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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 >>>
JACK QUINN'S PHOTOS: Two more run for 100th time ** Jack Quinn's run, Gallery 2
MEET THE TEAM!: The 2012 PikesPeakSports.us Triple Crown Runners
4 FOR MOM: Area's moms run for TESSA
KNIGHTS' 5K CHALLENGE: Photos -
Gallery 1 **
Gallery 2 ** VIDEO -
Race start **
Interview Nancy Hobbs ** Interview with Ken and Christie Foster
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!
As the 2012 summer season kicks off for local nonprofit, Mile…Continue
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Started by Tim Bergsten in General Outdoors May 11.
Sharon Anne Greenbaum posted a blog post
Jeff Gallup commented on Katie Schwing's blog post My Brief Brush with Greatness
Katie Schwing posted a blog post
Katie Schwing commented on Don Solberg's blog post My Perfect Training Plan
As one of the more veteran members of the PikesPeakSports.us TripleCrown Runner team members, I am honored to share perspectives that an older runner/ racer might have after over 34 years experience in this community as well as overseas.
Maybe it was a mid-life crisis thing (I turn 50 this year) or because I hate cluttler, or perhaps it was because I spent most of last year wondering if I'd ever run again and I needed some closure. It was…
ContinuePosted by Sharon Anne Greenbaum on May 17, 2012 at 5:00pm
For the record: I'm not a fast runner. I'm a solid middle-of-the-packer who sometimes makes it into the top third in my age group. Part of that is the remarkable running community in this town. You people are talented, and more ambitious runners keep arriving all the time. (Take my friend Scott Spillman, who moved to…
Posted by Katie Schwing on May 17, 2012 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment
Posted by Jeff Gallup on May 17, 2012 at 10:49am
Hello everyone! First I would like to thank Tim Bergsten, Ron Ilgin and Mike Mazzola for letting be apart of the PikesPeakSports.us Triple Crown Running Team. Should be a fun…
ContinuePosted by Don Solberg on May 17, 2012 at 10:30am — 1 Comment
December 15, 2011 at 5:30pm to December 13, 2012 at 5:30pm – 2415 West Colorado Ave. (Thunder and Buttons)
May 18, 2012 from 6pm to 7:30pm – Cafe Velo
May 19, 2012 from 11am to 2pm – MotionX Studio
May 24, 2012 from 6pm to 7pm – Cafe Velo
May 31, 2012 from 6pm to 7pm – Cafe Velo
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