Colorado Runner

The Greenland Trail 50k, 25k and 8M will be held tomorrow, May 7 under sunny skies and on clear trails overlooking Pikes Peak. The soft dirt course is run on rolling hills in the Greenland Open Space and is the 2011 50k RRCA Championship Race. Chip timing has been added for this year’s event. The male champions in last years 25k and 50k are returning for the 2011 edition, and well-known trail runner Susan Nuzum is planning to run the 8M event. Last year’s winners: 50k Jared Scott, 3:52:15, Gayle Zorrilla, 4:28:25 25k Jason Schlarb, 1:36:15 (Course Record), Lindsay Krause [...]

Below are photos from the Pikes Peak Ascent and Marathon in Manitou Springs.

World runners rule mountain Italian man, French woman win  Pikes Peak may be America’s mountain, but the Pikes Peak Marathon has gone global.   For the first time in the race’s 50-year history, international runners won the men’s and women’s marathons, both beating Colorado residents to do it Sunday.   Italy’s Fulvio Dapit, 29 (left, photo by Jerilee Bennett), kept Boulder’s Galen Burrell at bay in the race’s final hundred yards to win the marathon in 3 hours, 58 minutes and 49 seconds. Burrell, 26, the 2004 champion, was second in 3:59:01, while Marco Rusconi of Italy was third in 3:59:54 [...]

19-year-old sets record for age group as he wins overall title  In winning the Pikes Peak Ascent on Saturday, Ryan Hafer (left, photo by Christian Murdock) managed to make history, break a record and settle a score.   At 19, Hafer became the youngest male winner of the Ascent, the 13.32-mile running race up Barr Trail to the summit of Pikes Peak.   Hafer, a Colorado Springs resident about to enter his sophomore year at Harvard University, topped a field of about 1,800 to become the first teenager to win. He finished in 2 hours, 21 minutes and 30 seconds, well [...]

Dry air at the Barr Trail Mountain Race made Matt Carpenter‘s throat feel like sand paper Sunday morning, but the founder of the sixth annual race wasn’t about to let that stop him.   The Manitou Springs resident plowed through six miles and 3,630 feet in elevation before turning around at Barr Camp — 10,200 feet in elevation — with a 2-minute lead over Simon Gutierrez.   The deep breaths from Gutierrez had long grown silent when Carpenter completed the 12-mile run in 1:31:14 for his second straight win in the event and fourth overall.   Gutierrez placed second in [...]