Colorado Running News

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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Jason Hartmann led the charge for the Americans and Coloradans with his second consecutive fourth place Boston Marathon finish, in 2:12:12. Forty two year old Romanian Nuta Olaru who now calls Longmont home, was the first Colorado female with a 2:42:57, good enough for 23rd place overall for the women.

To crack the top 25 times from Colorado, the men had to break 2:49:10. Looking at last year's Denver Marathon, 25th place was 2:58:56. On the women's side, 25 Colorado women ran under 3:17:53, 25th at last year's Denver Marathon was a 3:32:38. The Colorado competition is tougher in Boston than in Denver.
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Boston's tomorrow, but that's just a small piece of another busy weekend of racing on the track, the trails, and on the roads of Colorado and elsewhere. Check out this weekend's results and celebrate the outstanding performances. ...

Late March may not really be the time of year that you would expect someone to comfortably notch an A-standard to the World Track and Field Championships. But at the recent Stanford Invitational three weeks ago, Ali Williams did just that as she blew the field away with a 65 second final quarter to etch a current ...

Last year Mesa, Colorado's Glenn Randall rocketed to the front of the Boston Marathon and enjoyed 31:02 of fame as he led the Boston Marathon. His opening 10k split would indicate a 2:11 finish assuming even pacing. Randall ultimately drifted to a 2:37 finish that was good for 61st overall, but his notoriety had been etched in Boston Marathon and LetsRun lore. The term "Pull a Glenn Randall" gained recognition from runners everywhere. It's unlikely that Randall, now a more experienced marathoner, will again pull a GR, but in celebration of last year's race that left Colorado viewers glued to their TV sets for the first 10k, we'll award a case of PowerBars to the person who most accurately predicts Randall's 10k split at this year's race.
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Rachel Viele of Vail, snags the honor of being the Mizuno/Boulder Running Company/RunColo runner of the month, for her second place finish at the Platte Half Marathon on April 7th. Rachel has been racing in Colorado for the last twelve years, sticking primarily to half marathons, marathons, trail races and snowshoe racing. To learn more about Rachel, check out the killer interview we did with her.
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Boulder's Cameron Clayton, a Monarch High School and University of Colorado alum, is quickly moving up the ultrarunning ranks. Just 24 years of age, this weekend's Lake Sonoma 50 will be his third ultra, following the Run Rabbit Run 50 in Steamboat (1st, course record) and The North Face 50 in San Francisco (3rd). Lake Sonoma is absolutely loaded and Clayton will be challenging some of the world's best. See what he had to say about that race and ultrarunning below.
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One of the newest additions to the Boulder Running Company/adidas team is James Strang and he is already one of their top runners. At the USA Cross Country Championships in St. Louis, James led the BRC/adidas team with his 9th place overall finish. Most recently he headed to Poland to race for Team USA in the World Cross Country Championships, where he placed 37th overall.

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Our favorite race has been postponed for the second time, or is this the third time? The Denver M1LE made an announcement on their Facebook page today, that the race will be moved to the fall.

What is going on with these guys?
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