Need Help With A Strong Finish To Your Holiday Shopping?
Endurance athletes tend to shop like they race. Yep, if you’re the type that likes to draft, just waiting to attack at the right time, you need to make your shopping move soon. If you tend to start off strong but then later helplessly get swallowed up by the competition, you probably need help about now with your holiday shopping. Of course, if you lead from the front and finish strong, your holiday shopping is likely finished, but for those searching for a strong finish, we’ll make it happen for you!
Join us at Team Racing Colorado and we’ll give you the coaching to finish your holiday shopping strong. There’s even a super secret injection for you, probably banned, but totally undetectable. Yes, it’s our ONLINE ATHLETE’S STORE where we’ve done your pre-shopping for you. We’ve waded through all the garbage at Amazon, carefully selecting items that are just what your favorite athlete wants this season. We give you just a few pages of good stuff, not a few million pages of blab blah blah… Of course there are recommended books that belong on every athlete’s shelf. There’s also cycling cuff links, GPS training systems, heart rate monitors, and a tight red speedo for you ladies who want to spice up your man in the pool this holiday. You can find all kinds of performace wear and training aids as well, and if you’re really looking for punishment, of course you can jump off into the thousands of aisles in amazon.com. It’s still not too late to do mail order this season, but it’s definitately time for your final sprint (e-gift cards from REI and trisports.com are also an option). You can also visit this page for discounts on other sweet, athlete-specific items from Oakley, REI, H2O Audio, and Accelerade, not offered in the store.
So heading into the final stretch, we’ll make sure you don’t bonk this holiday season. Just follow the system built by our top staff of coaches, trainers, docs, and psychs, and we’ll see you on the holiday shopping podium!
Colorado Cross Country Skiing and Snowshoe Calendar Continues To Grow
Heading into the season that makes it provides unique opportunities for endurance athletes, Racing Colorado’s Winter Nordic sports event calendar lists a ton of races. And more are being added all the time! Whether you’re a racer that lives for the challenge of competitive cross country skiing, or you just like to slap on the snowshoes to stay in shape for the dryer sports, there’s plenty to keep you fit. This video highlights America’s Uphill in Aspen. While that event is still several months out, it’s a classic race that invites you to don your cross country skis, snowshoes, or traction running shoes and see how you fare going up, up, and up (did I mention it’s uphill?). Just take a look to whet your appetite for the winter season!
Washington Park Turkey Trot - Great Big, But Not Great
The turkey trot is as much a tradition for some as potatos and pumpkin pie. Next to Bolder Boulder, the local turkey trot is the most popular run. Almost any kind of race is available each Thanksgiving ranging from the informal club trail race to the “run with thousands of revelers” style. Good thing too, because as a good number of Colorado runners are learning, bigger is not always better.
The Mile High United Way Turkey Trot is a long-time tradition, drawing thousands of runners each year to Denver’s Washington Park on Thanksgiving to run and raise money for charitable causes. At four miles, it’s a good race for those who are more likely running (or Heaven forbid, “jogging”) but not really “racing”. But whether it’s Bolder Boulder or a crowd of thousands packed into Washington Park, those looking for a fastest race will have their work cut out for them. Along with winding around runners (or worse, being jostled when getting passed), the logistic issues of getting an accurate time from the starting line to the finish line require a really outstanding run to score your PR. Here are some comments of some of the Washington Park runners from the beginningtriathete.com forum:
Holy cow!!! My husband and I went with our two boys in the double BOB and we had no idea there were going to be so many people. I think the announcer said 8000 people!!!!!!!!! It was insane.
I’m all for helping a good cause, but I find it hard that they have been doing it for 30+ years. The finish line was a mess. There were so many people that we actually had to stop running 15feet before the finish. Then, what a mess with the timing chips. Why was it timed anyways?? There’s too many people for that. I could see it were ALL runners, but there were families, kids, older people, lots of walkers, etc.. I think they should have a rule (like they do with The Race For The Cure) that all walkers stay to the right. It was crazy trying to dodge all the people with my stroller. Yikes!
…next year, we’ll donate the money to a cause and run our own path. It’s just a little too difficult with two young kids-ya know?
I had heard amazing things about this race, but was a little unimpressed. The whole finish line fiasco did not help. There were WAY too many people to have 1 shotgun start. I am happy I did it as it is for a great cause, but not sure I’ll do it next year.
The WPTT supports a good cause but I’ll pass. The Turkey Run at Highlands Ranch is much more manageable…about 1,000 runners.
It is a large race and I knew from last year a large turn out… I think most the people that do a Thanksgiving Turkey trot run are doing it for fun and not really competition.
I’ve never run in Wash Park but it seems to be the most generic place that everyone likes to hold their races at, i.e., pick a cause and throw it in front of “5k” and you’ve got a race. Might do the <Jingle Bell> “5k” in December and this would be my first Wash Park experience. But otherwise, no thanks…
Upcoming Colorado Events- MSC #8, Winter Park Pursuit
- 13th Annual Tenderfoot Mountain Du/Tri
- Bike with Pike Westcliffe Adventure 2010
- 24 Hours of Leadville Mountain Bike Race
- Bergen Peak Trail Race
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- Tenderfoot Mountain Kiwanis Kids` Triathlon
- American Discovery Trail Marathon
- Aetna Park to Park 10 Miler
- Jog in the Bog
- Boulder Hometown Fair 5K/10K
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- MSC #9, Fall Classic
- Boulder Sunset
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