Regional News

Makena Morley, a former CU Buff runner, powered away from the women’s field to win her first USATF title, while Abbabiya Simbassa outkicked the men’s field to increase his USATF Running Circuit standings lead at the USATF 25 km Championships presented by Toyota.
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Colorado's best high school cross country runners lined up to compete at the state meet on Saturday. In 5A, Riley Stewart, a Cherry Creek senior, won the individual title yet again, notching a three-peat in her high school finale. The Stanford-bound runner won in 17 minutes, 20.9 seconds.
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Benjamin Hanson has been in Fort Collins for only about a year now, and he hadn’t spent much time in the Poudre Canyon before.
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A project of the Downtown Denver Partnership (DDP), the 5280 Trail is a 5.280 mile trail that, once complete, will encircle downtown Denver, connecting neighborhoods and landmarks. When the design process for the trail began in 2019, it drew comparisons to New York City’s High Line. In an interview with Rocky Mountain PBS last month, officials with the DDP said the project that most inspired them was the Cultural Trail in Indianapolis.
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Denver's largest running event was cancelled in 2020 and the postponed from it's normal May date to the fall of 2021. With it's return, thousands of runners came out to City Park for the event that includes a marathon, marathon relay, half marathon and 10 mile.
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When snowflakes started falling a few miles into a 50-mile ultramarathon through the Utah mountains, Annie Macdonald was not worried. As an experienced long-distance runner, she had expected some snow. But then the stray flakes turned into a near whiteout, lashing participants of the DC Peaks 50 race with winds of up to 40 miles per hour.
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Nell Rojas from Boulder was the top American finisher at the Boston Marathon, placing sixth overall in a personal best 2 hours, 27 minutes, 12 seconds. It was her fourth marathon.
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In Xenia, Ohio, Marianne Martino (High Altitude Racewalk Team), broke the existing masters 70-74 10,000m race walk American record (pending verification).
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On Saturday, September 25, the Boulder brother and sister duo of Daniel King, 62, and Laura Bruess, 60, each broke three existing U.S. masters track records (pending verification) in Lynn, Massachusetts.
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Two Colorado runners won at the Broken Arrow Skyrace on Sunday, October 3, a three-day event held at the Palisades Tahoe resort in Olympic Valley, California. Joseph Gray, 37, Colorado Springs, and Janelle Lincks, 28, Thornton won the event.
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