunity to go to something called an Olympic Trials, although not the Olympic Games, increased my ambition, motivation, and desire to run better. I don’t think there’s been another time in American distance running history when 20 of the top marathoners in the country lived in dormitory rooms across from each other for a month, trained their butts off, and went out drinking beer in the evenings. It was a very tight, competitive, fantastic group of athletes there. Running poorly and dropping out made me want to train well, get back in shape, and run fast again. So it was very motivating to me in that regard.

“Secondly, was the trials effect on American distance running. As far as I know, it was really the first marathon in the U.S. where actual talented athletes entered. By that, I mean George Young and Kenny Moore. George was equal to any distance runner in the U.S. for decades and here he was in the marathon.

That just never used to happen. For example, the 5000 meter runners, like Bob Schul and others, didn’t run marathons. They only ran track events. [Track runner] Kenny Moore was a tremendously gifted athlete and fast runner.

He was at the trials. Bill Clark and some of the other guys there were young and fast as well. So it was the first time you got real talent there.

Of course, Frank [Shorter] wasn’t a challenger yet. Nevertheless, some strange force of the universe pulled Frank into that circle of marathoners. Even though he got himself going in cross country and track for a few years he was clearly drawn to the marathon. Undoubtedly, the marathon was where he made his big mark on U.S. and world running. So the trials were a very important event on a lot of different levels.

“Also, when one considers the impact that Coach Joe Vigil has had on running in America and one further considers that he spent most of his life in Alamosa, Colorado and not in Boston, New York, Portland, Oregon, Los Angeles, or wherever, it’s absolutely astonishing. It’s almost impossible to believe that one man in a godforsaken out of the way place like Alamosa had the influence he had and continues to have on American running.

But he did…and it began a few years before 1968 when he and Buddy Edelen began cranking things up for the trials and it has continued for more than 50 years. I believe Joe is one of the unsung heroes of American distance running without having a name like Frank Shorter, Bill Rodgers, Meb Keflezighi, or others on anybody’s list. He has just been there forever helping people, such as Pat Porter and Deena Kastor, achieve tremendous things. There’s no question he’s relied on his scientific study and knowledge, but his magic is the force of his personality, which is unbelievably strong. It’s tough, but it’s not the cliché of the military toughness. It’s toughness based on wanting individuals to accept the philosophy of running and life that is necessary to get to the highest levels. I really admire that.”

Gary Muhrcke was

the first winner of the New York Marathon in 1970. In 1976 he started selling running shoes out of a van, which eventually became the Super Runners Shop, a chain of successful specialty running stores in the New York City area.

“I had run cross country at a high school in Brooklyn, where I was a 5:10 miler.

In 1968, I was 28 years old, working as a New York City firefighter, and living in Freeport on Long Island. My wife Jane and I had two

BOULDER’S FRANK SHORTER AT THE STARTING LINE OF THE RACE WITH THE LEGENDS 8K.

daughters and a son born in the span of just two years that were ages 3, 4 and 5. We were a young family just trying to survive. We were a one VW Beetle car family and I was actually commuting to and from work by running about 10 miles from Freeport to my job. Running was a reasonably serious thing, but it wasn’t the most important thing in my life.

“Aldo Scandurra [co-founder of the New York Road Runners Club] was the key influence in my running the 1968 Trials. I believe he was head of the AAU track and field committee at the time. Aldo was an older runner, but I used to train with him where he lived in Port Washington because of the hills there.

He encouraged good local runners to go out and run the trials in Colorado.

“I arrived about a month prior to the event. To be honest, I got really homesick.

It wasn’t satisfying for me in any way, shape, or form. I called Jane and told her, ‘All these guys do out here is eat, run, and sleep.’ So I was coming home unless she wanted to come out to Colorado. We had no money at the time, so she went to the bank and took out a $500 home improvement loan to finance the trip. Then packed up the car with the three young kids and took three days to drive out.

“Two weeks before the trials, Amby, Ed Winrow, Bob Deines, and my family drove up to run the Pikes Peak Marathon. They were in one car and my family and I were in ours.

“All I wanted to do at the trials was run a decent performance. My race strategy was to stay with McDonagh for a while, see how I felt, and then move up if I still had it. He was an ultrarunner and had previously represented the U.S. in the Pan Am Games Marathon.

If you want to make sure you’re going to finish you run with someone with that kind of experience. Norbert [Sanders] went out and ran pretty hard because he thought he could make the team. I ran with Jim McDonough for three laps and then I moved up a little bit. We both caught Norbert at some point because he was struggling. I finished in 16th place with about a 2:40 time. So that’s how it went down.

“Jane had taken 8mm home movies of the finish. When Norbert crossed the finish line you see him look at his watch and then a look of disgust on his face. We laughed every time we watched that film and saw Norbert’s face. After the trials we sold our car and flew coloradorunnermag.com 15

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THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY WEEKEND IN ALAMOSA INCLUDED A RACE WITH THE LEGENDS 8K.

back home. It was all definitely an experience.”

Frank Shorter remains one of America’s

greatest runners of all time. He is best known for winning a gold medal at the 1972 Munich Olympics and a silver medal at the 1976 Montreal Olympics. He is largely credited with igniting the running boom in the U.S. during the 1970s and for making Boulder a training mecca for world class athletes from all endurance sports. He has written several books, including his most recent, “My Marathon: Reflections on a Gold Medal Life.”

“At the time I was 20 years old, going into my senior year at Yale, and wouldn’t turn 21 until the following October. I was a track racer who also ran cross country in college.

At that point in time I had been gradually increasing my distance, but had never run more than 10 or 12 miles in training. I was just coaching myself and was experimenting with altitude training. My younger brother and I were in Taos that summer and we saw that the Olympic Marathon Trials were going to be in Alamosa. So I said to my brother, ‘Let’s go up and watch. It’s only 110 miles from Taos to Alamosa.’ Then we put our sleeping bags in the shell on the back of our Dodge pickup truck and drive up to Alamosa about two days before the race. It was a time when not many people in Taos or Alamosa knew what was going on and it’s importance.

“After we arrived I go to where the sign up was and I met Buddy Edelen. I knew who he was because he had broken the world marathon record in 1963 with a 2:14:28. The sign up was right across the street from the race start and the university dorms. During my sophomore year we had a practice cross country race against Wesleyan at Yale. Jeff Galloway, Amby Burfoot, and Bill Rodgers were rooming together at Wesleyan. So I knew all these guys.

Amby was sort of my idol because he had been cross country champion for several years. Then he wins the Boston Marathon in the spring of 1968. I knew Amby was in Alamosa so I walked over to the college dormitory and found him. I learned that there’s no qualifying time for the Trials…you don’t have to prove anything. All you had to do was sign up and run.

“This would be my first marathon at16 coloradorunnermag.com

tempt. Guess what I didn’t have? I had training shoes from college but no racing shoes. So I say to Amby, ‘I want to jump into the race, can you loan me a pair of shoes?’ He says, ‘Yeah, sure.’

The problem was I wore a 10 1/2 shoe at the time and he wore a 9 1/2. So Amby gives me a pair of his 9 1/2 Tiger racing shoes, which everyone wore at the time. I jumped in the race with those shoes that were a size too small.

We’re five miles into the race and Bill Clark says to me, ‘Who are you?’ I responded, ‘I’m a friend of Amby’s.’ We kept running and the pack spreads out over the race course. Soon, I’m totally blistered. Amby was not having a good race himself. At the 15 mile point, Amby and I looked at each other and say, ‘We’re done.’ We both stoped there, droped out, and watched the finish of the race.

“What stuck with me about the trials was that these other runners were just people.

Buddy Edelen did so much for the marathon in this country and he’s the least recognized contributor. He was just a little too much before his time. You had marathoners before him, but he was the first to hold the world’s best time in the event. Later Kenny Moore, myself, and others broke the record. But Buddy is the least recognized and appreciated of that early group.

Those of us in the sport knew about him, but we were a small group that could pretty much be counted on one hand at the time.”

Jan Frisby

lives in Grand Junction and is in his 60th year of running. At age 35 he finally ran a “respectable” marathon with a time of 2:33.

As a Masters runner he has won 29 USATF age group national championships at distances ranging from 800 meters to the half marathon.

“I started running distance as a freshman miler at a small high school in Southern Illinois. My family moved to Colorado my sophomore year of high school and I won the Colorado Class AA state championship in the

half mile in 1962, coincidentally on the Adams State track. At the time of the trials, I was 24 years old and teaching high school mathematics in my hometown of Cortez, Colorado.

“I remember a number of things about the trials experience. They weighed us before and after the race, and performed caliper tests for body fat. I was in line right after Amby Burfoot, who was that year’s Boston Marathon winner, so I was somewhat in awe. I remember Dr. David Costill, who was doing all the skin caliper tests, asking me if I had ever run a good marathon. This would be my fourth attempt at the marathon, having previously DNFed at two marathons and only completing the Denver Marathon, which I finished in about three hours after about 12 laps in Washington Park.

So I answered, ‘No.’ Costill then suggested that my 10 percent body fat might be the reason.

That was a pretty high body fat in those days.

Most of the guys were about four percent.

“It was quite hot the day of the race, we had a late start, and the sun was high. Add in the altitude and the slow finishing times were inevitable. I dropped out after the third of the five laps of 5.2 miles each. But I did get a great ringside seat to the finish and see George Young win. I was somewhat disappointed that my friend and occasional training partner, Steve Matthews, finished in fifth place and failed to qualify for the Olympic team. Although never a great marathoner and can’t claim to be in the class of the great runners who graced the road in the 1968 Olympic Trials Marathon, I’ve had a joyful time along the way and done the best I could with gifts God has given me. I look back in gratitude that I was able to be involved in this inaugural event.”

George Young is a four-time U.S. Olym-

pian best known for bringing the steeplechase event into American prominence. In 1968 Young won the first U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials and a bronze medal in the 3000 meter steeplechase at the Mexico City Olympics.

“Before the 1968 Olympic Trials I had been teaching high school in Casa Grande, Arizona. As soon as the school year ended my family and I temporarily moved to Flagstaff, Arizona so Billy Mills and I could train at 7,200 feet altitude for the upcoming Olympic

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Track and Field Trials.

“I had just turned 31 years old and had never run a marathon before. I had met Billy Mills at the 1964 Olympics. Billy was real mild mannered, funny, and fun loving and we had a good time together. Billy said to me, ‘Do you mind if I do the same workouts as you?’ I had been training by myself. Not many people I knew wanted to or could train the way I did.

Once a week we would go out and do a 17 mile out and back training run up the mountains outside Flagstaff. Billy said to me, ‘Your training is harder than the training I did before I won the gold medal in the 10000 meters at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.’ Then I told him, ‘We have plenty of time before the track and field trials. So why don’t we go and run the Olympic Marathon Trials? It’s just a short drive from Flagstaff to Alamosa.’

“By that time I had already been on two Olympic teams. I could do tremendous workouts one day, but the next day I might not be able to do much. I just wasn’t organized with my training. So I took on a coach, a math teacher in Silver City, New Mexico, where I had grown up. That made a big difference for me. He kept it under control. When I got up in the morning I didn’t have to worry about what kind of workouts I was going to do. I just took it one day at a time. I had some pretty good races after that. It taught me the value of a coach having confidence in his runners.

“Billy and I followed the same program from my coach. We had a well-organized, progressive workout schedule. Every morning was a 7 1/2 mile run except for the weekends when we would do 15 to 20 miles one day. The afternoon workout would be interval training every other day with a long fartlek workout in the days in between. When I got to Flagstaff, I was still doing the same thing. Except it was at altitude and my morning run was 8 to 9 miles.

To prepare for the marathon trials I ran about 100 miles a week. I found I could train week after week if I kept it around 100 miles because it didn’t wear me down. I only felt stronger and stronger. So I kept up the same mileage but concentrated on speed by running faster and faster. I believe the real key [to racing well] is speed work. It’s pretty simple. To run fast you have to put the speed training together with the long distance running. I don’t believe in LSD [Long Slow Distance] training. You could run 150 miles a week slow, but you’re not going to beat anyone in a race. If I were to do it all over again I would still train the same way.

“Billy and I drove out to Alamosa and showed up the day before the trials. I didn’t know any of the other guys there. I think they were pretty surprised when Billy and I showed up, but don’t believe they were worried about us. One of them commented, ‘Hey, what are you sprinters doing here?’ Billy just laughed.

“I told Billy before the race, ‘I don’t know what I’m doing here, so I’m just going to run right along with you.’ We’d already been running side-by-side for a month or longer. He said, ‘Okay.’ So we just ran along and talked.

The first time we come to an aid station, Billy said to me, ‘Make sure you take these liquids.’ I told him, ‘I’m not thirsty.’ So he responds, ‘No, you gotta do this.’ I didn’t know what it was,

wasn’t planning on slowing down or stopping, so I just tried to drink it and I stuck it in my eye. I thought Billy was going to die laughing at me, but he says to me, ‘That’s alright, they’ll give you a sponge to wipe your face off.’ It was all a learning experiment for me.

“About the third lap we turn a corner and we’re about 100 to 200 hundred yards behind each other. Billy says, ‘Don’t worry about it, my back is beginning to really hurt.’ Billy had a bad back. Whenever we drove anywhere he had a specially made cushion to use for his back when sitting for long times. Soon Billy told me, ‘My back is killing me, I can’t go any further. You can go out and take off after those guys [in front of us] if you want to.’ I picked it up a little bit and passed some of them coming into town, including Kenny Moore. Then I realized I was in first place and asked myself, ‘Now what are you going to do?’ But then I ended up winning it. I wasn’t overly concerned about winning and didn’t expect to win it. I was just thinking, ‘I wonder what it’s like to run a 26 miler?’ Although I had run some pretty good 20 milers, I had never raced that far.

“But I never got into a race since I was a little kid that I didn’t have the intention to win it. Thanks to Billy for keeping me under control because otherwise I would have been racing. That’s what happened to me in the Olympic Marathon. I got carried away, got to racing, and messed myself up. I didn’t change my training at all for Mexico City. I just kept on doing the same thing. The reason why I had won the trials was not because I had put in more mileage than other people in the race. It was because it was quality mileage.

“In Mexico City, I was able to recover pretty fast from winning the bronze medal in the steeplechase. I was physically ready for the marathon being held just four days later and was mentally excited about doing it. I didn’t have Billy around to tell me to get those fluids in me, so I didn’t drink nearly enough. At about 4,000 meters to go, I decided to pick it up and catch up to the leaders. Then I got cramps from my buttocks to my heels in both legs. I was near an aid station and got down all the fluids I could. I was just walking stiff-legged the last 400 meters and it was downhill into the stadium. I was afraid I was going to fall down on my face before I made it all the way around the track for the final lap to the finish line. I think I finished in about the same time as I did in the trials [Young placed 16th overall in 2:31:15]. I was really sore for a few days after that.”

John Peterson grew up in

Lockport, Illinois and was a successful collegiate runner. He spent most of his professional career in administration at Joliet Junior College in Illinois.

Now 74-yearsold, John lives in Crest Hill, Illinois and still regularly competes in sprint duathlons.

“In 1966 I read an article in Sports

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Illustrated magazine by Buddy Edelen about him going to Alamosa to train at altitude. I had already won and set a record in the Small College Nationals at Northern Illinois University.

So I graduated from college and decided to go out and train in Alamosa for the 5000 meter event and start graduate school at Adams State.

I pulled into town and looked up Buddy and Joe Vigil. Buddy and I would go trout fishing and out to drink beer together. Joe had already been coaching and teaching there for several years and he became my graduate student advisor. I helped him coach track and cross country as a 23-year-old graduate student. The townspeople in Alamosa were also fantastic and would invite the runners to barbeques and just do nice things for us all the time.

“I had twisted my ankle hopping over a sagebrush during a run in the desert and as a result, missed the 5,000 meter Olympic Trials. So I said to myself, ‘Why not sign up for the upcoming marathon trials and run it just for fun?’ I knew a few of the guys that came in for race. When Kenny Moore was a senior and I was a junior in college we ran against each other in the 5,000 meter event. I remember him and Oregon runners wearing these homemade shoes [read: early Nike prototype running shoes] at the time.

“My mindset for the Marathon Trials was, ‘I’m going to go out with the leaders and see how long I can last.’ Kenny Moore and these guys pass me up in the first lap. I tried to stay with them. That was a mistake because I had gone out too fast. Going on the third lap, probably at about the 12 mile mark, I thought, ‘I’ve got a couple more laps to go, this isn’t going to happen.’ I was behind them and hung on with them for a while. I realized I wasn’t going to keep up and was probably ready to drop out. I really just wanted to say that I finished the race. I eventually finished in 3:07 for 43rd place. Heck, I figured I beat Billy Mills, Frank Shorter, and a bunch of other guys that had started and dropped out.

“I left Alamosa not much later in 1968 after getting a joint Masters degree in Physical Education and Secondary Education.”

Bruce Kirschner has been a runner for over 45 years.

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A MENTAL HEALTH GUIDE FOR ATHLETES

Messages from coaches and others about what to eat, the optimal training body shape, and the ways in which diet and training impact performance can be overwhelming or preoccupying.

Approximately 8% of female athletes and 3% of male athletes experience disordered eating at some point during their competitive careers.

Here are signs and symptoms of disordered eating â&#x20AC;&#x201C; endorsing more of these signs as true for you might indicate that it would be a good time to seek support from a mental health professional. o Weight fluctuations, loss of weight not in support of training goals o Periods of overeating or fasting not in support of training goals o Ritualistic eating (cutting food into small pieces, hiding food, eating alone) o Fixation with food o Hypervigilance about calories/nutritional content that is not in support of training goals o Avoidance of social functions, particularly those that involve food or drink o Anxiety, depression, or isolation

Stress and Anxiety

It is clear that emotional and physical health impact athletic performance.

Athletes are under a great deal of pressure to perform well in a variety of circumstances, to please sponsors and coaches, and to perform to their potential. Athletes experience many demands on not only their physical health, but their mental health and emotional resiliency. Factors like genetics, life transitions, and social support all impact mental health.

Many athletes and organizations have recently begun to focus on athlete mental health both as a critical aspect of personal development, and as a contributing factor to optimal athletic performance. For example, Olympian Michael Phelps has been quite open in discussing his struggles with depression and the ways in which depression impacted his performance as a world-class athlete. In the NFL, several prominent athletes have spoken openly about mental health struggles, and work 18 coloradorunnermag.com

has begun to make team owners more aware of the emotional needs of players.

Unfortunately, athletes are at especially high risk for experiencing psychological difficulties. As many as 15% of athletes (2-3% higher than the general population) will experience mental health concerns severe enough to seek professional help. Eating disorders are especially problematic among athletes, impacting many professional athletes. Rates are probably higher than those reported, as many athletes may be hesitant to seek help, even when they need it.

While it is clear that athletes may have special challenges that impact emotional wellness, all athletes are human, and experience struggles and challenges that can become disruptive to peak performance and daily life.

The following are resources designed to provide direction, support, and connection for athletes struggling with emotional well-being.

Body Image and Eating

Athletes are especially at risk of developing problematic relationships with food and weight. For most athletes, weight, training, and fuel are critical to peak performance.

Some anxiety is a normal part of being an athlete, and a human being. The desire to perform well, and represent oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team, coach, and sponsors will undoubtedly create some feelings of stress or anxiety. Anxiety becomes a problem when the symptoms linger, becoming problematic for functioning in everyday life. As many as one in ten adults struggle with anxiety at some point. This can be transient or persistent, and a combination of medication and behavioral skills can help.

These are signs and symptoms of difficult anxiety: o Restlessness, feeling on edge, unable to relax o Difficulty concentrating o Irritability o Avoidance of situations that prompt anxiety o Difficulty controlling worries, racing thoughts, feeling out of control o Difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep o Fatigue, muscle pain, and unexplained illnesses

Depression

Everyone experiences times when they feel sad, lonely, angry, or hopeless. These emotions can be linked to life events, or can occur without warning. When such feelings make it difficult to function in everyday life, depression may be the cause. Depression not only impacts mood, but thoughts, behaviors, and physical health, as well. For athletes,

depression can be triggered by unavoidable aspects of the sport, including loneliness during training, travel or relocation away from social support networks, and training setbacks or poor performances. As many as one in five adults experience depression in their lifetime, and help is available. Medication can help, but research supports the use of counseling.

These are signs and symptoms of depression: o Feeling helpless or hopeless (nothing is good; there is nothing I can do to improve my situation) o Loss of interest in activities that used to be enjoyable o Feeling “flat” or disoriented o Feeling less joy, happiness than usual o Appetite or weight changes o Changes in sleep patterns (more or less) o Anger or irritability o Lack of energy o Difficulty concentrating, making decisions, or remembering ordinary things o Fatigue, muscle pain o Self-loathing (feeling worthless, persistent negative self talk, or self punishment) o Self harming (cutting, reckless behavior, drinking or doing drugs) o Thoughts of suicide, or wanting to simply not be around anymore

Skills and Strategies

There are many skills and strategies that can help you find balance emotionally. One of the easiest ways to find good strategies is to search the internet for breathing or relaxation strategies and try anything that sounds appealing. Many apps are also available to guide users in breathing and relaxation techniques. There is some trial and error in finding skills and strategies that will help you find emotional balance and mental well-being. Try several strategies and have more than one that feels comfortable.

Breathing Strategies

One way to manage troubling emotions is to slow the automatic thinking that often accompanies unwanted feelings. Breathing strategies can help slow thinking, alleviate anxiety, and refresh the mind. For each strategy, be in a comfortable position, seated, standing, or lying down. Close the eyes and focus on the technique for 10-20 breaths.

1. 10 second breathing – Take a slow, deep breath in through the nose for a count of 4.

Breathe out through the mouth for a count of 6.

2. Belly breathing – Place one hand on the center chest and one hand on the diaphragm/ belly. Breathe in until both hands can feel a shift from the breath. Breathe out from the belly first, then the chest. Breathe slowly and deliberately.

3. Pause breathing – Take a slow, deep breath in for a count of 5. Breathe out for a count of 5.

Pause for a count of 2 before the need to inhale comes again.

Scheduled Worry

One of the ways worry and anxiety can feel overpowering is that they often come

on without warning. Scheduling time to worry is one way to manage the worry time. Select a specific time each day for worry. Schedule this in the day and set a timer for 10-15 minutes.

During that time, worry freely about anything and everything that comes to mind. Write notes, make lists, draw or doodle, and engage with the worry. Once time is up, set aside the worries by folding the list, or visualizing putting the worries in a box or room. Be intentional about setting the worry aside and focusing on the next task fully.

Visualization

Athletes often use visualization to prepare for important tasks or competitions.

Visualization can be used for emotional wellbeing, too. Typically, emotional visualization involves thinking about soothing or pleasing contexts and allowing oneself to exist in that soothing space metaphorically. Find a quiet time for the visualization, perhaps while siting or lying down. Set a timer for the desired time if needed. Take a few deep breaths and focus the mind on the visualization. Imagine yourself in the relaxing or soothing scene you have selected. Notice what you see, hear, smell, feel and possibly taste. Pay special attention to the textures, colors, and patterns that you can see.

You may imagine different parts of the scene, such as the beach and the water on an island.

You may imagine the scene over time, like watching a sunset. Use pictures, videos, artifacts (like a rock, a jar of sand, a soft pillow) or other visual/kinesthetic aids to help you focus on the scene. End the visualization by slowly walking away from the scene, or shifting the focus from the scene. End with a few deep breaths.

Getting Help

Finding a mental health professional is easy, confidential, and can be done online in most cases. The easiest way to find a counselor or therapist is to search one of the many online databases. Large, national databases enable searching for counselors via local area, insurances accepted, and specialty. Once a therapist has been identified, the next step is to contact the therapist via phone or email. Ask questions about the therapist’s experience, specialty, and payment options. It is expected that potential clients will ask questions, and that the first contact will feel a little like speed dating, or a comfortable interview. Look for an indication of connection, or personality compatibility. If you don’t feel connected to, or comfortable with a therapist, ask for a referral.

There are several different kinds of helpers. Among the most common are: 1. Licensed professional counselors (LPCs, LMHCs) – the most common type of therapist, and one who generally works with a variety of problems.

2. Marital and Family Therapists – counselors who specialize in helping individuals and supporting them in managing their lives and relationships better 3. Social Workers – found in many hospitals and institutional settings, focused on improving social functioning within the larger social sphere

4. Psychiatrists – medical doctors who can write prescriptions and provide medications

Common Worries

Confidentiality – Counseling is confidential, meaning that anything you share with a licensed therapist cannot be shared with anyone else without your consent. There are some exceptions to this confidentiality, including if the therapist believes that you might kill yourself or someone else, or do serious bodily harm that might result in the death of you or someone else. The therapist will likely inform the appropriate authorities if you tell them about the abuse of minor children, incompetent adults, or others who are unable to care for themselves.

Finally, counseling records may be considered health care records in some states, and may be open to subpoena. Discuss your concerns about confidentiality with the therapist early in the treatment, and make sure you understand your rights.

Training while seeking help – You probably won’t have to stop training while seeking help for mental health concerns. The therapist might encourage you to modify your training in some ways, or help you develop strategies to train at your best during difficult times. Your therapist might encourage you to speak with your coach, or trusted others, about your mental health.

Speak with your therapist about your concerns related to training and work with them to find a way keep training on track as you work to find your peak performance.

Supporting a Friend

Many athletes have an opportunity to support teammates, colleagues, and friends, who may be struggling with emotional health.

Here are some easy ways to support a friend or teammate who might be struggling: 1. Assure your friend/teammate that you believe them, that their struggles are real. Make sure your friend/teammate knows that you value mental health and value their emotional wellness.

2. Support your friend/teammate in engaging in self-care strategies and developing new coping strategies. You might suggest some of the skills and strategies in this guide, or support your friend/teammate in doing the things that make them feel comfortable, safe, and soothed.

3. Encourage your friend/teammate to avoid drugs and alcohol. Drugs and alcohol do not have a positive impact on mental health, and avoiding them during times of struggle is best.

4. Encourage your friend/teammate to seek help from a professional, particularly if you notice any of the signs listed in the signs and symptoms section of this guide.

5. Be patient. It can take time to accept help, and to develop a positive sense of emotional well-being. Be patient with your friend/teammate through setbacks and successes. Reinforce your willingness to help and to stand with them during times of difficulty.

by Rachel Tambling, PhD, LMFT for RRCA

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Elites Droddy and Montoya Win West End 3K

Noah Droddy and Maggie Montoya ran to victory in at the Pasta Jay’s West End 3K in Boulder. Both are members of Boulder’s Roots Running Project and each won in Boulder for the first time in their careers.

Montoya, a former standout runner at Baylor, moved to Boulder from her native Arkansas two weeks before the race and was adjusting to the altitude, but that didn’t stop her from running like a champion. She took an early lead amid a strong field of women and never looked back, going wire-to-wire for the win in 9:35, followed by Boulder Track Club runners Janelle Lincks 9:56 and Bria Wetsch in 10:21.

“I was kind of worried about the altitude in this race and, yes, I did go out too fast,” said Montoya, who recently finished 11th in the 5,000-meter run at the USATF Track and Field Championships. “It was fun to race through downtown Boulder with all of the people out on the streets.”

Droddy also won for the first time in Boulder, taking the overall title in 8:36, followed by Tyler McCandles with the Boulder Harriers in 8:42, with Alec Baldwin of the Boulder Track Club in 8:45. Droddy used the race as a tuneup for his upcoming races at the Beach to Beacon 10K in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, and the Falmouth Road Race in Falmouth, Massachusetts.

“It was a fun race and a tough race and I’m happy to come away with the win,” Droddy said. “Everyone was hanging really

tough on the first two laps and I was just trying to survive until the last turnaround after two laps. I realized I wasn’t the fastest guy left for the sprint, so I just tried to go from a long way out to see if I could pull away. I kind of had to sell my soul to get to the finish line first. It was a good idea at the time.”

There were other races beside the Elite 3K, including an Open 3K and Kids 1K. Male and female winners in the Open race were Dillon Gracey of Lafayette in 10:19 and Lin Lascelles of Longmont in 12:11, while in the kids race, Christopher Smit of Boulder won in 3:33 and Sarah Perkins of Boulder won the girls race in 3:37.

This year’s West End 3K had a revamp after last year’s cancellation of the race.

There was a West End Restaurants Waiters Race which saw Pasta Jay’s Restaurant win.

The event had live music from David Gans and Firefall, which the runners ran past on each 1K lap. Some participants enjoyed the Oskar Blues Brewery beer garden set up on the course.

There were 241 registrants for this year’s race with 210 competing on the night, but many more spectators lined the course to enjoy the event, dancing and cheering on the runners.

“This was a great start for what I hope will relaunch the West End 3K back to where it was with numbers and excitement 10 to 15 years ago,” said Race Director Lee Troop. “The atmosphere was electric with great crowds, great races.”

-Lee Troop

Krar and Arnold Win Leadville 100 Miler

More than 600 runners from all 50 states and 41 countries competed in the iconic ‘Race Across the Sky’ held in Leadville on August 18 and 19. This world-renown 100mile foot race travels through the challenging Colorado Rockies with elevations ranging from 9,200 to 12,600 feet, with a total elevation climb of more than 14,000 feet.

Rob Krar won the race for the second time, with his prior win in 2014, finishing in 15:51:57, beating his previous time of 16:09:32.

Krar is only the second person in the history of the race to finish under 16 hours. Krar also raced the Leadville Trail 100 Mountain Bike race the previous weekend and finished 14th overall. Ryan Kaiser finished second in 17:37:23 and Seth Kelly finished third in 18:15:29.

“Going back to Leadville four years after I first ran it was definitely a magical experience,” Krar said. “Back in 2014 when I ran it, at the time it was my most difficult 100 mile race ever, so I had been wanting to come back and have a more amicable experience.”

Krar, who says he had a “tough couple years” with injuries and personal issues, is hoping that this win will have a snowball effect and give him the momentum he needs to get his running back on track.

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In the women’s division, Katie Arnold, took the top honor in her first 100 mile trail race and won in 19:53:40, good for 11th overall. Addie Bracy finished second in 21:17:12 and Gina Slaby finished third in 23:13:03.

The Leadville Trail 100 also marked the fifth and final challenge for those who competed for the titles of Leadman and Leadwoman. To earn the title of Leadman or Leadwoman, each athlete must also complete the Leadville Trail Marathon, Leadville Silver Rush 50-Mile Mountain Bike or Silver Rush 50-Mile Trail Run, Leadville Trail 100 MTB and the Leadville Trail 10K Run. This year, Joel Anderson finished seventh overall in the Leadville Trail 100 Run in 19:21:55 and claimed the overall Leadman title. Suzie Talley won the Leadwoman title finishing the Leadville Trail 100 Run in 24:49:55.

This year, 99 runners started the series and only 44 finished: 38 men and 6 women.

Elite athlete Dave Mackey completed the final race of the grueling Leadville Race Series to achieve the coveted Leadman title. More impressive is the fact that Mackey, 48, completed the series only 20 months after having his leg amputated.

Previously in 2014, Mackey completed the Leadville series, placing second overall.

Tragically, 10 months later he experienced a horrific accident while trail running. After multiple surgeries and an eventual amputation in November, 2016, he was determined to attempt Leadman once again, this time, with his new prosthetic leg.

“It’s crazy to run 100 miles with a prosthetic leg,” said Mackey after finishing the race. “There’s so much more potential for problems beyond the regular ultrarunning problems: cramping, blown quads and sour stomach. Yet somehow, I was able to mitigate skin damage in my socket.”

“It’s truly inspiring and amazing to watch participants at the Leadville Trail 100 Run cross the finish line each year and see the spirit of racing in Leadville is forever with them,” said Ken Chlouber, founder of the Leadville Race Series. “Congratulations to our overall winners Rob and Katie and let’s celebrate all the runners who gave it their all on the race course. All of our participants are champions in our eyes and inspire us to push beyond what we think is possible in our own healthy way of life journeys.”

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Hot Chocolate Race Returns for a 5th Year

More than 7,000 runners and walkers took to the streets of downtown Denver for the fifth annual Hot Chocolate 15K/5K with overcast skies and temperatures in the mid 30s.

Starting and finishing at Civic Center Park and snaking through lower downtown, participants were taken on a tour that included views of

Coors Field, Benedict Fountain and Fuller Park. In the 15K, Boulder’s Ugis Jocis ran away from the field to cross the finish line first in a brisk 49:51 (5:21 pace). Second place went to Cale Allen of Denver in 51:28. Top master’s honors went to Kenneth Wegener of Louisville, who ran the 15K in 61:22.

For the women, Emily Van Meter of Colorado Springs took top honors in 58:46.

Arvada’s Krystalanne Curwood captured the silver medal, crossing the finish line in 59:23.

Brenna Ellington of Littleton was the top master’s athlete in 65:40. The 15K had 2,838 finishers.

The accompanying 5K was led out by members of the Girls on the Run running club.

Girls on the Run is a physical activity-based positive youth development program for young girls. The Rocky Mountain chapter has nearly 5,500 girls enrolled in the program. This year, Allstate, the title sponsor of the Hot Chocolate race, donated $5,000 to the local program.

Keary Buttrill of Albuquerque was the first finisher in the 5K, crossing the line in 18:22. He was followed by Stanley Roffe of Broomfied (19:22) and Nolan Kamm of Parker (19:39). Marcus Brooks of Highlands Ranch was the top master’s running, crossing the line in 20:18.

In the female race, Larkspur’s Isabella Prosceno took top honors, crossing the finish line in second place overall in 18:55. Rochelle Persson of Colorado Springs was the second female finisher and top master’s runner in 20:11. The 5K had 4,560 finishers. See more results on page 27.

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FOUR COLORADANS FINISHED IN THE TOP 35 AT THE DIPSEA TRAIL RACE. PICTURED LEFT TO RIGHT ARE WES THURMAN OF COLORADO SPRINGS, CHUCK SMEAD OF MOSCA, HEATH HIBBARD OF MONTROSE AND MARK TATUM OF COLORADO SPRINGS.

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eath Hibbard claimed a first place overall finish in Northern California’s legendary Double Dipsea Race on June 16 after dominating the original Dipsea Race with several fellow Coloradans less than a week before.

First run in 1905, the original Dipsea is the oldest trail race in America and the second oldest footrace in the U.S. after the Boston Marathon. Originating as a bet between two men in a bar in 1904, it is run every year on the second Sunday in June. The scenic 7.4 mile course in Marin County, north of San Francisco, goes from Mill Valley to Stinson Beach and is considered to be one of the most beautiful courses in the world. The stairs, creek crossings, rocks, overhanging tree limbs, and steep trails make it a grueling and treacherous race. Racers gain about 2,000 feet in less than two miles during the race.

And its unique handicapping system based on age and gender has made winners of men and women of all ages.

Because of its beauty and challenge, it is a very popular event, and because of safety and environmental concerns the number of runners is limited to about 1,500. While racers enter from all over the world, the Dipsea is primarily a Northern California event and the entry process is allegedly tilted a bit to favor local contestants.

According to Hibbard, a 65-year-old from Ridgeway, “It’s the hardest race to get into, especially the first time.”

The "Double Dipsea" event, which is also handicapped, was founded in 1970 by legendary Bay Area runner Walt Stack. The 13.7 mile race goes from Stinson Beach to Mill Photography By BRUCE KIRSCHNER

Valley and back - extra grueling. According to the official race website, “Double Dipsea is a not just another tough trail run. It's a sadistically designed race, intended to test your patience and perseverance. It rewards those most able to overcome adversity and show grace under fire. It leaves defeated those unable to adapt and quick to give in to frustration.”

To best be prepared for the Dipsea Race, Hibbard decided to scope out the course ahead of time with a fellow Boulder Road Runner Men’s 60+ USATF national championship team member, Chuck Smead, from Mosca, Colorado. Heath was already very familiar with the course. This year was his fourth consecutive event, having placed 5th in 2015, 3rd in 2016, and 9th in 2017. Sixty-six-year-old Smead, who has been a national class long distance runner since the early 1970s, last ran the Dipsea Race in 2012 and, despite a bad fall, managed to finish in 20th place. But that wasn’t enough experience with the race for Hibbard and Smead. They flew out a month in advance to train on the course for six days, including the infamous stairs, “676 steps…brutal, equivalent to a 50-story building,” according to Hibbard.

Smead reported, “We ran every day on the course because you have to figure out how to run it. This is not something that you just show up and run like most races. You’ve got to have experience on it. It’s got rocks, nasty downhills, poison oak, and the stairs…which are scary and really screw me up. The stairs were my biggest challenge. They killed me. I never figured them out. To do it right, you really need to train on the course for a month. You have to figure out

where to best spend your energy on the course.

If you don’t, you’re in trouble.”

Smead added, “I guess this year I was more concerned about preserving myself than I was being really aggressive enough to win this race. To do well in this race, you really have to be aggressive. Heath is built perfect for this race.

He’s good enough on the uphill where he can maintain but he’s a crazy fast on the downhill for his age. Plus he’s got the experience.”

Hibbard finished the original Dipsea Race on June 10 in 1:05:28 for fourth place overall. Smead finished in 21st overall place in 1:09:39. Fellow Coloradans Mark Tatum and Wes Thurman, both from Colorado Springs, finished third overall in 1:00:21 and 22nd overall in 56:45, respectively. All four Coloradans qualified for the infamous and highly coveted Dipsea “Black Shirts.” Organizers award the top 35 finishers black cotton shirts with their finishing place on the back.

As an overall top five Dipsea Race finisher, Hibbard was awarded a big cup trophy.

According to Hibbard, “They give me the trophy, get me on the podium, and put a microphone in my hand. Then they tell me, ‘By the way, you have to give a speech.’ So I just fumbled my way through that!”

A glutton for punishment, Hibbard was back on the same course only six days later to overcome twice the adversity for the outand-back Double Dipsea, capturing first place overall and a second visit to the podium.

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THE MULLET 5K ATTRACTED RUNNERS WHO WANTED TO PROUDLY SHOW OFF THEIR MULLET HAIRSTYLE WHILE RUNNING AT THE NATIONAL WESTERN COMPLEX IN DENVER DURING THE DENVER COUNTY FAIR.

Evergreen Town Race August 5, 2018 Evergreen, CO 813 Finishers (10K = 330; 5K = 483) - Timing by: Racing Underground - Elevation: 10K Start = 7,450’, 5K Start = 7,250’, Finish = 7,075’ - Course Records: 10K - Robert Cheseret, 29:44 (2012); Kristen Zaitz, 33:37 (2013); 5K Jason Hubbard, 14:07 (1998); Nicole Jefferson, 16:29 (2002) 10K Overall Male: 1. Brandon Krage, 24, 31:24; 2. Matt Hensley, 30, 32:05; 3. Bashash Walio, 25, 33:10; 4. Bryant Boyd, 34:28; 5. Billy Martens, 51, 34:38. Masters (40+): 1. Kevin Clemens, 42, 35:52; 2. Larry Smith, 47, 38:46; 3. Monte Merz, 49, 39:34. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Billy Martens, 51, 34:38; 2. Carl Lienert, 51, 40:06; 3.

Jeff Ross, 50, 40:47. Seniors (60+): 1. Michael Young, 61, 38:32; 2. Michael Blanchette, 61, 43:58; 3. David Pierce, 63, 44:20. Overall Female: 1. Grace Morgan, 23, 36:12; 2. Lauren Lipski, 24, 38:08; 3. Maura O’Brien, 24, 39:30; 4.

Jennifer Valentine, 36, 39:41; 5. Kendelle Zemke, 31, 41:42. Masters (40+): 1. Melina Redenius, 44, 43:08; 2. Ginger Cross, 45, 45:10; 3. Sabine Preisinger, 49, 47:57. Grand Masters (50+): 1.

Lila Seal, 58, 43:08; 2. Laura Bruess, 57, 44:06; 3.

Nan Elzinga, 52, 46:35. Seniors (60+): 1. Michelle Lukaschewski, 64, 47:49; 2. Sherry Buckner, 62, 51:48; 3. Maureen Harvey, 61, 1:00:31.

5K Overall Male: 1. Erik Le Roux, 14, 15:24; 2.

Tyler Scholl, 17, 15:37; 3. Colton Stice, 17, 15:57; 4. Bryon Malang, 28, 15:58; 5. Joel Toppin, 22, 16:13. Masters (40+): 1. Andy Rinne, 43, 16:28; 2. CJ Hitz, 45, 17:27; 3. Scott Kukel, 44, 17:52.

Grand Masters (50+): 1. Rick Bruess, 59, 19:41; 2. Tony Phifer, 55, 19:45; 3. Michael Quispe, 51, 20:20. Seniors (60+): 1. Kevin O’Brien, 60, 19:02; 2. Martin Lascelles, 63, 19:04; 3. Elliott Drumright, 61, 20:54. Overall Female: 1. Anna Leer, 33, 17:59; 2. Lanie Szuch, 14, 18:05; 3.

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THE LABOR DAY HALF MARATHON, 10K AND 5K ATTRACTED RUNNERS TO PARKER.

5. Lindsay Parsons, 19, 19:12. Masters (40+): 1.

Brooke Kish, 42, 19:22; 2. Amy Ilfrey, 42, 19:27; 3. Caroline Szuch, 45, 20:58. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Lin Lascelles, 54, 19:58; 2. Stephanie Scholl, 55, 21:06; 3. Sharon Argenio, 52, 21:09.

Seniors (60+): 1. Jan Hughes, 67, 24:57; 2. Polly Zimmerman, 62, 27:38; 3. Nancy Pudwill, 65, 30:36.

1:23:00. Masters (40+): 1. Katie McGee, 45, 1:26:42; 3. Amy HUme, 44, 1:35:51; 3. Kate Cortis, 40, 1:36:32. Grand Masters (50+): 1.

Kim Wright, 50, 1:41:51; 2. Stacy Bohman, 52, 1:47:50; 3. Yolande Miracle-Colburn, 58, 1:52:49.

Seniors (60+): 1. Mary Ferguson, 62, 2:06:27; 2.

Cynthia Gordon, 61, 2:08:14; 3. Debra O’Brien, 61, 2:11:26.

Mt. Sneffels Marathon & Half Marathon August 11, 2018 Ridgeway, CO

Leadville Trail 100 August 18, 2018 Leadville, CO

513 Finishers (26.2M = 63; 13.1M = 450) - Timing by: HAL Sports - Elevation: Marathon Start = 7,000’, Half Marathon Start = 7,700’, Finish = 7,000’ - Course Records: Marathon = Horsecow Lonac, 2:50:08 (2017); Kari Van Zyl, 3:40:44 (2015); Half Marathon = Noah Chepngabit, 1:04:24 (2015); Valentine Kibet, 1:14:34 (2016)

379 Finishers - Timing by: High Altitude Timing Elevation: Start/Finish = 10,157’ - Course Records: Matt Carpenter, 15:42:59 (2005); Ann Trason, 18:06:24 (1994)

Marathon Overall Male: 1. Mario Macias, 37, 2:41:41 CR; 2. Anthony Kunkel, 26, 2:47:30; 3.

Luke Metzger, 42, 3:08:29; 4. Steve Ronberg, 35, 3:19:13; 5. Tyler Welch, 34, 3:28:18. Overall Female: 1. Jennifer Valentine, 36, 3:25:46 CR; 2.

Sarah Hudelson, 48, 3:58:08; 3. Alexis Foran, 35, 4:06:40; 4. Rachel Jensen, 27, 4:07:34; 5. Becky Boyd, 49, 4:33:32.

Half Marathon Overall Male: 1. Wilson Kibogo, 28, 1:06:37; 2. Kiya Dandena, 29, 1:06:46; 3.

Azarya Weldemariam, 39, 1:08:01; 4. Dylan Belles, 25, 1:10:53; 5. Taylor Stack, 19, 1:11:33.

Masters (40+): 1. Steven Fenster, 49, 1:19:46; 2.

Josh Kurz, 41, 1:21:26; 3. Kevin Koch, 43, 1:21:45.

Grand Masters (50+): 1. Shorty Hoffman, 58, 1:27:32; 2. Levi Broyles, 51, 1:29:28; 3. Toby Linder, 53, 1:34:50. Seniors (60+): 1. Leonard Braun, 63, 1:45:51; 2. Frans Valk, 62, 1:46:10; 3.

Sammy Marutzky, 64, 1:46:55. Overall Female: 1. Ivy Kibet, 28, 1:14:49; 2. Elvin Kibet, 28, 1:15:12; 3. Janet Bawcom, 39, 1:17:27; 4. Cleo Whiting, 23, 1:22:53; 5. Clarissa Whiting, 23,

Overall Male: 1. Rob Krar, 41, 15:51:57; 2.

Ryan Kaiser, 39, 17:37:23; 3. Seth Kelly, 34, 18:15:29; 4. Carlos Ruibal, 31, 18:22:11; 5. Jesse Wesolowski, 27, 18:32:00. Masters (40+): 1.

Rob Krar, 41, 15:51:57; 2. Ruben Delgado Gil, 40, 19:53:26; 3. Rodrigo Jimenez, 42, 20:12:34.

Grand Masters (50+): 1. Duncan Oakes, 53, 22:53:31; 2. John Novak, 53, 23:57:32; 3. Don Sims, 52, 24:34:12. Seniors (60+): 1. Gilles Cote, 61, 26:26:48; 2. Mark Perkins, 65, 29:15:39; 3.

Jim Newell, 64, 30:00:28. Overall Female: 1.

Katie Arnold, 46, 19:53:40; 2. Addie Bracy, 32, 21:17:12; 3. Gina Slaby, 37, 23:13:03; 4. Muriel Greening, 34, 29:39:25; 5. Raquel Harper, 39, 24:19:26. Masters (40+): 1. Katie Arnold, 46, 19:53:40; 2. Katrin Silva, 48, 26:24:37; 3. Bibo Gao, 40, 26:59:38. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Teri Buck, 55, 28:36:17; 2. Suzie Talley, 56, 28:41:19; 3. Ines Bayona, 55, 29:22:24.

Photography By RUNNING GURU AND TIM HANCOCK

RUNNERS ENJOYED BEAUTIFUL WEATHER AT THE TAKE 5 IN THE GARDEN OF THE GODS PARK, CHOOSING BETWEEN A 5K OR 5 MILE COURSE.

THE PANCAKE STAMPEDE 5K IN LITTLETON ON AUGUST 12 ATTRACTED TOP YOUTH TALENT.

Pikes Peak Marathon and Ascent August 18 & 19, 2018 Manitou Springs, CO 2,354 Finishers (26.2M = 665; Ascent = 1,689) - Timing by: Pikes Peak Road Runners - Elevation: Start = 6,320’, Marathon Finish = 6,350’, Ascent Finish = 14,100’ Course Records: 26.2M = Matt Carpenter, 3:16:39 (1993); Lynn Bjorklund, 4:15:18 (1981); Ascent = Matt Carpenter, 2:01:06 (1993); Kim Dobson, 2:24:58 (2012) 26.2M Overall Male: 1. Dakota Jones, 27, 3:32:20; 2. Oriol Cardona Coll, 3:37:19; 3. Darren Thomas, 24, 3:37:34; 4. Stian Angermund-Vik, 31, 3:37:48; 5. David Sinclair, 26, 3:38:09. Masters (40+): 1.

Mark Torres, 42, 4:43:59; 2. Nathan Moody, 42, 4:48:05; 3. Eric Hallam, 41, 4:55:09. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Paul Hooge, 55, 5:18:42; 2.

David Corsten, 50, 5:18:42; 3. Dan Turk, 57, 5:31:13. Seniors (60+): 1. Michael Donovan, 66, 6:15:30; 2. Steven Bremner, 63, 6:39:39; 3.

Vincent Steele, 63, 6:43:25. Overall Female: 1.

Megan Kimmel, 38, 4:15:04 CR; 2. Laura Orgue, 31, 4:30:53; 3. Kristina Marie Mascarenas, 29, 4:37:03; 4. Emily Elizabeth Schmitz, 37, 4:44:46; 5. Celine Lafaye, 36, 4:51:17. Masters (40+): 1.

Wendy Stainaker, 40, 5:32:08; 2. Jitka O’Farrell, 40, 5:34:05; 3. Chrissy Steigerwald, 49, 5:57:31.

Grand Masters (50+): 1. Anita Ortiz, 54, 5:19:50; 2. Tracey Anerson, 56, 5:56:17; 3. Janice Flynn, 59, 5:57:19. Seniors (60+): 1. Lori Pratt-Wmith, 65, 8:08:39; 2. Laurel Wright, 64, 9:15:14; 3.

Carol Puente, 62, 9:39:02.

Ascent Overall Male (Race ended at Barr Camp): 1. Azerya Welsemaram, 39, 1:06:26; 2. Ondrej Fejfar, 29, 1:08:42; 3. Alex Pilcher, 33, 1:09:15; 4. Galen Burrell, 39, 1:09:46; 5.

Andy Wacker, 29, 1:10:43. Masters (40+): 1.

Greg Vollet, 43, 1:14:22; 2. Mathias Hasler, 42, 1:19:59; 3. Gerald Romero, 46, 1:20:33. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Simon Gutierrez, 52, 1:15:40; 2. Scott Lebo, 52, 1:16:14; 3. Patrick McGrath, 51, 1:20:18. Seniors (60+): 1. Michael Marting,

61, 1:33:28; 2. Heath Hibbard, 65, 1:34:52; 3.

Timothy Smith, 61, 1:35:52. Overall Female: 1. Kim Dobson, 34, 1:15:48; 2. Tess Amer, 27, 1:21:24; 3. Kim Baugh, 38, 1:28:38; 4. Abigail Topper, 22, 1:31:12; 5. JoAnna Masloski, 40, 1:35:57. Masters (40+): 1. JJoAnna Masloski, 40, 1:35:57; 2. Amy Shertzer, 40, 1:36:55; 3. Donna Garcia, 45, 1:40:38. Grand Masters (50+): 1.

Anita Ortiz, 54, 1:41:17; 2. Elizabeth Anne Vena, 51, 1:43:32; 3. J’ne Day-Lucore, 57, 1:46:58.

Seniors (60+): 1. Stacey Mack, 62, 1:50:22; 2.

Jamee Sue Cochary, 60, 2:00:48; 3. Hae Bolduc, 62, 2:05:58.

Thirsty 13 Half Marathon August 24, 2018 Durango, CO 603 Finishers - Timing by: Durango Running Club - Elevation: Start = 8,078’, Finish = 6,577’ - Course Records: Christian Gering, 1:12:05 (2016); Maggie Yount, 1:20:56 (2015) Overall Male: 1. Ian Huang, 39, 1:15:33; 2. Tom Frantz, 25, 1:17:05; 3. Sam Yount, 36, 1:17:55; 4.

Michael Bovee, 26, 1:18:15; 5. Shawn Goedken, 33, 1:19:40. Masters (40+): 1. Sean Meissner, 45, 1:23:54; 2. Victor Ruggiero, 45, 1:24:13; 3. Mark Wallace, 42, 1:24:32. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Eric Walecki, 52, 1:36:51; 2. Steven Nickerson, 59, 1:39:27; 3. Drew George, 53, 1:40:04. Seniors (60+): 1. Paul Thomford, 61, 1:51:39; 2. Jerry Cohoe, 60, 1:53:28; 3. Timothy Johnson, 60, 1:55:43. Overall Female: 1. Maggie Yount, 34, 1:19:49 CR; 2. Tana Kaskalla, 40, 1:23:50; 3. Nikol Strother, 38, 1:30:21; 4. Kate McLaughlin, 30, 1:31:41; 5. Megan Longinotti, 35, 1:31:57. Masters (40+): 1. Tana Kaskalla, 40, 1:23:50; 2. Kate Cortis, 40, 1:35:50; 3. Julie Thibodeau, 45, 1:40:02. Grand Masters (50+): 1.

Kristin Wheelock, 52, 1:41:20; 2. Susan Fischer, 50, 1:48:03; 3. Becky Wells, 53, 1:50:36. Seniors (60+): 1. Jeannie Guthrie, 60, 2:04:58; 2. Anette

Mullikin, 61, 2:13:43; 3. Bonnie Hall, 63, 2:16:30.

Broncos Back to Football 7K September 2, 2018 Denver, CO 4,292 Finishers - Timing by: HAL Sports - Elevation: Start = 5,266’, Finish = 5,200’ - Course Records: Adam Rich, 22:04 (2016); Alexis Wilbert, 25:12 (2015) Overall Male: 1. Jake Waterman, 26, 21:54 CR; 2. Mason Frank, 29, 22:05; 3. Kenny Foster, 32, 22:19; 4. Adam Rich, 37, 23:00; 5. Nick Petraglia, 35, 24:20. Masters (40+): 1. Andy Rinne, 43, 24:44; 2. Dave Fagen, 41, 25:49; 3. Gerald Romero, 47, 27:20. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Juan

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THE ALL-OUT RUNAPALOOZA TOOK PLACE ON AUGUST 25 IN ARVADA.

Herrera, 50, 27:46; 2. Tim Sandell, 53, 29:29; 3.

Jim Leyba, 52, 29:32. Seniors (60+): 1. Elliott Drumright, 61, 30:10; 2. David Ceranich, 63, 30:25; 3. Brad Deroo, 62, 31:36. Overall Female: 1. Kotomi Tsubokura, 22, 24:52 CR; 2. Misaki Minami, 20, 24:52; 3. Chihiro Imai, 18, 26:08; 4. Carrie Verdon, 24, 26:42; 5. Nicole Trottier, 31, 27:20. Masters (40+): 1. Katy Kappler, 41, 30:09; 2. Barbara Peterson, 49, 32:16; 3. Lisa Boes, 41, 32:30. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Linda Haire, 55, 32:54; 2. Mary Hohnholt, 54, 34:27; 3.

Randi Pepper, 52, 34:40. Seniors (60+): 1. Donna Goldberg, 60, 32:47; 2. Karla Kelly, 62, 38:04; 3.

Cynthia Gordona, 61, 39:11.

Labor Day Half Marathon September 3, 2018 Parker, CO 544 Finishers (13.1M = 190; 10K = 130; 5K = 224) Timing by: HAL Sports - Elevation: Start/Finish = 5,869’ - Course Records: New course 13.1M Overall Male: 1. Matthieu Caldwell, 1:17:55 CR; 2. Dan Taylor, 1:19:28; 3. Tim Geldean, 1:21:11; 4. Abdulmohsen Alali, 1:21:32; 5. David Gramer, 1:22:01. Masters (40+): 1. Tim Geldean, 1:21:11; 2. Michael Ballard, 1:24:30; 3. Nathan Hackos, 1:32:23. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Carl Mather, 1:33:33; 2. Clif Miskell, 1:41:48; 3. Dave Park, 1:45:48. Seniors (60+): 1. Robert Humphries, 1:40:59; 2. Michael Blanchette, 1:46:42; 3. Bruce Mansur, 2:01:43.

Overall Female: 1. Julie Olsen-Smith, 1:30:22 CR; 2. Connilee Walter, 1:34:11; 3. Sarah Cottle, 1:38:51; 4. Jennifer Burke, 1:39:00; 5. Jody Robinson, 1:39:01. Masters (40+): 1. Connilee Walter, 1:34:11; 2. Jody Robinson, 1:39:01; 3.

Angela Lenth, 1:44:14. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Kris Minne, 1:47:11; 2. Lisa Cook, 1:52:30; 3.

Marla Boone, 2:00:19. Seniors (60+): 1. Judy Thieme, 2:24:05; 2. Abby Ross, 3:10:21.

10K Overall Male: 1. Brian Folts, 35:26 CR; 2.

Logan Martin, 39:22; 3. Kent Wories, 41:45; 4.

Jack Pottle, 44:21; 5. Jonathan Harvey, 44:51.

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Masters (40+): 1. Jonathan Harvey, 44:51; 2.

Chris Curtis, 50:10; 3. Bill Luce, 54:15. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Mark Bryant, 45:47; 2. Gregory Daniels, 53:57; 3. Michael Wearsch, 54:00.

Seniors (60+): 1. Jack Pottle, 44:21; 2. Javier Abrego, 46:34; 3. Scott Shultz, 50:46. Overall Female: 1. Monica Folts, 40:06 CR; 2. Danielle Bushaw, 44:13; 3 Jessica Chapman, 45:34; 4.

Allison Martin, 47:30; 5. Ricki Granger, 47:49.

Masters (40+): 1. Samantha Grimm, 49:38; 2.

Joy Jensen, 52:49; 3. Kristin Ruehle, 53:24.

Grand Masters (50+): 1. Michelle Hancock, 48:41; 2. Maysa Campistrous, 57:55; 3. Monica Gomez, 59:42. Seniors (60+): 1. Nancy Wetherill, 58:34; 2. Susan Ketchum, 59:54; 3. Debbie Husar, 1:00:06.

5K Overall Male: 1. Zach Rumlow, 18:14 CR; 2. Daniel Myers, 18:24; 3. Ben Wilson, 19:09; 4. AJ Springer, 19:34; 5. Rage Geringer, 20:20.

Masters (40+): 1. Daniel Myers, 18:24; 2. Greg Newman, 20:31; 3. Paul Warthen, 20:53. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Damon Engelby, 24:07; 2.

Mark Gianetto, 28:28; 3. Joe McCarthy, 29:13.

Seniors (60+): 1. Steve Bell, 23:45; 2. Shawn Farrel, 24:25; 3. George Rumphsmith, 25:03.

Overall Female: 1. Emily Renner, 27, 19:53 CR; 2. Anna Gasiewicz, 21:17; 3. Aubrey Samuelson, 23:16; 4. Linda Gryski, 24:06; 5. Eileen Scala, 24:43. Masters (40+): 1. Linda Gryski, 24:06; 2.

Arica Bores, 26:13; 3. Kim Layton, 28:30. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Cynthia Morse, 29:28; 2.

Carla CdeBaca, 30:25; 3. Tricia Gallagher, 31:06.

Seniors (60+): 1. Sue Morgan, 33:39; 2. Pam Huber, 34:36; 3. Suzy Rautenstraus, 36:26.

Blue Shoe Run 5K September 8, 2018 Denver, CO 572 Finishers (5K = 490; 1.5M = 82) - Timing by: Timberline Timing - Elevation: Start/Finish = 5,280’ Course Records: Unkonwn 5K Overall Male: 1. Greg Reindl, 34, 17:32; 2.

Matthew Thompson, 33, 18:22; 3. Travis Tung, 37, 20:37; 4. Matt Burch, 26, 21:15; 5. Chin Goh, 46, 21:17. Masters (40+): 1. Chin Goh, 46, 21:17; 2. Tim Riddle, 44, 25:07; 3. Kary Klismet, 47, 26:59. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Larry Goldbrum, 57, 24:14; 2. Juan Montoya, 51, 24:54; 3. Tom Rampy, 50, 25:38. Seniors (60+): 1. Tim Forbert, 61, 26:17; 2. Timothy Kirby, 64, 28:07; 3. William Pasczyk, 60, 28:39. Overall Female: 1. Desiree Martinez, 23, 21:29; 2. Abby Bartolotta, 31, 22:08; 3. Elizabeth Stapleton, 40, 23:15; 4.

Braileigh Jay, 35, 23:17; 5. Arie Anahory, 25, 23:50. Masters (40+): 1. Elizabeth Stapleton, 40, 23:15; 2. Andrea Sotelo, 45, 26:02; 3. Sabrina Bayles, 46, 27:03. Grand Masters (50+): 1.

Sherri Stroh, 58, 30:19; 2. Sharri Siegwarth, 55, 31:19; 3. Deanna Cabaniss, 51, 31:38. Seniors (60+): 1. Pat Wassik, 60, 24:07; 2. Karen Yockey, 61, 31:32; 3. Gale Garcia, 63, 34:44.

1.5 Overall Male: 1. Grant Riddle, 13, 18:14; 2.

Nathan Riddle, 7, 18:46; 3. Aiden Perez, 9, 27:48; 4. Manuel Perez, 34, 27:49; 5. Sammy Perez, 6, 27:50. Overall Female: 1. Josephine Dowling, 11, 21:33; 2. Leann Perez, 30, 27:47; 3. Erin DunbarJohnson, 39, 28:41; 4. Melanie Malaspina, 6, 29:33; 5. Gwen Malaspina, 6, 29:33.

EDDIE PEREZ AND ANNIE POLAND WERE THE FASTEST MALE AND FEMALE PARTICIPANTS DURING THE FIT FOODIE FESTIVAL 5K.

Equinox Half Marathon September 16, 2018 Fort Collins, CO 1,061 Finishers (13.1 = 765; 5M = 296) - Timing by: Timberline Timing - Elevation: Half Marathon Start = 5,885’, 5M Start = 5,381’, Finish = 5,230’ - Course Records: 13.1M = Jeremy Freed, 1:05:38 (2012); AnnMarie Kirkpatrick, 1:15:17 (2017); 5M = Mike Callor, 26:43 (2013); Claudia Becque, 28:54 (2015) 13.1M Overall Male: 1. Michael Chavez, 33, 1:14:04; 2. Michael Kraus, 43, 1:14:59; 3.

Alexander Mauro, 25, 1:15:17; 4. Matthew Drake, 30, 1:19:30; 5. Roger Sayre, 60, 1:19:47.

Masters (40+): 1. Michael Kraus, 43, 1:14:59; 2. John Derose, 48, 1:24:48; 3. Ben Dover, 46, 1:24:56. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Billy Mertens, 51, 1:27:24, Arnie Salazar, 50, 1:27:28; 3. Terry Kruse, 51, 1:33:08. Seniors (60+): 1. Roger Sayre, 60, 1:19:47; 2. Paul Hughes, 61, Pagosa Springs, 1:20:32; 3. George Braun, 64, 1:31:51. Overall Female: 1. Valerie Martus, 26, 1:18:07; 2. Becca Rauch, 31, 1:25:57; 3. Kristyn Roth, 33, 1:26:30; 4. Maddie Glass, 28, 1:28:25; 5. Emmy Briggs, 1:31:17. Masters (40+): 1. Melinda Karlson, 42, 1:34:09; 2. Kirsten Borbe, 43, 1:35:08; 3. Marva Hewett, 46, 1:37:46. Grand Masters (50+): 1.

Mercedes Gil, 56, 1:35:15; 2. Lisa Stevens, 54, 1:37:36; 3. Suzie Houston-Steel, 58, 1:42:53.

Seniors (60+): 1. Julie Monroe, 63, 1:48:14; 2.

Sherry Buckner, 63, 1:55:01; 3. Cathy Condon, 61, 1:56:32.

5M Overall Male: 1. Christopher Rego, 29, 26:53; 2. Cody Moore, 23, 27:57; 3. Jacob Flaws, 32, 28:22; 4. Tenzing Santistevan, 18, 34:02; 5. Brian Giauque, 50, 34:33. Masters (40+): 1. Gregg Thomas, 44, 37:13; 2. Kirk Mackin, 43, 37:55; 3.

Jerome Hilliard, 40, 38:32. Grand Masters (50+): 1. Brian Giauque, 50, 34:33; 2. Joe Moreng, 54, 36:18; 3. Michael Thompson, 52, 37:00. Seniors (60+): 1. William Doe, 65, 39:46; 2. Tom Schipper, 65, 46:45; 3. Patrick Brennan, 80, 1:02:47.

Overall Female: 1. Marissa Demercurio, 34, 35:02; 2. Brandi Broadley, 33, 35:27; 3. Cassa Photography By RUNNING GURU AND CHRISTINA MOSCHETTI

Hollenbeck, 29, 38:08; 4. Heather Defazio, 43, 39:51; 5. Shannon Pipes, 32, 39:37. Masters (40+): 1. Heather Defazio, 43, 39:51; 2. Karen Bennett, 47, 40:54; 3. Sarah Westover, 41, 41:43.

Grand Masters (50+): 1. Ruth Miller, 52, 41:21; 3. Cathy Kechter, 55, 43:41; 3. Kirrsten Howard, 52, 43:53. Seniors (60+): 1. Pam Boudreau, 62, 41:42; 3. Vicki Phillips, 61, 49:04; 3. Laurie Landolt, 63, 52:00.

Hot Chocolate 15K/5K October 7, 2018 Denver, CO 7,315 Finishers (2,830 - 15K; 4,485 - 5K) - Timing by: Ram Racing - Elevation: Start/Finish = 5,280’ - Course Records: 15K = Alejandro Jimenez, 49:31 (2015); Ashley Brasovan, 56:12 (2016); 5K = Daniel Docherty, 15:35 (2013); Tabor Scholl, 18:39 (2014)

RUNNERS ENJOYED GORGEOUS WEATHER FOR THE SO LONG TO SUMMER 5K & 10K ON THE BIKE PATHS IN PARKER.

Tadolini, 21:36; 5. Gracie Prosceno, 22:20.

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Grand Masters (50+): 1. Christine Crabb, 1:12:19; 2. Michelle Mueller, 1:12:48; 3. Melissa Moberly, 1:13:04. Seniors (60+): 1. Alyn Park, 1:21:55; 2. Susan Conney, 1:24:15; 3. Suzanne Roseberry, 1:25:13.

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Broomfield Trails Marathon; 6:30 AM; Broomfield Community Center, Broomfield CO; broomfieldmarathon.com

HRCA Turkey Day 5K; 9:00 AM; Shea Stadium, Highlands Ranch CO; highlandsranchchamber.org Louisville Turkey Trot 5K; 9:00 AM; Louisville CO; louisvilleturkeytrot.com Mile High United Way Turkey Trot 4M; 10:00 AM; Washington Park, Denver CO; unitedwaydenver.org

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NCMC Turkey Trot 5K and 2K; 9:00 AM; North Colorado Medical Center, Greeley CO; ncmcfoundation.org

CMRA Veterans Run 6.6M; 10:00 AM; Hildebrand Ranch Park, Littleton CO; comastersrun.org Girls on the Run 5K; 10:00 AM; America the Beautiful Park, Colorado Springs CO; girlsontherunrockies.org

Turkey Day 5K; 8:00 AM; Parker Recreation Center, Parker CO; parkerrec.com Turkey Day 5K; 9:30 AM; Frisco CO; runtherockies.com

Pizza Pie 5K/10K; 9:00 AM; City Park, Denver CO; featonthestreet. com

TURKEY ROCK TROT 5K 9:30 AM; Douglas County Fairgrounds, Castle Rock CO; turkeyrocktrot.com

Turkey Trot 10K/2M; 9:00 AM; Altona Middle School, Longmont CO; longmontcolorado.gov

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Strider 5 Mile Time Trial; 1:11 AM; River Trail at Brachs Market, Grand Junction CO; mesamonumentstriders.com WINTERFEST 5K 9:00 AM; Margaret Carpenter Rec Center, Thornton CO; cityofthornton.net 12/09

Jingle Bell Run/Walk for Arthritis 5K; 10:15 AM; Washington Park, Denver CO; events.arthritis.org

12/15 - SANTA STAMPEDE 5K/10K Join us for a Christmas Classic!

The Santa Stampede 5K/10K is a flat and fast 5K and 10K held along the banks of the scenic South Platte River.

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Erie Elves 5K and Kids’ Fun Run; 10:00 AM; Boulder Valley Velodrome, Erie CO; erieelves5k. com

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Community After-Turkey Trot 5K; 9:00 AM; Avery Brewing Company, Boulder CO

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KRFC Resolution Run 5K; 5:00 PM; City Park, Fort Collins CO; krfc.fm

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FEBRUARY 2/3 - SUPER BOWL 5K You spent months preparing for this day with sweat, blood, and tears (and maybe a few beers), now it is time to hit the line and test your running back speed at Denver’s largest Super Bowl Run. 10:00 AM; Denver, CO www.rundenverseries.com

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Catch Me If You Can 5K/10K; 9:00 AM; Fort Collins CO; frontrangefreeze.com Heart Throb 5K; 10:00 AM; Memorial Park, Arvada CO; heartthrobrun.com

Resolution 5K; 12:00 PM; Washington Park, Denver CO; resolution5k.com

Resolute Runner 5K; 8:00 AM; Arvada Memorial Park, Arvada CO; resolutionrunner.com

Arctic Prairie Dog Half Marathon/10K/5K; 8:00 AM; Coal Creek Golf Course, Louisville CO; prairiedoghalf.com

Frosty’s Frozen Five & Ten is a flat and fast 5 mile and 10 mile race held each January in Littleton.

ToyDrop 10K; 9:00 AM; Loveland CO; sweetheartcityracing.com Christmas Carol Classic 5K/10K; 9:00 AM; City Park, Denver CO; featonthestreet.com

PPRR Nielson Challenge 2M; 8:00 AM; North Monument Valley Park, Colorado Springs CO; pprrun.org

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Scramblin’ Scrooge 5K/10K; 9:00 AM; City Park, Denver CO; featonthestreet.com

Turkey Trot 5K; 8:30 AM; McKee Medical Center, Loveland CO; mckeefoundationevents.com

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All-Out Fa La La 1 Mile/5K/10K/ Half-Marathon; 9:00 AM; City Park, Westminster CO; alloutmultipro. com CMRA Sand Creek 5M; 10:00 AM; Bluff Lake Nature Center, Denver CO; comastersrun.org

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10:00 AM; Denver, CO www.thegreatcandyrun.com PPRR Fall Series IV 6.5M; 10:30 AM; Palmer Park, Colorado Springs CO; pprrun.org

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11/11 - THE GREAT CANDY RUN 5K Runners, walkers, and spectators enjoy the themed 5K course, a family festival featuring games, activity stations, amazing face painting, great refreshments, giveaways and much, much more!

Rock Canyon Half Marathon; 9:00 AM; City Park, Pueblo CO; runsignup.com

Harvesting Hope 5K; 10:00 AM; Stapleton Central Park, Denver CO; harvestinghope5k.com

RMRR Prairie Gateway Park 9M and 5K; 9:00 AM; Prairie Gateway Park, Commerce City CO; rmrr.org 11/10

BROOMFIELD TURKEY DAY 5K/10K 9:00 AM; Broomfield Commons Open Space, Broomfield CO; broomfieldturkeyday.com

Gobble Wobble 5K; 8:30 AM; Clement Park, Littleton CO; gobblewobblerun.org

PPRR Nielson Challenge 2M; 8:00 AM; North Monument Valley Park, Colorado Springs CO; pprrun.org 11/04

RMRR Wash Park 4.5M; 9:00 AM; Washington Park, Denver CO; rmrr.org

Fort Collins Thanksgiving Day Run 4M; 9:00 AM; Downtown, Ft. Collins CO; fctdayrun.com

Live United 5K Color Run; 9:00 AM; Twin Rivers Park, Greeley CO; runsignup.com

Jingle Bell Run 5K; 8:00 AM; The Ranch Events Complex, Loveland CO; events.arthritis.org

Briargate YMCA Turkey Trot 5K; 9:00 AM; Briargate Family YMCA, Colorado Springs CO; ppymca.org

Durango Turkey Trot 5M; 10:00 AM; Fort Lewis College, Durango CO; durangorunningclub.org

HRCA Backcountry Wilderness Half Marathon; 9:00 AM; Backcountry Wilderness Area, Lone Tree CO; raceroster.com

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TH E LI G HTE R S I D E

The DeMartini Twins

Amy Hayman, left and her twin sister, Sarah Noble.

“S

omeone has to be last,” I said. Okay. I’ve talked myself into it. I’ll sign up for the Mountain Avenue Mile.

I turned 82 not long ago. There’s no such thing as age groups for this community-friendly event that starts less than a block from my house on Mountain Avenue in Fort Collins. The course heads east toward downtown on a tree-shaded boulevard, then turns north and finishes a few blocks away near a small park. It doesn’t draw much of a crowd—maybe a couple hundred people who compete in six divisions ranging from a fun run to boys and girls competitive, open male, open female, a four-person relay and a Beauty and the Beast division where all the male and female entrants 40 and over compete together. Each division has a separate starting time. Participants cheer each other on, then migrate to a popular Mexican restaurant for awards and margaritas.

With some trepidation, I paid my $15, pinned on a number and waited until it was time for the beauties and the beasts to approach the start line. Turns out, there was plenty of time. And I spent it well, visiting with Amy and Sarah, who I’d known years ago as the DeMartini twins, waiting with me to compete in the Beauty and the Beast division.

“I’m so delighted to finally meet you two,” I said. The twins were household names in the Colorado running scene during their high school and college days in the late 1980’s-early 1990’s. As cross country runners at Poudre High School in Fort Collins, both of them earned state championships. I’d watched their careers, I recognized them, but we had never met until that early August evening on Mountain Avenue.

Smiling and vivacious, they shared that between them they had 11 children ranging in age from four to 18. They were still committed to running every day. Several of their children were runners. As sisters and twins, they remained as close as they had been while growing up. “You two are a story and I want to be the one to tell it,” I told them. We made a plan to meet and talk.

Moments later they sprinted out of sight. I didn’t see them again. Just for the record, I wasn’t last. There was one person behind me—so far behind me that I thought I was last until a friendly fellow told me that there was someone behind me. I did the mile in 7:46. The twins finished at 6:53 and 7:02.

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Growing up in Fort Collins, as the “middle pair” in a four-girl family, Sarah and Amy first caught the attention of Poudre High School cross-country coach Randy Yaussi. He corralled them in the hallway early in their high school careers and talked them into going out for cross-country, probably because he’d been coaching their older sister, Mary, knew talent when he saw it, and was counting on the twins’ genes.

The girls hadn’t run much until then, but it wasn’t long before they were valued members of the newly-formed girls’ cross-country team. In those early days, girls’ cross-country was in its infancy in Colorado. Mary had trained with the boys. By the time the twins came along, enough girls had emerged to form a small team.

“I told Sarah and Amy that they were going to be my next two superstars. I was right,” Yaussi, now principal of Ault High School, said.

“They would run through brick walls for me. Super coachable. Two of the best human beings I’ve ever met. I love talking about them.” The time would come when he entered them in cross-country nationals where they took first and second place.

When the girls were 15, they spent a year in Africa. Their dad, Colorado State University professor, Dr. James DeMartini, took his family to Kenya for a year where he studied cattle disease. Along with their sisters, Sarah and Amy attended the international school in Nairobi.

While there, the twins got involved in basketball, field hockey and, almost incidentally, they ran track as well.

Back home and back at Poudre High School, they zeroed in on running. At a 30-team cross-country event in Aurora, a suburb of Denver, they emerged first and second overall. Later, at the state crosscountry meet, Sarah took first place for her school. After being targeted and roughly pushed to the ground by a competitor, Amy picked herself up and continued to run, catching up enough to finish in fifth place. T. S. Berger, Poudre’s assistant coach, called Amy’s recovery “a stunning event.”

Berger remembers a time during the twins’ final year at Poudre when Amy beat her sister by less than a second in a two-mile track meet.

“With a half-mile to go, it was just the two of them out ahead,” he said.

“First Sarah would surge, then Amy, and it went on like that until the finish.”

Although it’s hard for me to believe, as this outgoing pair chats openly with me, the twins admit to being very shy until their college days. Coach Berger, an art teacher as well as a coach at Poudre, had both girls in class. “It was tough to get either of them to answer a question with more than a single word,” he said. He recalled treating the cross-country team to hamburgers at Burger King after an away meet.

When everyone had ordered and were enjoying their meal, the twins were standing around frozen, looking forlorn. They had not ordered any food. “Turns out they had never been to a fast food restaurant, didn’t know what to do, and certainly were not going to ask anyone,” Berger said.

As the time to attend college drew near, the girls made plans to go to the same school. Because of their high school running records, they had some tempting scholarship opportunities away from home. In the end, because of Colorado State University’s warm welcome from coach Doug Max, they elected to stay in their hometown.

They moved into an athletic dorm where, according to Amy, “We were the annoying girls. They didn’t like us much because we had no trouble getting up at 5 a.m. to get in an early run.”

And therein lies the secret of their relationship with each other, the source of their success as runners, and in their lives as wives, mothers, and compassionate members of their communities.

“We’re competitive, but not with each other,” Sarah says.

“We push each other,” Amy adds.

They agree that their common love of running makes them closer than they would be otherwise. From the beginning of their running careers, they have competed almost as if they were one. They don’t care about which one of them comes out on top in any given race. What they do care about is that they take advantage of the push they get from each other in order to do their best.

“I see them as four feet with a single focus,” Berger says. He remembers Amy dominating in their early high school years and Sarah taking over that role later on. Ask the girls and they’ll tell you they can’t remember who was faster when. And now, at age 45, with a passel of kids between them, they chuckle about who runs the fastest. “It’s the one of

us who has the longest time span since the birth of their youngest child,” they like to say.

Now at 45, running is an important and continuous thread in their lives. It’s not often they manage a run together these days. Sarah lives in Wellington, north of Fort Collins and Amy lives about 25 miles south in Loveland. What with school and activity schedules, getting together for a run is not easy. Yet, every morning they both go out alone.

“Usually between three and five miles,” Amy says.

“And sometimes it’s as long as nine or 13,” Sarah chimes in. “It doesn’t matter. We just know we need to run.”

There was a time when Sarah’s husband Tom questioned why she needed to go for a run when there were so many other things they could be doing. “But then he got it,” she said. “He and Amy’s husband, Todd, understand that running is something we need to do.”

At CSU, Amy studied art education and Sarah followed in her father’s footsteps and studied animal science. Together they entered marathons in Minnesota and Michigan in hopes of qualifying for the Olympic Trials and missing each time by a couple of minutes.

By the time she was through college, Amy had been dating Todd for four years. Sarah met Tom near the end of her college career.

The twins married within six months of each other in 1998 and 1999.

No. They’re not competitive—especially not with each other, and not when it comes to having babies either. Yet, from all appearances, it looks like they are keeping pace with each. They have children ages four to 18, and Amy recently learned that she’s expecting identical twins next Spring. “I have one more month of running to enjoy,” she said. She’s thrilled to be pregnant, especially after having lost a baby last year.

Amy was teaching art in an elementary school when she had her first child. “It was so hard for me to leave her to go to work,” she said. She finally quit her job and made the decision to homeschool her children. The two older ones attend high school now but she continues to homeschool the younger three, now twelve, ten, and six.

“I’m a pretty flexible home school teacher,” she says. “I do it because I love teaching and because I want to be with my children. We try to complete school work early in the day so that we have time to play.

We like to study until noon and then go fishing.”

The “big kids,” Jackie and Lawson, now attend Loveland High School where Jackie runs cross country and Lawson played football for a time, now wrestles and runs as well. When Berger dug up a photo of Amy displaying her state championship trophy and sent it to her recently, her children were surprised. “Mom, we didn’t know you were state champion!”

Amy finds time to pursue a thriving pottery business, producing many awards for running races. Her work is in Stonehenge Gallery in Georgetown, Colorado and at the Cupboard in Fort Collins.

Sarah returned to school to earn a masters degree and spent two years teaching technology education at Rocky Mountain High School in Fort Collins. “I haven’t used my animal science degree but for many years I hoped to go to vet school. That’s probably not going to happen now.” Her daughter, Amber, and son, Dean, attend Poudre High School, her alma mater, and have been drawn to cross-country. Dean also wrestles and Amber plays basketball.

Sarah and Amy’s children see each other often enough that they feel more like siblings than cousins. From the time they first had children, the twins have been sharing childcare with each other. As busy as they are, they still find time to talk to each other by phone “at least four times a day,” Amy says.

“Sometimes more often if something funny happens,” Sarah adds.

As for the Mountain Avenue Mile, 2018, they came in nine seconds apart, four feet with a single focus. They promise to return in 2019 to run together, pushing each other as hard as they can. Their times won’t matter to them. The fact that they are running together is what will be important.

Author Libby James is a member of the Colorado Running Hall of Fame and has set World and American records from the 5K to the half marathon. At 82, she has been running strong for more than 40 years. She is the author of “Still Running,” which is currently available on Amazon.com. You can learn more about her at www.LibbyJames.net.

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