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With a comfortable lead and the Pikes Peak Marathon women’s race record in sight, Swiss runner Maude Mathys made the famous turn on the mountain’s 14,115-foot summit on Sunday. Keep it together, and she would make race history. And then she crashed on the rocks. And that is mountain running. One…

Joe Gray and Kim Dobson returned to familiar territory on Saturday, winning the men’s and women’s races in the 64th Pikes Peak Ascent.

Getting hurt is a part of being an athlete. In fact, professional athletes belong to the top five occupations that experience more than a thousand injures for every 10,000 workers.