Getting hurt is a part of being an athlete. In fact, professional athletes belong to the top five occupations that experience more than a thousand injures for every 10,000 workers.
Boulder’s Ryan Smith won the Leadville 100 trail run Saturday night thanks to consistent second-half pacing that left his rivals unable to respond. It was the biggest win of his ultrarunning career.
With only one more rocky switchback to go on Saturday, Allie McLaughlin looked up. There was nothing more to see than the finish line banner, a giant blue sky and a cheering crowd. She threw one last surge into her tired legs and won the…
Two years is a long time to stew over a bad race. But that’s how long Sage Canaday had been waiting to redeem himself for what he called a poor debut performance at the Pikes Peak Ascent in 2012, when he finished a distant fourth in a time…