Pikes Peak Bust 2008

I wasn’t planning to do this race again so soon, but then a family member offered to schedule her trip to Colorado Springs around the marathon if I wanted to go up for a visit. So, when registration opened in March, I signed up for the ...Read the rest of this post...
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I Got Published

The March issue of American Fitness magazine published one of my photographs taken during the 2006 Pikes Peak Marathon. ...Read the rest of this post...
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Pikes Peak Video

Dan K. made a cool video compiled from pictures taken by several people (including a bunch of mine) of participants taken during the Rogue 2006 Pikes Peak marathon training program. Click HERE for a larger view.

Locations in the video include Barr Trail (up to Pikes Peak), Guadelupe Mountains National Park, Hill Country State Natural Area near Bandera, and the Rogue Trail Series races in Austin. ...Read the rest of this post...
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2006 Pikes Peak Marathon

Links:
- Photo Album
- Austin Area Results
- All results
- Route info (from last year)

On August 20, I ran the 2006 Pikes Peak Marathon, which runs up a 7800ft elevation gain to Pikes Peak (14,110ft) and back down. Arkansas has traditionally boasted one of the largest contingents outside Colorado to participate in the races. This was the year that Texas runners (primarily from the Austin area) edged out other states for the largest out of state contingent. ...Read the rest of this post...
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Barr Trail Mountain Race

Links

• Photo Album
• Austin Group's Results
• All Results

Report

On July 16, 2006, I ran the Barr Trail Mountain Race in Manitou Springs, Colorado. Twenty-three runners from the Rogue training group in Austin travelled to run the race, and most stayed a few days for additional training runs out of Barr Camp in preparation for next month's marathon. The course runs 6 miles up 3600 ft along the Pikes Peak Marathon course to Barr Camp(10,200ft) and then ...Read the rest of this post...
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Austin Hill Comparisons

I have been doing lots of hill repeats as part of training for Pikes Peak. So I was curious how the different hills compare to each other. I recorded some runs on my Garmin GPS generated the graphs below to compare the following hills in Austin ...Read the rest of this post...
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Guadelupe Mountains Trip

May 4-7, 2006:

• Photos
• Routes run
  

Since there are no mountains in Austin, a bunch of participants in the Rogue Pikes Peak Marathon training group took a long weekend trip to the Guadalupe Mountains National Park to do some training runs in terrain more similar to the race course. But this trip had additional meaning for me since the last time I was here, seven years before, that was the wake-up call that was the catalyst to get me started in the marathon training. ...Read the rest of this post...
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2005 Pikes Peak Ascent

In August of 2005, I ran the Pikes Peak Ascent, (13.2 miles) that runs up the face of Pikes Peak mountain. Others ran the full marathon the next day which runs up, and then back down.

• Link to complete photo album
• Maps from GPS data
• Sample pictures: (click a any image in this post for the full size image)

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