Running Legends: Ellen Hart

Ellen Hart remains one of Colorado’s greatest runners and is currently a world championship masters triathlete. She was born in 1958 in New York City and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico as the second of eight siblings. She attended the Albuquerque Academy, where she excelled in a variety of sports…

Marathoners, Take Your Marks … and Fluid and Salt!

Legend states that after the Greek army defeated the invading Persian forces near the city of Marathon in 490 B.C.E., the courier Pheidippides ran to Athens to report the victory and then immediately dropped dead. The story inspired the modern marathon, a grueling 26.2-mile contest that attracts…