{"id":25328,"date":"2018-05-21T04:39:50","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T08:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=25328"},"modified":"2018-05-21T04:39:50","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T08:39:50","slug":"the-colfax-marathon-a-post-race-recap-for-may-20-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=25328","title":{"rendered":"The Colfax Marathon – A Post Race Recap For May 20, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

A recap for May 20, 2018 – The Colfax Marathon<\/em><\/p>\n

Three thirty AM.\u00a0 That\u2019s when the alarm \u201cradar\u2019d\u201d from my phone.\u00a0 A while back, my mom and I sent Kerry a stuffed animal sloth to cheer her as her private meet and greet with Denver Zoo\u2019s real live sloth had been postponed several times.\u00a0 He kept me company in her spare bedroom and I have to say as I gazed on the clock, I really thought that sloth had the right idea.\u00a0 \u00a0Sleep in, have some grapes, go back to bed.\u00a0 It was awfully tempting.<\/p>\n

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But I wasn\u2019t quite ready to buy the web domain of slothkevinsloth.com<\/a>.\u00a0 So there was running to do, sinus infection and stuffy head be damned.\u00a0 I hoped as I often do when ailing that a shock and awe 26.2 miles might sweat out the germs.<\/p>\n

And so I drove to Denver\u2019s City Park for the 6 am start of the race.<\/p>\n

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\nIt was a chilly morning, 45 degrees and not slated to get much warmer even when the sun got up.\u00a0 And true to forecast, it did not get above fifty.\u00a0 It even drizzled as a cold wind cut through to my core for miles at a time.<\/p>\n

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Still in the end it was a good run through Denver… albeit the mile high altitude took a rough toll from step one straight on through to step 40,000-ish.\u00a0 I was glad Kerry had taken me on that St Mary\u2019s Glacier Hike or else the huffing and puffing and wheezing might have REALLY worried me.<\/p>\n

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And I was also super glad to have Kerry brave the elements and cheer me on at mile 6 and again hours later around mile 22.\u00a0 She was a trooper and it made for a moment to look forward to, to enjoy if only for a moment, and then to recall for a mile or two afterward.\u00a0 A useful distraction from the wheezing, be it from the air up there or the stuffiness in there of my sinuses.\u00a0 I’m saving that photo for the end of this post.<\/p>\n

The visual highlight was probably running through Mile High Stadium… er, I mean, Sports Authority Field at Mile High.<\/p>\n

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We actually got to do it twice – once on the way out to Colfax and once on the way back.<\/p>\n

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Kerry and her friends had joked with me about Colfax proper, warning me that it was a bit of the Meaner Streets of Denver.\u00a0 She even said knowing my penchant for murder hotels so wondered which of the potentially hourly charge motels I would have booked had I not stayed with her.\u00a0 They mentioned The Aristocrat so I giddily texted a few shots of it to Kerry as I ran past.<\/p>\n

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Beyond the Colfax limits, though, there were a number of parks and water views, and admittedly more than a few miles of surface streets.\u00a0 As cold as it was I tried to say thank you to the smiling volunteers.\u00a0 They were stuck in the cold getting splashed by water cups occasionally bobbled by runners… or at least occasionally bobbled by yours truly.<\/p>\n

Here then are some pics from the course.<\/p>\n

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I missed grabbing photos with a few folks I saw along the way… the biggest surprises are being one of my shipmates from the Antarctica Marathon<\/a>!\u00a0 Vernon Chapman — if you\u2019re reading this, I\u2019d like to tell you something about the race using a saying I learned from Kerry this weekend: you slayed it like a dragon!<\/em><\/p>\n

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In the end, we wound up back where we started.\u00a0 City Park was abuzz with 200+ charity group tents who had fielded runners in the marathon, relay, half, or ten miler.<\/p>\n

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Lots of folks, lots of food… but my stomach per usual post run was a bit wonky.\u00a0 Still, there\u2019s always room for a chocolate creamsicle!<\/p>\n

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Oh, and for statistics sake, it looks like I ran a 3:28:52.<\/p>\n

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I fortunately didn\u2019t need the ambulance but kinda wanted it given this freakin\u2019 sinus infection that just won\u2019t die.<\/p>\n

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Kerry, one of my go-to medical advisors, thinks at this point it\u2019s viral and I really might need to cut back on running and just sleep it out of me…\u00a0 but she also knows telling me that is like trying to tell a quokka to be unhappy.\u00a0 \u00a0It\u2019s just not in our natures.<\/p>\n

Haven\u2019t heard of the quokka?\u00a0 Here… and, you\u2019re welcome.<\/p>\n

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We grabbed a delightful brunch before I headed to the airport.\u00a0 I posted this to Facebook and I think it sums up the weekend nicely:<\/p>\n

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A recap for May 20, 2018 – The Colfax Marathon Three thirty AM.\u00a0 That\u2019s when the alarm \u201cradar\u2019d\u201d from my phone.\u00a0 A while back, my mom and I sent Kerry a stuffed animal sloth to cheer her as her private meet and greet with Denver Zoo\u2019s real live sloth had been postponed several times.\u00a0 He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}