Monday, May 27, 2013

Bolder Boulder 2013 Top 25

place name location division net time pace
1 Jeremy Freed Boulder, CO M25 30:58.28 5:00
2 Brandon Birdsong Colorado Springs, CO M25 31:15.27 5:02
3 Lee Troop Boulder, CO M40 31:26.22 5:04
4 Brice Cleland Boulder, CO M25 31:29.66 5:05
5 Glenn Randall Mesa, CO M26 31:31.46 5:05
6 Charles Hillig Denver, CO M27 31:32.41 5:05
7 Paul Petersen Fort Collins, CO M33 31:32.72 5:05
8 Scott Dahlberg Fort Collins, CO M28 31:33.54 5:05
9 Michael Chavez Fort Collins, CO M27 31:38.40 5:06
10 Brett Carter Warrensburg, MO M25 31:42.96 5:07
11 Philip Schneider Golden, CO M20 31:50.20 5:08
12 Zach Hine Boulder, CO M25 31:52.76 5:08
13 Jackson Friesth Louisville, CO M19 31:53.25 5:08
14 Austin Richmond Boulder, CO M27 31:59.47 5:09
15 Andrew Lesser Fort Collins, CO M22 32:10.59 5:11
16 Benjamin Zywicki Louisvillee, CO M24 32:10.74 5:11
17 Alasdair Russell Boulder, CO M25 32:11.49 5:11
18 Curtis Begley Jr. Boulder, CO M25 32:12.04 5:11
19 Tim Don Boulder, CO M35 32:23.53 5:13
20 Registrant Late
NOAGE 32:26.52 5:14
21 Sean Brown Aurora, CO M25 32:27.49 5:14
22 Joshua Glaab Superior, CO M30 32:36.37 5:15
23 Andrew Roberts Boulder, CO M22 32:38.82 5:16
24 Paul Roberts Boulder, CO M15 32:41.43 5:16
25 Greg Reindl Denver, CO M28 33:01.00 5:19

Men's Age Group 51 Top14 2013

bib place name location division time pace
A453 291 Keith Johnson Denver, CO M51 38:01.79 6:08
A348 368 Thomas D Kehoe Boulder, CO M51 38:46.91 6:15
AA453 547 Adam Vinueza Louisville, CO M51 40:05.52 6:28
A195 615 Tim Gentry Castle Rock, CO M51 40:33.43 6:32
AB097 687 Jim Boselli Broomfield, CO M51 41:02.78 6:37
AB396 933 Chris Muzny Boulder, CO M51 42:35.46 6:52
AB092 980 Thomas Lund Boulder, CO M51 42:44.85 6:53
AB367 1014 Michael Guenther Monument, CO M51 42:57.53 6:55
AA095 1047 Thomas Denning Superior, CO M51 43:07.19 6:57
B046 1201 Sean Connor Westminster, CO M51 43:45.24 7:03
AA455 1222 Bill Wright Superior, CO M51 43:49.02 7:04
B251 1255 Jim Moy Fort Collins, CO M51 43:54.90 7:05
B037 1371 Ed Mahoney Longmont, CO M51 44:22.64 7:09
BA076 1436 James Dykema Longmont, CO M51 44:33.16 7:11

Saturday, May 25, 2013

BolderBoulder 2013 International Team Challenge Runners

Courtesy/Stephanie Winslow-Sell Media Relations BolderBoulder

BolderBOULDER Announces International Athletes for International Team Challenge
Teams from Kenya, Mexico, Ethiopia, Peru, Canada and England slated to join challenge

BOULDER, COLO. (May 24, 2013) – BolderBOULDER, America’s All-Time Best 10K, announced today the international roster that be coming to race in the International Team Challenge at the 2013 BolderBOULDER on Monday, May 27th, 2013.
The BolderBOULDER established the International Team Challenge in 1998 and it includes professional runners from all over the world that compete on three-person teams in a team by country format, for one of the largest non-marathon prize purse races in the country. This year’s total prize purse is valued at $110,600 before bonuses. The men’s and women’s professional races follow the BolderBOULDER course and are scheduled to finish just before the start of the Memorial Day Tribute.
“Although we are very proud of our Team USA and Colorado athletes, it is always an honor to host outstanding athletes from all over the world at our race in Boulder,” said Race Director, Cliff Bosley. “We’ve had many international athletes take home first in the team challenge and it’s exciting to bring that world class racing experience to the BolderBOULDER.”
Teams for the 2013 International Team Challenge are as follows, but are subject to change.
Women’s professional athletes include teams from Kenya, Mexico, Ethiopia, Canada and Peru.
Team Kenya: Chemtai Rionotukei, Millicent Kuria and Alice Kimutai
Team Mexico: Marisol Guadalupe Romero Rosales, Madai Perez Carillo and Karina Perez
Team Ethiopia: ZemZem Ahmed, Merima Mohammed, and Amane Gobena
Team Canada: Anne Marie Madden, Sabrina Shirley Wilkie and Catherine Louise Watkins
Team Peru: Jemena Helen, Misayauri Camargo; Julia Rivera Lopez and Judith Toribio Lavado

Men’s professional athletes include teams from Kenya, Mexico, Ethiopia, Canada, England, Peru as well as the United States Air Force and the US Army’s world class athlete program trained as a part of the American Distance Project by Scott Simmons.
Team Kenya: Leonard Korir, Lani Rutto, and Allan Kiprono
Team Mexico: Jose Antonio Uribe Marino, Juan Carlos Romero Bernal and Ismael Apolo Mondragon Escalona.
Team Ethiopia: Tilahun Regassa (2009 first place BolderBOULDER winner), Tolossa Gedefa Fufi and Birhanu Gedefa (recently won 2013 Bay to Breakers race)
Team Canada: Kevin Allan Friesen, Adam William James Hortian and Terence Christopher Attema.
Team England: Rory Fraser, Keith Gerrard and Andrew Lemoncello
Team Peru: Paulino Canchanya , Jhon Lennon Casallo Lozano and Constantino Leon Lopez
Team WCAP: Robert Cheseret, Augustus Maiyo and Joseph Chirlee
Team Air Force: Will Christian, Isaiah Bragg and Ben Payne
 The International Team Challenge will take place at the BolderBOULDER on Monday, May 27th with the women’s race beginning at 11:13 AM and the men’s race beginning at ­­­­­­­11:24 AM.

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Colorado Colfax Marathon Top 15 Finishers May 18, 2013

Kaiser Permanente Colfax Marathon logo

Male Participants
1. ABRAHAM RUTTO 2:24:34
2. MATTHEW DRAKE 2:42:28
3. MATT THRASHER 2:44:59
4. TREVOR BARRON 2:48:01
5. GREG COPLEN 2:50:18
6. CHARLIE JOHNSTON 2:50:38
7. MATTHEW BIEGNER 2:51:53
8. AARON SERNA 2:55:15
9. CARL MATHER 2:56:43
10. JAY SHAEFFER 2:57:10
11. MICHAEL BURKE 2:57:38
12. CHUCK RADFORD 2:59:46
13. DONNIE HAUBERT 2:59:49
14. JESUS JIMENEZ 3:00:24
15. JOEL DUTTERA 3:01:12
Female Participants
1. NICOLE CHYR 2:57:18
2. SARAH BAY 3:09:20
3. KELSEY LUOMA 3:10:42
4. CHELSEA RANDALL 3:11:14
5. ANNE STAEHELI 3:13:13
6. AMY SCHNEIDER 3:13:37
7. KENDRA GLASSMAN 3:18:18
8. SANDRA CURRIE 3:18:40
9. JESSICA LATINO 3:21:24
10. EMILY STASIAK 3:22:57
11. KERRI NELSON 3:23:11
12. CAROLINE HERZL 3:23:12
13. JEN JOHNSON 3:25:03
14. MADDIE REEVES 3:26:06
15. CAROLYN CHASE 3:26:40

Colorado Colfax Half Marathon Top 15 Finishers May 18, 2013

Kaiser Permanente Colfax Marathon logo

Male Participants
1. DANIEL KIPKOECH 1:05:54
2. PATRICK RIZZO 1:07:21
3. CHARLES HILLIG, JR. 1:07:32
4. BOB WEINER 1:13:19
5. TRISTAN MITCHELL 1:13:24
6. DAVE SCUDAMORE 1:15:11
7. DEVIN CORNWALL 1:15:14
8. JEFFREY HOFFERBER 1:15:32
9. BRIAN GRUDOWSKI 1:16:26
10. NORMAN MININGER 1:16:27
11. JOHN SCOTT 1:16:43
12. NICK PETRAGLIA 1:17:21
13. SIMON ESCORCIA 1:19:41
14. SEAN ADAMS 1:19:52
15. ADAM BURRACK 1:20:12
Female Participants
1. LORI WALKER 1:20:02
2. KELSEY MARTIN 1:21:36
3. JAMIE ARNOLD 1:25:57
4. COLLEEN SANDERLIN 1:26:03
5. KAREN MELLIAR-SMITH 1:26:41
6. JULIA VIEL 1:27:06
7. KELLY ESCORCIA 1:28:33
8. EMILY DUGAN 1:29:05
9. KELLY MCRAE 1:30:14
10. KRISTINA KAUFMANN 1:31:11
11. ALYSSA LARSEN 1:32:04
12. LAUREN MCKILLOP 1:32:10
13. CELESTE LORENZO 1:32:15
14. DANIELLE BECK 1:32:25
15. DEBORAH VANDER STOEP 1:32:33

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Race Director Interview: Cliff Bosley Bolder Boulder Part I



Boulder, CO, (May 2013). I met Cliff at Bolder Boulder race headquarters before lunch and between appointments- it is a busy for the race director. He is dressed in a white dress shirt and tie. He has been to state legislature earlier in the morning. He has a full day of planning and meetings ahead, but still is relaxed and ready to talk Bolder Boulder. 

Thomas:  Less than a month to go, (Cliff laughs 25 days as of today-Thomas laughing ) You probably know the number of hours too..

Cliff: Well 24 days and about 20 hours..
Thomas: It probably seems like it tomorrow based on the way you are running around. This is the 35th time for the Bolder Boulder. When you started could you have ever imagined this amazing.

Cliff: I don’t know. When the race first started, I think the first year’s race we had the race finishing in North Boulder Park in 1979 and there were 2700 people. And at the time when we were promoting it with a poster and it said race limited to the first 4,000 people. And I  remember now…

Thomas:  (laughing) Is that a wave now? 

Cliff:  Yeah! I remember at the time I was part of a Boy Scout troop. My troop passed these posters out door to door. And I saw this guy standing out by his front door reading this and scoffed a little and said something like, what does a 12 year old kid know.  And I was thinking you know-you never know-I did not know anything about that statement the race limited to the first 4,000 people. I just knew my dad was doing it and it was cool and it was going to work. So the next year the raced moved to Boulder High and it doubled in size. And then the next year it increased by another 60%. And so I don’t know there was ever a thought that it could be 50,000 people. I think a lot of the early thinking was you know the stadium holds 50,000 people and everyone came with a friend there would be 100,000. So by default we were thinking that maybe 25,000 would be the number of people would come. But I think as we started doing the wave start in the early 80’s you know the wave start takes 2 and a half hours.  There are people still signing up to register after people have been done for an hour. And that is awesome. It spreads the day out more too. So it can really be 50,000 people.

Thomas: It is amazing when you think about a race of 50,000 people that you would have some runners who probably register the day after the previous years race is completed. And then you have others who wake up and race day, see the weather is good, and decide hey let’s go run the Bolder Boulder today. That has to speak to a number of things like the popularity of the race, and especially the organization.

Cliff: Thank you!

Thomas: This really is a combination of a lot of things: sponsors, organization, volunteers, everything. I know you were down at the legislature even today –this event is really a community outreach.

Cliff: You bet. And that’s how the race got founded. It was  initially envisioned a track meet for kids. But when the advice came back that hey a track meet is going to be a lot of work, why don’t you put on a road race and my father asked the question, What’s a road race? And here we get to stand 34 years later we stand  on the cusp of running the race for the 35th time.  I guess, good for me he asked the question what is a road race? I might be doing something different had he not asked that question.

Thomas: So talk about that. I’ve talked to a number of runners, joggers and even elite athlete’s  and one of the draws to the race other than the great organization, highly competitive field, and  the number of runners, is how unique the race is in that you have the stadium finish.

Cliff: You bet!

Thomas:  When folks  come into the stadium, and maybe not in those early waves that start before 7:30 in the morning, but when they come in in a hour or two hours after the race has started, there are lots of people in the stadium, it’s noisy, and it really can be an Olympic moment for a lot of people.

Cliff:  Yeah I think it is. Maybe for some of those earlier people too. The venue is unique. You are right, probably more like an hour into it where the stadium is full, there is music, people are excited, you can hear people outside the stadium not just at mile 6, but then you know there 2 tenths left and that is exactly right the stadium finish, for a lot of people that is their Olympic moment. That is their opportunity to think and maybe feel that this must be what it is like to be in the Olympics. In fact that is what we have heard our pro athlete’s say-there is nothing quite like this. Outside of the Olympics, where else do we get to have a stadium finish in front of 50,000 fans?

Thomas: So true. And even for the runners and joggers who aren’t as competitive as some, the race is still a tremendous draw-there is a lot history-you have a page on the Bolder Boulder website where people can tell their story. There  are a lot of families who mark the event as a yearly passage of time-maybe the finish isn’t an Olympic moment in terms of time, but it is in terms of emotion and family history. That has to be rewarding as a race director.

Cliff. It is. Last year there were 51,681 that registered. So we say there are 51,681 stories and it’s one experience. And you are exactly right. Everyone has a story that’s part of the Bolder Boulder experience. And just this year we have the stories on facebook. We launched a campaign, I am Bolder. What’s your story? And we will have the three final videos posted soon where people can vote on what they think is the best I am Bolder story. The interesting part is that this is just a snapshot. Two years ago, we had our 1,000,000th finisher. So there have been more than 1,000,000 people who have connected with the race.

Sunday, May 12, 2013

USA 25K Championships Results



Official Results for US Champs

Men
1. Mohamed Trafeh 1:14:18 AR
2. Josphat Boit 1:14:34
3. Matt Tegenkamp 1:14:43
4. Christopher Landry 1:15:00
5. Craig Curley 1:16:14
6. Andrew Carlson 1:16:21
7. Joe Moore 1:16:48
8. Michael Reneau 1:17:04
9. Zachary Hine 1:17:28
10. Ben Sathre 1:17:42
Women
1. Dot McMahan 1:25:52
2. Mattie Suver 1:25:54
3. Tera Moody 1:26:12
4. Melissa Johnson White 1:26:35
5. Brianne Nelson 1:27:03
6. Wendy Thomas 1:28:52
7. Stephanie Pezzullo 1:29:07
8. Katie McGregor 1:29:39
9. Theresa Taggart 1:29:41
10. Lauren Jimison 1:30:46USA 25km results

Tyson Gay on form in Jamaica

Tyson Gay!!! 9.86 in Jamaica--what's next for America's top 100 meter sprinter?

Bolder Boulder Qualified Waves