Athlete Profiles

There's a new face in the ultrarunning scene, and she certainly is a force to be reckoned with. Many are wondering who the slim speedster is flying by, with her blonde pigtails bouncing underneath a backwards trucker hat.  Ashley Erba has…

Alex Nichols has been running on the Skyrunning World Circuit for a couple years now, and along with consistently placing well, he has been a dominant runner on the local trail racing scene around Colorado. In 2013 Nichols finished third…

It wasn't long ago that Coronado High School graduate (Colorado Springs) Hannah Green won the Sailin' Shoes 10K in downtown Colorado Springs. But she has made some backcountry discoveries about herself during the past few years, and last…

Joe Gray has been racing a lot!  I counted at least six races in a four week span last month.  Included in that stretch was a first-place, new American record run at New Hampshire's steep (!) Mount Washington Road Race.  Gray, a perennial…

Highlands Ranch runner Dave Bell just completed his 400th marathon at the Steamboat Marathon last weekend, making him the Colorado state record holder for the most lifetime marathons. Dave has completed five circuits of all 50 states and…

On Memorial Day, Alamosa's Brittni Hutton won the BolderBoulder 10k citizen's race, in a time that would've ranked very well in the professional, elite race.  Brittni answers a few questions about that race, Alamosa, and is our May "The…

Zach Miller rocketed to the top of ultrarunning last year, and left a cruise ship for a home base in Colorado Springs. Almost immediately after finishing fifth at the world class Transvulcania ultra last weekend, he announced on his blog…

Race in Colorado often enough and you're bound to soon find Andy Rinne towards the front. The Colorado Springs runner has already race eight times this year, winning three times and finishing on the podium five times. The 5k is his…

It’s an early spring morning in Boulder, Colorado, and I’m sitting in a local coffee shop drinking a piping hot coffee and trying to warm up. Typical for Colorado in early spring, it is blizzarding out, with a cold wet snow coming down.…

Welcome to Colorado, Wylie Mangelsdorf!  The Alaskan transplant has finished as high as third in the famed Mount Marathon and now brings those mountain running skills to Colorado.  Mangelsdorf talks training, Alaska, and, of course, Mount…