Posts Tagged ‘Eldorado Canyon’

Memorial Day weekend is a double header for us; our regular Saturday morning run and then a Monday morning run for anyone not running the Bolder Boulder. The word for this weekend was “energy”.  My energy was flowing and I ended both runs feeling absolutely high; so filled with endorphins and happiness that I could [...]

My sister Rachael added running into her workout repertoire a few months ago.  She lives on top of a big hill in Boulder, so her runs always go down and then back up at the end.  Until a few days ago, I didn’t know how far or how fast she usually went.  I casually invited [...]

Change is in the air. The colors are deepening, the sun is lower on the horizon, and there’s a certain calm that comes after the busy-ness of summer. It’s officially autumn now, and the temperatures reflect that change. It was 47 degrees at 6:20 on Saturday morning; warm enough for shorts, but still a mite [...]

Mark Allen is a six-time Ironman champion. Brant Secunda is a shaman. They’ve known each other for many years, and collaborated on a book called “Fit Soul, Fit Body”. The book doesn’t detail how to attain fitness, nor does it detail how to attain enlightenment. Rather, it delves into the aspects that come together to [...]

“Hard” is the word that describes today’s run. It was hard getting up this morning, hard running up the many hills, hard finding sustained energy to make it up said hills, and hard standing around in the cold afterwards. We start at the Mesa Trailhead in Eldorado Canyon. From there we go uphill to Bluestem, [...]