Tag Archives: Pikes Peak Road Runners
Mike’s grave
Up the hill from my home is a cemetery opening onto a foothills trail that leads to a high school track, where a runner long sidelined might begin again, might test against age and injury the possibility of recovery, or at least resilience. And then might walk home through the cemetery, but not before stopping […]
The race set before us
Thirty-five minutes into my last race I developed a stitch that spelled trouble. I was less than halfway through the 7-point-something-mile course and the usual remedies — slowing to a jog and jabbing a few fingers stiffly under my lower ribs — had no effect. That was when the nature of the Fall Series — […]

