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Whoa, the adventure factor is high on this one! Former NCAA Division II All-American Kylee Schuler has traded the track for the trails, and now living in Carbondale, she tells us about one of her favorites. Thanks again to Colorado-based VFuel for sponsoring this month's installment.

The 9th Annual Run the Rocks 5K attracted over a thousand participants to Red Rocks Park and Amphitheater on a sunny, warm and windy Sunday morning.  The event is hosted by the American Lung Association which raises funds to help make a positive impact in the lives of those affected by lung disease.  This year's event has raised over $55,000 and is still accepting donations.

Leadville’s Timmy Parr is the U.S. Skyrunner Series 2015 “Sky” division champion. That’s hardly all that’s he done though, and it’s this body of work – 21 races this year – that make him our September “The Runner Box” Colorado Runner of the Month.

40 miles and a 17,000 feet of elevation gain (!), the Elk Park/Needleton loop through the Weminuche Wilderness in Colorado's San Juan Mountains is Jeff Valliere's favorite Colorado trail. Well known for his uphill running and climbing, Valliere, of Louisville, tells us all about this bucket list hike/run in the first installment of the VFuel Colorado Trail of the Month. 

The goal in Pack Burro Racing is to win the Triple Crown, races in Fairplay, Buena Vista and Leadville. George Zack and his racing companion, Jack, had come close in 2012 and 2014, winning two out of the three races. But this year, Jack sprang to life at key moments and they dashed to victory in all three events. George is a 46-year-old MUT runner from Broomfield, longtime Pikes Peak runner and friend of many in the Colorado Springs area. Jack, 18, or thereabouts, spends most of his days nibbling grass on the Laughing Valley Ranch near Idaho Springs.

Rudy Project, creators of breakthrough performance sunglasses since 1985, has redefined cutting edge eyewear technology with the latest edition to the 2016 collection: the Tralyx™ and Tralyx SX. This powerfully simple and dynamic design platform takes Rudy Project a step forward into the future, while building upon 30 years of technical innovation in the performance eyewear industry.

Andy Wacker has been racing all over the world this summer. He finished August with a win at the USATF trail 50k championship in San Francisco, and because of it is our August "The Runner Box" runner of the month.  In this interview, the Boulder runner tells us all about his racing, training with marmots, and what's kept him in Boulder.

Who was that second-place guy at last weekend's Leadville 100?  Get to know Denver's Kyle Pietari in this interview and learn how he trained and raced so well.  Pietari's 18:16 placed him second overall in the "Race Across the Sky."

Anna Frost and Missy Gosney finished Nolan's 14, a linkup of 14 14,000-foot peaks in Colorado, under the 60-hour cutoff. They are the first women to have completed all 14 summits of Nolan's, and only the 12th and 13th individuals to have done so in the run's history.

Alex Nichols was running third, often unable to see the leaders, and starting to feel just a little desperate about his chance to win Sunday’s 60th running of the Pikes Peak Marathon. It’s a victory he’d dreamed about for at least three years – since finishing second in 2012 and again in ’13 – and it seemed to be slipping away.