One of Colorado mountain running’s most beloved heroes used to climb up the ladder next to the sign draped across the town of Manitou Springs’s main drag — “Welcome, Pikes Peak Runners” — so that she could send off the hundreds of runners who had packed the narrow street to head off for the summit […]
Jill Rothenberg
Special to The Colorado Sun
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Chris McDougall takes another run at extreme athletics, this time running with burros
Hal Walter was on a sprint toward a steep trail above Georgetown a few summers ago when he lost control of his running partner, a mammoth burro named Full Tilt Boogie. “The burro started stampeding, going faster than I could go. I had to wrap the rope around my hips and go into a full-body […]
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60 years ago, the first woman to complete a U.S. marathon ran to the top of Pikes Peak and back down again
In white shorts, sleeveless blouse and dime-store tennis shoes, Arlene Pieper Stine, 29, stood on the start line of the 1959 Pikes Peak Marathon looking more like Marilyn Monroe than a mountaineer. But Pieper Stine, then a Colorado Springs health club owner, not only finished the 26-mile race, with its grueling 8,000 feet of vertical […]
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Dollar stores — 18 of them — have filled in gaps as conventional grocers pulled up stakes in Pueblo
PUEBLO — It’s a late Friday afternoon on Pueblo’s Santa Fe Avenue, a two-lane strip of road that winds out east of the Steel City, as it’s still sometimes called. The street crests a hill and runs into a part of the county known as the Mesa, where Family Dollar, Dollar Tree and Dollar General […]