Athlete Profiles

The motivation to run can come from a host of different places.  Most runners have fitness goals and race PR's on their minds, while others have very different, and much more personal reasons.
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Justin Ricks, of Colorado Springs, is a life-long runner and our March Runner Box Colorado Runner of the Month.  A former high school star and a 2:22 marathoner, he won the recent Salida "Run Through Time" Marathon against a field that included four past champions.
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Best known as a road runner with sub-15 5k and sub-4 1500m bests, Matt Kempton turned to trails last year and won four races in the Vail Trail Running Series. This year he advanced to the more competitive La Sportiva Mountain Cup and finished second in the Cup’s first race. Kempton answered a few questions ahead of the second Cup race this weekend.
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Who can forget the drama of last year's Boulder Marathon cancellation?  The lack of permits, and lack of refunds, filled the web with news for a good two weeks.  Gone is that race and management team and in its place are two marathons expected to happen at the Rez this year.  We talked with the race director of the October 4 Boulder Rez Marathon to learn their plans for this year's race.
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Golden's Brianne Nelson has impressively grown to be one of the country's top road runners.  She's had a busy 2015 and we caught up with her following a big PR at the half marathon, a disappointing race at the U.S. cross country championships, and just ahead of the LA Marathon.  Nelson talks about all of it below.
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Over the last couple of years, runner Sage Canaday has gone from training for road marathons with the elite Hansons-Brooks Distance Project team to dominating the ultra and mountain trail running scene. After winning and setting course records at Speed Goat 50K (2013 and 2014) in Utah, Tarawera 100K (2013 and 2014) in New Zealand, Mt. Washington Hill Climb (2012) in New Hampshire, Pikes Peak Ascent (2014) in Colorado, and other races Sage has set his sights on qualifying for the 2016 Olympic Marathon Trials. On top of that, Sage will be running the famed Comrades Marathon in South Africa at the end of May as well as the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc in the Alpes in late August.
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The Runner Box and Colorado Runner Mag have partnered to celebrate Colorado’s outstanding runners. Each month The Runner Box will award one of its jam-packed boxes of runner goodies to a runner that we select. Our first winner was Laura Thweatt, who won the U.S. cross country championships in February, and will lead the American women’s team into worlds next month in China.
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When it comes to running, Joe Gray is a Jack of all Trades.  Whether it be a challenging mountain race, competitive cross country meet, or long distance road race, Gray is dominant and successful across each discipline.
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I first met Gavin McKenzie last August up in Leadville, Colorado. It was a few days before the Leadville Trail 100 MTB and the town was packed with athletes. I was meeting my friend Kendrick Callaway for a long weekend of running in the Sawatch Mountains on the famed Nolan’s 14 course. Kendrick had arranged to borrow a couple running packs from Gavin, and we were going to meet him at City on a Hill Coffee where he worked to pick them up.
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