The Pikes Peak Marathon was a win for parents with an assist to their partners Sunday.
After Seth DeMoor won the men’s marathon for a second straight year in 3 hours, 36 minutes and 33 seconds, the Englewood resident scooped up his four sons and kissed his wife, Brigid.
“She does the hard work,” DeMoor said. “I just get out and have fun in the mountains. Shout out to Brigid. Love you.”
Stevie Kremer, a Colorado College graduate who’s a middle school counselor in Crested Butte, capped a triumphant return to Pikes Peak nearly an hour later, winning the women’s race in 4:34:47. After finishing, her young son got a big hug and her partner a shoutout.
“I have an awesome partner who lets me wake up early in the morning and I go for a run,” Kremer said. “He watches my kid, and I have a treadmill in my house. It works, and I love my kid, so I wouldn’t have it any other way.”
After a 2:06:44 ascent, DeMoor, 36, held off a top 10 made up of eight 20-somethings on the way down.
Allie McLaughlin, the winner of Saturday’s Ascent, capped a successful weekend on her hometown mountain with a second-place finish in 4:38:06, less than four minutes behind a runner she’s looked up to since she got into trail running.
Read the whole story at the Colorado Springs Gazette.