Months shy of his 100th birthday, Bill Weber crossed the Bolder Boulder finish line in triumph Monday.
Weber, a University of Colorado professor emeritus, ran the first Bolder Boulder decades ago, as well as races prior and after. This week, he decided he’d return for the 40th Bolder Boulder.
“I just got a bee in my bonnet,” Weber said with a laugh.
So Weber met his granddaughter, Heidi Alina, and three of his great granddaughters at the intersection of Folsom and Walnut streets, and he pushed his walker the final stretch of the course down Folsom and up the hill into CU’s Folsom Field.
Weber hung an orange poster from his walker that read, “100 years young, still going strong.” He paused often to grin for photos, bow to admirers and, occasionally, sit and catch his breath before pushing onward toward the stadium.
“It was great,” he said of his abbreviated Bolder Boulder. “It was wonderful to do this.”
Weber was one of more than 49,000 people who registered to loop through Boulder and pour into the university’s football stadium for the 40th running of the city’s iconic 10K race. There, citizen racers and spectators gathered to watch the professionals speed through the course.
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