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You may recognize Paige Siemers better by her maiden name: Paige Higgins.  Paige, a recent newlywed to fellow top runner Chris Siemers, was happily married on August 31, 2013, and thus has a name that others will have to get used to seeing on the top of the results pages across Colorado, and the country.

The Adams State University Men's Cross Country team repeated their performance from a year ago and earned the 2013 NCAA Division II National Championship.

Brothers Tim and Tommy Thwaites have been brewing coffee for almost two decades.  The co-founders of Denver-based Coda Coffee saw their hard work pay off this year as the company won the highest honor in the coffee industry: Roasters of the Year.

Almost 4,000 runners and walkers took to the course to support the Fetal Hope Foundation - more than any in the race's history.  From top Colorado runners to families and kids with sweet tooth's, Sunday's race was success on several different levels.

The fifth annual Home for the Holidays 5K was a huge success Saturday morning as record numbers of participants and spectators alike came out to City Park to raise awareness and funds for the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless.

An 11-member skydiving team carried a  7,800 square foot American flag high above the Start Line of the 38th Marine Corps Marathon. Shortly afterwards, a 105mm Howitzer M2A1 fired the celebratory salute to signify the beginning of the race and over 31,000 runners began their run.

This past August I raced in the Pikes Peak Ascent (PPA) for the second time.  The experiences between last year and this year were very different including the amount of training I was able to complete.  I obtained a personal best time by 12 minutes but not because I trained more.

The floods that tragically struck much of Colorado were no match for the good karma of our resident Pooka, Harvey – Friday the 13th or not - as running conditions for the 7th Run, Rabbit, Run 50 Mile Run (and 2nd Run, Rabbit, Run 100 Mile Run) were perfect – cool temperatures during the day, a pleasant evening and night, trails that seemed hardly affected by the rains that had drenched beautiful Steamboat Springs for most of the prior week.  Yeah, race day there was a little of everything – sun, clouds, a bit of rain, a bit of mud, even a light dusting of snow way on high up in the mountains, elk, deer, moose and bear, but for runners, conditions were near perfect.

The 2013 U.S. Mountain Running Team competed at the 29th World Mountain Running Championships on Sunday, September 8, in Krynica - Zdrój, Poland, with four individual top-ten performances, and no team finish below fifth place.