Join We Keep Running this spring and summer – pick a distance (486 miles, 272 miles, or 100 miles) and compete with your friends! Win prizes, collect bibs and medallions, and support local businesses, charities, and artists! All partners are welcome, including other race producers – just reach out. We want this to be the best thing for the Colorado running community!
10% of your registration and all of your donations go to Food Bank of the Rockies® and trail non-profits. ($1 of each reg to the trail non-profit that supports your course, the rest to FBR).
Here’s How It Works
- Sign up for your preferred distance (you can compete both as an individual and as a team!). Long and Short Course also gets you entered into the mini-challenges throughout.
- Log your miles, vert, and time on our platform – get tracked on our map and leader boards. (You’ll get an email before the challenge starts on how this works).
- Compete simultaneously in the main and mini-challenges for prizes and swag.
- Obey ALL closures, restrictions, and safety necessary. Take this challenge virtually unless/until it is deemed safe to do so.
Schedule
- May 25th-31st : Our first Mini-Challenge – “The Warmup: Mt. Bierstadt” – test out our results platform and compete for gift certs! Points will be given for distance/time, but also a few “appropriate” categories and challenges.
- Note: Road/Trailhead to Bierstadt is currently closed – please research, respect this and enjoy this challenge safely and virtually as appropriate.
- June 15th – Colorado Trail Competition Starts (Individual and 2- /4- Person Team) – 5.4 miles / day solo, 2.7 / or 1.4 / as a team.
- 486 miles, 89k feet west to east
- Individuals can also pool miles to compete as a team If you don’t have a team find one on our Facebook group!
- July 15th – Front Range Competition Starts (Individual and 2- /4- Person Team) – 4.4 miles / day solo, 2.2 or 1.1 as a team.
- Course runs from Laramie WY to the Royal Gorge Bridge west of Cañon City,
- Stopping through several towns and by the finish line of the BolderBoulder 10k.
- 272 Miles, 12.5k feet
- Individuals can also compete as a team If you don’t have a team find one on our Facebook group!
- August 15th-ish Nolan’s 14 Challenge
- 1 month challenge to cover the 100 miles and/or 44k feet vert of the famous challenge (normally under 60 hours!)
- Covering the 14 closest 14ers in the Sawatch Range
- Individuals can compete as a team here too!
- September 15th – Cutoff, probably… but no worries we won’t kick you off the trail.
The Routes
Each segment gives you its own taste of Colorado, and we’ll be filling in with challenges (spurs) that fall off of these main courses. We’ll be fleshing out with content, photos, links, and promotions along the way that plug the sections of the course you run along!
The Colorado Trail (Long Course, 486 miles, 89k feet)
The Front Range (Short Course, 273 miles, 12.5K Feet)
This specially built course travels from Laramie WY to the Royal Gorge Bridge and passes through the main street of many of the great Front Range towns, stopping by the finish line of the BolderBoulder 10K!
Nolan’s 14 – (We’re calling it 100 miles, 44K feet)
If you know what this is, I don’t have to explain it to you. Choose your own route on the classic challenge covering the 14 closest 14ers in the Sawatch Range. The challenge calls for 60 hours, but we’re giving you 2 weeks. So if you’re like me, just camp out at Twin Lakes and pick ’em off 1 or 2 at a time :)
