Tag: running
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Ramsey: Colorado College grad wins Marathon, savors view from atop America’s Mountain
It’s easy to overlook the outlandishly large peak that dominates our landscape. It’s sometimes white and sometimes brown but always gorgeous and massive. It’s Pikes Peak. Alex Nichols grew up in Minneapolis. He spent his junior high and high school years running along abandoned railroad tracks that had been turned into trails. “The flattest, straight…
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Kim Dobson gets best of Brandy Erholtz in their continued Pikes Peak Ascent rivalry
A storied rivalry between Colorado mountain runners Kim Dobson and Brandy Erholtz folded back yet another chapter Saturday at the Pikes Peak Ascent. “It is fun between us,” said Dobson, a four-time winner of the Ascent. “We seem to go back and forth in races.” Dobson has gotten the better of late, though. After eclipsing…
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Touru Miyahara captures Pikes Peak Ascent after Andy Wacker leads them astray
Right when it looked like Boulder resident Andy Wacker would break his recent stretch of second-place finishes, he lost track of the course, and then the lead. The former Colorado-Boulder track and cross country standout poked his head above tree line on the Pikes Peak Ascent with a 30-second lead and three miles left in…
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Highlights from the Pikes Peak Marathon, Ascent
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Here is The Gazette’s coverage of the two events: Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save
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Why were times slower at the Pikes Peak Ascent?
Why were times slower at the Pikes Peak Ascent? The top times at the Pikes Peak Ascent on Saturday were much slower than those of a year ago. In fact, race-winner Touru Miyahara’s time of 2 hours, 15 minutes and 42 seconds was more than five minutes slower than 2014-winner Sage Canaday’s time of 2:10.03.…
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Why were times slower at the Pikes Peak Ascent?
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Why were times slower at the Pikes Peak Ascent? The top times at the Pikes Peak Ascent on Saturday were much slower than those of a year ago. In fact, race-winner Touru Miyahara’s time of…
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Kim Dobson gets best of Brandy Erholtz in their continued Pikes Peak Ascent rivalry
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A storied rivalry between Colorado mountain runners Kim Dobson and Brandy Erholtz folded back yet another chapter Saturday at the Pikes Peak Ascent. “It is fun between us,” said Dobson, a four-time winner of the…
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No Incline, no problem. Satisfy that Incline itch with these Colorado trails
On a rebar-studded slope in Pikes Peak’s shadow, it packs more pain per square foot than some hikers care to endure. Many others grow hopelessly addicted. It’s true: There’s nothing quite like the Manitou Incline, a heart-pounding, mile-long ascent up an old tourist railway that’s grown into one of the state’s better loved trails. But…
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No Incline, no problem. Satisfy that Incline itch with these Colorado trails
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save On a rebar-studded slope in Pikes Peak’s shadow, it packs more pain per square foot than some hikers care to endure. Many others grow hopelessly addicted. It’s true: There’s nothing quite like the Manitou Incline,…