DOUBLE 5K:  Photo Gallery 1 ** Gallery 2 ** Video, Start of race No. 2

BOLD MOM WENDY THOMAS: How a mother of two went from Bolder Boulder citizen race runner to Team Colorado elite - in three years >>>

TAKIN' IT TO THE PEAK: Triple Crown crew checks out Pikes Peak Road Ascent 10K course. The verdict: It's tough.

JACK QUINN'S PHOTOS: 190 new runners on Tuesday ** Gallery 2

STARLIGHT SPECTACULAR: New 10:30 p.m. start time for the popular bike ride

RUN TO THE SHRINE: Results here  ** Photos 
Gallery 1 **
 Gallery 2 ** Video 
Start of the 10K **
Tommy Manning and Pete Maksimow take the lead **
Start of the 5 K.

WOMEN'S DISTANCE FESTIVAL: Results here ** Photo Gallery

GARDEN PARTY:
Runner's World Magazine's Bart Yasso will speak at first Garden of the Gods 10 Mile Run Expo

NEW KID IN TOWN:
Fernando Riveros brings some hot wheels to Bandwagon Racing


MEET THE TEAM!:
The 2012 PikesPeakSports.us Triple Crown Runners

BIKES AND COFFEE:
The story behind Chris Witt's Cafe Velo

ASCENT CYCLING:
Patrick Cross talks racing, riding and community



ON THE BIG SCREEN:
"Reveal the Path" coming to Colorado Springs June 7

Growing up in New Orleans, Richard Taxman carried the ball on his high school football team. He wrestled and won a state championship, and he had great wheels as a sprinter on the track. Taxman loved to lift weights - and won a national weight lifting championship. He was tough ... a nice person, but a rugged, bullet-proof athlete. Or he thought he was, at least until the day he attempted to chase down a couple of ornery kids in Colorado Springs.
"I was waiting to play handball at the Y, and these two kids picked up my handball gloves and ball and took off," Taxman said. "I started running after them and ran until I was so out of breath I couldn't go any farther. I told myself, 'no more handball, I'm going to start running.'" Taxman has been named the Runners Roost Runner of the Month. He wins a new pair of of Mizuno shoes, and plenty of bragging rights. The Runner of the Month program is a combined effort of Runners Roost, Mizuno Shoes and PikesPeakSports.us. Read the story here.

One of the most famous running advocates in the country, Bart Yasso, the “Chief Running Officer” at Runner’s World Magazine, will speak at the first Garden of the Gods 10 Mile Run Expo on Saturday, June 9, at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. Yasso is a big fan of the Garden of the Gods run. In his book “My Life on the Run” Yasso writes that the Garden of the Gods 10-miler is his favorite race in the United States. He plans to run in it this year. Read the story here!

A mountain biking superstar just dropped into Colorado Springs from Colombia. Hector Fernando Riveros Paez – he likes to be called Fernando – rides on the Colombian national MTB team, is a former Colombian national champion, and a top ten finisher in the Pan American Games. He now rides on Doug Johnson's Bandwagon Racing team. So what’s he doing in Colorado Springs? He fell in love. Read the story here.

To look at Chris Witt, a relaxed man enjoying his espresso in a tie-dye shirt on a weekday, you’d never guess that it was only a short time ago he was a hard charging senior manager leading a $50 million electronics division. “I flew 100,000 miles a year for 11 years straight to meet with customers in China, Berlin, or someplace else,” Witt said. “I was everywhere else and my kids were growing up here and I was missing it.” So Witt took a break, spent some quality time with his family and made his plans to launch Cafe Velo, mixing bikes and coffee in a way that has Colorado Springs cyclists buzzing. Read the story here.

With the Ascent Cycling Mountain Bike Series only a month away, we thought it would be good to catch up with the guys at one of the coolest bike shops in town. Patrick Cross, who with business partner Clay Allison owns Ascent Cycling, took some time to answer a few questions. Read the story here!



His face was crusted with dust and sweat. He'd been beaten by the wind and sun. Beneath it all, Pete Maksimow wore a smile. When he crossed the finish line at Saturday's Greenland Trail 50K, Maksimow shed some doubts and gained a course record. "I was really working it on that last lap," Maksimow said. "I was trying to get my legs moving." Suffice it to say, his legs moved plenty fast. Maksimow, 33, of Manitou Springs, hit the finsh line in 3:22:09, eclipsing the overall mark (3:23:11) set by Justin Ricks in 2008.
It was Maksimow's second-consecutive win in the Greenland 50K. He narrowly missed the record in 2011. Story and results!

Mention the Garden of the Gods to any runner and they’ll probably tell you about the beautiful sunrise on towering red rock formations. They’ll talk about the famous Garden of the Gods 10 Mile Run, the camaraderie of a special event, fun aid stations and fantastic views of Pikes Peak. And then they’ll pause, get a little serious, and admit that 10 miles in the Garden of the Gods is tough. It’s doable by any reasonably fit runner, but tough. With that in mind, organizers of the Triple Crown of Running have added a new race, the Garden of the Gods 5K.Link for race registration and more here!