Colorado Running News

On Patriots' Day, thirty-year-old Matt Dewald, a South Dakotan who now lives in Denver finished 20th overall at the Boston Marathon, running a 2:19:35. The former University of South Dakota runner was the ninth placed American to finish the race. Matt's career accomplishments include winning the Lincoln National Guard Marathon in 2009 and the Monumental Challenge Marathon back in 2007.

Matt currently works as a physical therapist at Mountain States Hand and Physical Therapy in Arvada. Thanks to Mizuno and Boulder Running Company, Matt will receive a free pair of Mizunos.

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Dylan Bowman recently left Aspen for the City by the Bay, San Francisco. After a breakout 2012, he's raced just once so far in 2013. That lone race was successful though as he won southern California's Ray Miller 50. He's now working back towards the Western States 100 in June and is less than two weeks out from the Miwok 100k. See what he had to say going into next weekend's race, about how a new crop of short-course guys are reshaping ultrarunning, and about his new job at Hypoxico.
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Track season rolls through Stanfurd this weekend. A long list of Colorado runners will race and the highlights appear to be Niwot High School's Elise Cranny in the 1500m, and the women's 10000m where Adrienne Herzog, Alisha Williams, Brianne Nelson, and Mattie Suver will all race.

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4/20 weekend brought violence to Denver and a ton of racing. Apart from the usual 5k action (where Tyler Scholl hit a sub-17 5k), Pat Rizzo raced the London Marathon, Michele Yates the Indiana Trail 100, and Mike Aish a local 50-miler. The weekend's over so pack your joints up for a year and catch up on the racing highlights below.
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“Where the world’s best athletes come to compete.” A full slate of Colorado runners were included in that group this weekend with runners from CU, CSU, Western, Adams, Metro, and Air Force all racing. Post-collegiates included Western alum Lauren Kleppin, Boulder Track Club's Laura Thweatt, and Olympic steeplechasers Billy Nelson and Shalaya Kipp, among others, but the Colorado performance of meet goes to Macklin Chaffee for his super-fast 3:42 1500m.
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Seemingly out of nowhere, Colorado Springs’ Chris Vargo has suddenly become one of the country’s top ultrarunners. In 2007, he was just 18th at the Tecumseh Trail Marathon (Indiana), won some low-key races in the years in between, and then was still only 17th at The North Face 50 last year. Now though Vargo has broken the course record at the Way Too Cool 50k (although finishing second) and was sixth with the big guns at last weekend’s Lake Sonoma 50. Read on to learn about Vargo’s rise and what he has planned for the rest of the year, and just for the ladies into runner's legs, take a peek at his calves.
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Last year's Cheyenne Mountain Trail Race 25K & 50K featured some fast runners. The 25K was won by Inov-8's Pete Maksimow in 1:46:05 and Michele Suszek in 1:58:22, the 25K had 124 finishers. The 50K was a tight contest between Ryan Burch and Jason Koop, with Burch taking the win in 3:57:35. On the women's side, Connilee Walter was victorious in the 50K, with a winning time of 5:12:58. The 50K had 69 finishers.

For more details about this year's race, read below.
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Michele (nee Suszek) Yates of Littleton is racing this weekend’s Indiana Trail 100. If she’s successful in breaking the U.S. 100-mile trail record, she’ll earn $25,000. See what the road-turned-trail runner had to say about her chances going into the big race.

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Colorado Race Timing has four stellar events to tell you about for this upcoming weekend. The Race for Open Space 5K is an inaugural race that will take place just outside Bluff Lake Nature Center in Stapleton. In Pueblo the 11th annual Spank Blasing 5K/10K will be run, racers get to finish in the Neta & Eddie DeRose ThunderBowl, an impressive stadium finish on the track. Out in Brighton the Step 4 Life race will be featuring a 5K & 10K.

Finally on Sunday, the South Suburban Recreation department will be hosting the Rockin' on the River 5K which will take place in Littleton at Hudson Gardens. Read below for more details, hope to see you there.
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