Tag: trail running
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Results from the 2025 Pikes Peak Marathon
Top finishers in the men’s and women’s divisions from the 2025 Pikes Peak Marathon. Male 1. Jonathan Aziz, 3:54:07 2. Mitch Klomp, 4:14:20 3. Bayden Menton, 4:15:05 4. Dean Abel, 4:16:02 5. Ryan Sederquist, 4:18:24 6. Canaan Vallejos, 4:28:06 7. Ezra Merrill-Triplett, 4:29:27 8. Michael Mitchell, 4:32:03 9. Ben Sweatman, 4:34:40 10. Kyle Lund, 4:36:20…
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New father Jonathan Aziz runs to fourth consecutive victory at Pikes Peak Marathon
Jonathan Aziz is literally a rocket scientist, using his Ph.D. in aerospace engineering to help governments with their space missions. But he’s still working his way through this latest puzzling equation. So far, so good, as that 12-week-old variable named Roslyn awaited him at the finish line of the Pikes Peak Marathon, where the new…
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New father Jonathan Aziz runs to fourth consecutive victory at Pikes Peak Marathon
Jonathan Aziz is literally a rocket scientist, using his Ph.D. in aerospace engineering to help governments with their space missions. But he’s still working his way through this latest puzzling equation. So far, so good, as that 12-week-old variable named Roslyn awaited him at the finish line of the Pikes Peak Marathon, where the new…
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New father Jonathan Aziz runs to fourth consecutive victory at Pikes Peak Marathon
Jonathan Aziz is literally a rocket scientist, using his Ph.D. in aerospace engineering to help governments with their space missions. But he’s still working his way through this latest puzzling equation. So far, so good, as that 12-week-old variable named Roslyn awaited him at the finish line of the Pikes Peak Marathon, where the new…
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‘Years before its time’: Pikes Peak Marathon turns 70
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Ron Ilgen does not call the Pikes Peak Marathon a bucket list event. “I guess I coined the phrase of a ‘death bed event,’” he said. “Where one day you’re laying there and thinking, What…
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Colorado Springs ER doctor keeps 100-mile record in perspective
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save One Monday last month, hardly recovered from running 100 miles in the mountains around Leadville, Anne Flower was back to work as an emergency room doctor at Memorial Hospital Central in Colorado Springs. “I was…
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Trails grow around lakeside destination in Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Trails continue to grow around an increasingly popular destination in Colorado. Frisco Peninsula Recreation Area makes up the forested, rolling landform bordering the Summit County town and Dillon Reservoir. Rangers know local regulars by name, “and have found this summer more users coming up from…
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‘A real treasure:’ Leadville 100’s prize belt buckles made at small shop in Denver
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save DENVER • Every now and then a former runner or cyclist reflecting on past glory will find the corner of this industrial zone, locating the correct door tucked in the back of this brick complex. One walks into the small shop with a distinct, silver…
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50 years of Pikes Peak Road Runners: Classic races, quirks and camaraderie
Raymond Bailey was done with alcohol, but addiction wasn’t done with him. “I started running to feed the addiction I still had, but in a more healthy way,” he says. He started running with a group of strangers, members of the Pikes Peak Road Runners who met at 6 a.m. every Tuesday and Thursday at…
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Happy Trails: Appreciating the new and old at Monument Valley Park
Monument Valley Park loop In a hidden pocket of Monument Valley Park, tucked against a hillside away from this greenway at the edge of downtown Colorado Springs, a colorful wall of rock rises. This is the Geologic Column proclaimed upon the park’s opening in 1907 — lines of granite, sandstone and limestone spanning time and…