Colorado Running News

JMock has been rehired and you know what that means, less typos.

Spring arrived in Colorado and the racing season heated up locally with the Platte River Half Marathon and the Boulder Spring 5-miler, and further away with the Cherry Blossom 10-miler and St. Louis Half Marathon. All the excitement of the first weekend of April 2013 is highlighted below.
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Elvis Dumervil signed with the Ravens, Rocky announced his retirement, the Wichita State Shockers advanced to the Final Four and Kim Jon Un is getting a bit testy in North Korea. It was the final weekend of March, a month that proved to be uncharacteristically colder than usual.
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It's April and it is time to lace up your Brooks Beast and hit the races. Colorado Race Timing has four events to tell you about, the Heritage Adventure 5K/10K will take place on Saturday in Highlands Ranch, a great single track race. The Operation United 5K is a new race out at Central Park in Stapleton. The Miles for Hope 5K is back for another 5K at Sloan's Lake as well as the Aveda Earth Day 5K at Denver's Washington Park.

For more details, see below.
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Tear up those brackets, it's March Madness time and we saw #2 Georgetown lose to #15 Florida Gulf Coast and #9 Wichita State defeat the #1 Gonzaga Bull Dogs. We also witnessed Team USA defeating Team Costa Rica in a snowy futbol match played at Dick's Sporting Good Park. It is the fourth weekend of March, 2013, a weekend hit by a blizzard, making for some tough racing conditions for local racers.

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The Mizuno EVO Cursoris is the heavier shoe out of the two new zero drop shoes that Mizuno introduced back in January, with the Mizuno Evo Levitas being the more minimal of the two shoes. The shoe is named after one of the oldest bipedal creatures, the Eudibamus Cursoris, sort of a goody looking reptile.
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Why go with a 232 when a 230 is lighter? Here’s why!

My first idea of this shoe was that it was going to be exactly like the ƒ-lite 230’s…just 2 grams heavier, and who wants to haul around that extra 2 grams!? Not my skinny ass!

When I received the ƒ-lite 232, I was pleasantly surprised at a number of tweaks and changes made compared to the traditional ƒ-lite models.
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Admittedly, I could only find three, and none of them are as good as say, the Canadian World Cross Country team video, but here we go.
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Fresh off the newswire, Kenyan marathoner Jynocel Basweti was suspended by that country's athletics governing body for a failed drug test. Basweti won the 2008 Denver Marathon as a 22-year-old in 2:22:16. A year later he finished second, 53 seconds behind race winner Chris Siemers. Although the article says "Basweti’s 26.2-mile low is 2:26 and last year she won races in Germany and Finland," Basweti is in fact a man. Just not as fast as you'd expect a male doper to be.
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Last year when Running Guru linked up The M1le on their Facebook page and hyped the $1,000,000 prize for a new world record, I commented right away, "I'll bet you $1,000,000 that the $75,000 cash prize purse isn't paid out." Some six months later, The M1le still hasn't hit the streets of Denver. I'm not going to say "I told ya so," but did some Googling for an update and here's what I found.
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