For a sixth straight day, the competitors in the 4th Annual GORE-TEX™ TransRockies Run were treated to perfect late summer Rocky Mountain weather with clear blue skies and only the merest hint of a breeze blowing down the Eagle River Valley from Vail...
Aug 29th 2010, 5:57pm
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Every evening, when dinner is finished, the nightly activities of the
GORE-TEX™ TransRockies Run begin. Before the daily motivational slide
show and video, members of the TransRockies crew speak to the runners,
giving them an overview...
Aug 27th 2010, 8:03pm
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Regardless of the official times, if a team races in the 80+age group
of the Gore-Tex TransRockies Run, they always win everyone’s respect.
Last night, I had the honor of meeting a group of women that I will
forever revere with ...
Aug 27th 2010, 8:01pm
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Leave a wet tee-shirt or a soaked pair of shoes out in the
high-country Colorado sunshine, and you can almost watch the damp get
scorched into vapor. The air is so thin, the solar radiation so
intense, that anything left outside in mid-day ...
Aug 27th 2010, 7:59pm
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With over 44 miles of running and 10,000 feet of elevation gain during the last two stages, there’s no easy way to the finish line of the GORE-TEX™ TransRockies Run. Stage 5 from Red Cliff to Vail was going to be the longest day on the trails of th...
Aug 27th 2010, 3:39am
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He was the golden boy of this year’s Run3; The tall blonde who crossed each finish line solo, politely shrugged off overwhelming praise with an appreciative smile and quickly retreated to the open arms of his cheering family. With every record he set...
Aug 26th 2010, 10:56pm
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Here are the preliminary Stage 5 results and overall standings. A few teams had yet to finish when these were tabulated. Complete results will follow later.
Aug 26th 2010, 10:55pm
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Stage Four of the Gore-Tex TransRockies Run looks a bit like Stage Two, minus 900 feet of elevation but adding in the bracing immersion of one mile of stream running.
If you don’t know what “stream running” is: run for eleven miles over a pass...
Aug 26th 2010, 12:44am
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As of 11:20 MDT roughly 1/2 of the runners had finished Stage 4. Here
are early preliminary results for these runner, complete official
results will be posted for all runners later today
Aug 25th 2010, 5:33pm
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