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Bolder Boulder: Wacker, Hutton running for Team USA

2016-05-29T22:46:08.084Z

Andy Wacker and Brittni Hutton talk about the opportunity to run for Team USA in Monday's Bolder Boulder. Hutton won the Bolder Boulder citizens' race last year, beating about 25,000 other women runners in the process. Wacker has placed second in the Pikes Peak Ascent in each of the last two years ... and promises that he'll be back in 2016!

Mattie Suver is fourth among U.S. runners in Bolder Boulder elite field

2014-05-27T01:36:53.966Z

Mattie Suver of Colorado Springs talks about her run in the Bolder Boulder 10K. She joined Colorado Runners Brianne Nelson and Wendy Thomas on Team Blue in the Bolder Boulder International Challenge. Results coming when they're made available.
Mamito Daska of Ethiopia won the women's pro race for the fourth time. clocking 32:21, while American Shalene Flanagan placed second in 33:05. Brianne Nelson of Golden was the third U.S. woman to finish.
More results coming when they're made available.
Suver, Nelson and Thomas are part of the Colorado Springs-based American Distance Project training group coached by Scott Simmons.

Scott Dahlberg wins Bolder Boulder 10K

2014-05-26T23:04:28.406Z

Scott Dahlberg said he had to run scared in the Bolder Boulder, but the plan worked. Dahlberg, who runs for the Boulder Running Company/Adidas team, held off teammate Andy Wacker to take the win in 30 minutes, 50 seconds. Dahlberg, who graduated from Peyton High School in 2003, is an assistant cross country coach at Colorado State University.
"Growing up in Colorado, knowing about Bolder Boulder, it's always been a goal to win it at some point and today I felt good."
It was Dahlberg's first win in six tries at Bolder Boulder.
Wacker clocked 30:56.

Shalane Flanagan inspired by Pikes Peak Ascent experience

2014-05-26T00:09:09.965Z

The running world knows Shalane Flanagan for her heroic efforts in the Boston Marathon, and for the bronze medal she won in the 10,000-meter run at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. But few know that at age 17 she ran in the 1998 Pikes Peak Ascent, the tough 13.32-mile trail run to the mountain's 14,115-foot summit.
And here is the kicker, Flanagan says the Pikes Peak Ascent was the experience that convinced her to pursue distance running.
"I don't think, at the time, I'd ever run anything over six miles," Flanagan said. "So it was quite the arduous journey. I had no idea what I was getting myself into, but I was like addicted. I thought it was the coolest race I'd ever run, and it was the most challenging thing I'd ever done. It really inspired me and kind of got me into distance running."
Flanagan, who lives in Portland, Ore., will compete in the 2014 Bolder Boulder on Monday as part of of the USA's Team Red, which also includes Deena Kastor (Mammoth Lakes, Calif.) and Sara Hall of Flagstaff, Ariz.
In her first and only trip up Pikes Peak, Flanagan placed eight overall in the women's race and won her age group with a time of 3 hours, 14 minutes, 37 seconds.
Though she has competed in some of the world's biggest and most competitive races, she vividly remembers Pikes Peak and the challenges that Barr Trail threw at her.
"They warned me, but I had no idea what elevation I was. I just knew that I was going to climb for a long time," Flanagan said. "I remember thinking, 'They call this a race?' I remember having to walk a lot. It's just a tough test. It tests everything. It tests your mind. It tests your body. But it's like one of the prettiest things I've ever done."
Flanagan finished seventh in the 2014 Boston Marathon, recording a personal-best time of 2:22:02. She said decision to run at Bolder Boulder was "last minute," but her fitness coming off of the Boston Marathon is solid.
"My biggest challenge is racing at altitude," she said. "Its going to be tough, and I'll have to really calculate my energies really well, not having trained at altitude recently."
Flanagan was born in Boulder to parents who were runners. Her mother, Cheryl Treworgy, once held the women's world record in the marathon (set as Cheryl Bridges in 1971.) Flanagan said she can recall watching the Bolder Boulder as a child.
"I was that little kid sitting in the stadium watching all the runners come pouring in," she said. "And I remember thinking, I want to do this race someday. My parents would run it. It's just a big celebration, super fun."
Flanagan trained in Colorado Springs during her run-up to Beijing, and again in 2013 prior to the Boston Marathon.
"I'm just a huge fan of the surface along the river (Monument Creek)," she said. "You can get some really good runs in, and it's a really good running community."

How Wendy Thomas advanced from Bolder Boulder citizen runner to Team Colorado - in three years

2012-05-27T00:44:13.195Z

Three years ago, Wendy Thomas placed 11th in the Bolder Boulder citizen race. Later that day, with the crowd at Folsom Field on its feet and cheering wildly, she watched as the elite women finish the race.
The moment struck something deep inside her. She vowed to be there someday, running among the world's best.
On Monday, Thomas (Boulder Running Company/Adidas) will make good on her word. She'll run as part of the three-member Team Colorado in the popular 10K.
Thomas, who grew up in Colorado Springs and attended St. Mary's High School (she was Wendy Moyle then) where she played on a state championship volleyball team. She started running four years ago after giving birth to her second child. The plan was to lose some weight. But she got faster with every race. After Bolder Boulder, she'll attempt to qualify for the Olympic Trials in the 10,000-meter run.