Colorado Runner

Race Director Phil Stewart announced  that U.S. Olympians Janet Cherebon-Bawcom, Jen Rhines and Colleen De Reuck will be competing in the upcoming USA Women’s 10 Mile Championship, presented by America’s Credit Unions, which is being held in conjunction with the 2013 Credit Union Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, April 7. On the men’s side, last year’s winner, Allan Kiprono will return to defend his title, and will face 2012 runner-up Lani Kiplagat. With nearly four weeks to go until race day, both the men’s and women’s fields are sure to see notable additions; the complete roster of elite runners will be announced on Wednesday, April 3. “I’m pleased [...]

LONGMONT — Before Thursday, Christian Thompson had no idea the Sunrise Stampede was coming up. By mid-morning on Saturday, Thompson was the Stampede champion.

The road to London will soon take a journey through Duluth for a pair of U.S. Olympians as Kara Goucher and Abdi Abdirahman officially have registered for the USA Half Marathon Championships to be held Saturday, June 16 in Duluth as part of Grandma’s Marathon weekend. The event will be a homecoming for Goucher (left, PhotoRun), 33, who grew up in Duluth and graduated from Duluth East High School in 1996. Now residing in Portland, Ore., Goucher competed in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in both the 5000 meters and 10,000 meters, placing ninth and tenth, respectively. Goucher and Abdirahman earned spots on the 2012 U.S. Olympic [...]

Boulder’s Colleen De Reuck (age 47) finished 38th in 2:38:52 at the 2012 Olympic Marathon Trials in Houston. Watch more video of USA Olympic Marathon Trials Houston 2012 on flotrack.org Video courtesy of Flotrack.org.

DAEGU, South Korea – Tera Moody (Colorado Springs, Colo.) ran her second fastest ever marathon to finish 17th in 2:32:04 in the first final of the 13th IAAF World Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Team USA also advanced seven athletes from the qualifying rounds during the morning session at Daegu Stadium. Nine Americans made their World Championships debut; however, none of the five who were competing in the qualifying rounds advanced into the finals. Meanwhile, as expected, four Olympians led Team USA in the qualifying rounds: Team USA moved a step closer toward securing its first ever medal in the [...]

Tera Moody surged to victory on the super fast Classic 10K course in Colorado Springs on Saturday. Her winning time of 33:58 was just under 30 seconds faster that Collen De Reuck of Boulder, who at age 47 still continues to run at an incredibly fast pace. In the men’s race, Augustus Maiyo of Colorado Springs won with a time of 30:01. Josh Eberly of Gunnison placed second in 30:20, and Charles Hillig of Denver was third in 30:31. In all, seven runners broke the 31:00 minute barrier. For full results, please click here. All photos by Dee Budden. Videos [...]

Boulder, CO – Monday marks the 33rd Memorial Day running of the Bolder Boulder. From fun times to fast times,  CRM readers share some projected highlights. First timers and fun BolderBoulder estimates 50,000 participants for this year’s race, but with small-group wave starts for walkers, runners and qualified runners, even the newcomers won’t get lost in the crowd. Karlie Fisher, an ICU nurse and runner from LaJunta says she’s “just doing [it] for first time….and having fun with two of [her] best friends”. Famous for the party on and off the course, the race is known for the estimated 150,000 [...]

At this weekend’s Boulder Half Marathon, 10M and 10k, Colleen DeReuck and Martha Tenorio, both former Olympians and current masters runners, battled it out. DeReuck took top honors in the end. Katie Blackett, a former Olympic trials qualifier, was third. Mario Macias won last year’s Spring Half and racked up yet another win taking top honors in the men’s half marathon, besting Justin Ricks by nearly 2 ½ minutes. Robert Thayer was third. The half marathon had 993 finishers. The 10 mile race drew 130 participants, and was won by Broomfield’s Michael Kraus and Boulder’s Ineke Mushovic. The 10k drew [...]

Olympic Bronze medalist and American record holder Shalane Flanagan (Portland, Ore.) dominated the women’s field to win her fifth USA Cross Country title, while Brent Vaughn (Blackhawk, Colo.) surprised the men’s field to win his first USA title Saturday at the 2011 USA Cross Country Championships. In addition to the national titles up for grabs in San Diego, open and junior men and women qualified to represent Team USA at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships March 20 in Punta Umbria, Spain. In the women’s 8 km, Flanagan took an early lead and never looked back. Leading by more than [...]

Two-time Olympian Alan Culpepper and four-time Olympian Colleen De Reuck will join the sold-out field of 10,000 runners in the inaugural NYC Half-Marathon Presented by NIKE on Sunday, August 27, it was announced today by New York Road Runners. Both marathoners represented the United States in Athens after winning their respective Olympic Marathon Trials in 2004. The professional field grew even stronger with the announcement that Benita Johnson (Australia), Constantina Tomescu-Dita (Romania), and Abdi Abdirahman (United States) will also participate in the 13.1-mile race through the streets of New York. Marathon world record-holder Paul Tergat and Olympic marathon silver medalist [...]

Back when she was 15 and wanting to go out for the Durango High School track team, Elva Dryer (left, #1) promised her father that he if bought her a pair of running shoes, she would one day run in the Olympic Games. Buying shoes for one of their eight children was a sacrifice for Alionso and Abigail Martinez, first generation immigrants from Mexico, but their sacrifice paid off when Dryer made good on her promise by competing at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics. On a damp and cool Memorial Day, Dryer, 33, continued making her family proud and ascending [...]

The 2005 BolderBOULDER International Team Challenge is set. So far, 18 teams have signed up for the 8th International Team Challenge at the 27th BolderBOULDER on Memorial Day, May 30th. On the men’s side, eleven teams include: USA, Ethiopia (ETH), Kenya (KEN), Mexico (MEX), Korea (KOR), Russia (RUS), Great Britain (GBR), Australia (AUS), Ecuador (ECU), Colombia (COL) and Team Colorado. On the women’s side, seven teams include: USA, Kenya (KEN), Mexico (MEX), Korea (KOR), Japan (JPN), Romania (ROM), and Team Colorado. Men’s teams: United States = USA 1. Peter Julian, CO 2. Jason Hubbard, CO 3. Chris Graff, VA Russia [...]

De Reuck, Dryer, Rhines  Boulder, CO – May 19, 2005: BolderBOULDER Professional Athlete Coordinator Rich Castro officially announced today that Deena Kastor is out of the 2005 competition due to a stress reaction in her left foot. Fellow Olympian and 2003 BolderBOULDER teammate Elva Dryer will replace Kastor on the team. The U.S. women are set to race against top teams from Mexico (defending team champion), Romania, Japan and Russia. Colleen De Reuck, 41, of Boulder, CO has raced BolderBOULDER twelve times with three second-place finishes (’96/’98/’02). Colleen won her second consecutive USA 8K Cross Country Championship last February and in 2004, [...]

U.S. 10,000m record holder Deena Kastor has withdrawn from the U.S. team for the Celestial Seasonings Bolder Boulder 10-K due to an injury. The race is scheduled for Monday, May 30 in Boulder, Colo. “She has a stress reaction in her left foot,” said her long- time agent, Ray Flynn, of Flynn Sports Management. “An MRI confirmed the result to her doctor over the weekend.” Kastor, 32, had planned to join Colleen De Reuck and Jen Rhines on the team. The Bolder organizers are now looking for a replacement for Kastor who was won the individual title at Boulder twice. [...]

Kastor, De Reuck, Rhines – 2002 Team Champions – Reunited  Boulder, CO – April 30, 2005: The 2005 BolderBOULDER Women’s Team USA has been assembled for the 8th International Team Challenge as part of the 27th BolderBOULDER on Memorial Day, May 30. The U.S. women are set to race against top teams from Mexico (defending team champion), Romania, Japan and Russia. All three of the women on Team USA are Olympians, all three were on the silver medal-winning U.S. 8K world cross- country team in 2002 and all three were members of the first Team USA to win the Challenge(2002): Deena [...]