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Runners lined up for the Lead King Loop 25K and Quarry Hill Climb 12.5K on a beautiful Sunday morning in Marble, CO.  For the second year in a row, the Lead King Loop hosted the USATF Colorado 25K Championship race.

Lying under Steve Parker’s calm and collected nature is a relentless competitive spirit.  No matter the playing field – race, training run or golf game – Parker’s drive to hunt […]

While Charles Hillig, Jr. doesn't run with an affiliation on his shirt, his lack of sponsorship doesn't stop him from competing, and winning against the top sponsored athletes in Colorado and around the country.

A crowd gathered as Lance Armstrong chugged toward the finish line of Sunday's Steamboat Stinger trail marathon at the base of Howelsen Hill.

With a rising sun, plush evergreen trees and a gorgeous mountain vista, runners took off from Evergreen, CO for the 34th Annual Evergreen Town Race.  The event hosted two race distances: a 5K and 10K.  The 10K served, for the second year in a row, as the USATF Colorado 10K Championship.  Both races wind down Upper Bear Creek on a blazing fast downhill course, finishing up near Evergreen Lake.  As one of the most scenic and fastest races in Colorado, the scene was set for an amazing race.

True Colorado native Jeremy Freed has had a love for running since he watched his Dad running out the front door as a young child.  Growing up in the beautiful city of Evergreen, CO, Jeremy was deeply rooted in the running community at a young age.

Young speedsters took top honors in the LaSportiva Vail Half Marathon on July 22. 25-year-old Brian Folts from Arizona led all runners to the top of Vail Mountain, running the course in 1:41:56, nearly four minutes faster than runner-up Andy Ames of Boulder (1:45:51). Bernie Boettcher of Silt finished third in 1:47:04.

With the best race day weather conditions in years, almost 600 competitors started up Dutch Henri Hill Sunday morning for the Leadville Silver Rush 50 Mile.

Kim Dobson is hands-down one of the top mountain runners in Colorado.  She recently ran the second fastest time in race history at both the Mount Washington Road Race in 2012, and the Pikes Peak Ascent in 2011.  Both wins are simply additional notches in this Colorado native's belt of top race finishes.