The 2020 running season begins with an Irish brogue in two weeks when the Runnin’ of this Green takes over LoDo, kicking off a Colorado race calendar that will include a brand new marathon in Boulder with an end to the Pearl Street Mall.
The new “Boulderthon” marathon and half marathon, that divides the Boulder Backroads Marathon under new direction, is set for Oct 11. Approximately half of this race will be run on the rural roads out by the Boulder Reservoir at which the aptly named Backroads races occurred, but it will head west and south into downtown Boulder.
“The goal here would be to deliver Boulder collectively around a signature city marathon series,” said race director Phil Dumontet, an entrepreneur and restaurateur from New York who moved to Colorado two decades ago and resides in Longmont. “We obtained the Boulder Backroads show, looking to keep what made that race so good but also deliver the race downtown — bring it to your heart and soul of Boulder. ”
Here is our annual list of best races in Colorado — this season, it’s 20 for 2020:
March 15, LoDo
Even the bagpipes and Irish supporters will be there as standard, however the 32nd edition of this venerable St. Patrick’s heritage — a 7K that most Denver runners respect since the unofficial kickoff for the running season — has a nice new twists this season. The shamrock-shaped race decoration includes a detachable charm (Perhaps a blessed one?) At the middle that may be dispersed to hang onto a necklace, charm bracelet or keychain. Shirts will be made out of polyblend tech fabric rather than cotton. All racers will get absolutely free pictures they share and could download. And for those who choose the 2-mile event rather than the 7K (4.35 miles) main event, the 2-miler isn’t any longer a untimed run/walk — it’s definitely going to become a staged race.
Platte River Half Marathon and Relay
April 5, Littleton into Denver
This will be the 18th season of a race that begins in downtown Littleton and ends in Lincoln Park at the 127-year-old Buckhorn Exchange, Denver’s restaurant. The self-study class drops more than 100 feet as it follows the Platte. The start and end are located close to rail stops, and Trainers get a rail ticket . The Buckhorn people wear a cookout in its parking lot with beer out of Breckenridge Brewery. The race raises money for the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
April 19, Fort Collins
This race is meaning that it frees the Georgetown to Idaho Springs Half Marathon by five decades. That is a tough one, climbing 500 feet within the first two miles. The reward for this grind is five miles of spectacular views across the Horsetooth Reservoir. Overall there will be 900 feet of climbing however 1,100 feet of descent into Fort Collins to get a back profile of 200 feet. There will be three groups on the path and another at the post-race party at New Belgium Brewing Co.. There’s an $11,000 prize purse because this is a race that wants to support Front Range elite runners.
April 26, Cherry Creek
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Tracing its heritage back to 1982, that which was previously exist as a 5-mile principal event in and around the Cherry Creek shopping district enlarged to include 10-mile and 5K distances over the years. There’s also a costume competition, a beer garden and a children ’ half-mile enjoyable run.
Colorado Marathon, Half-Marathon, 10K, 5K and Marathon Relay Race
May 3, Fort Collins
These races reveal among their most scenic courses in Colorado. Place is taken by nearly 16 miles of the marathon and three miles of this half under the rugged cliffs and stones of Poudre Canyon.
“We bus everybody up there in traveling buses. It’so dark, it’so early, it&rsquo chilly,” said race director Logan Martin. “Then the sun comes up and you also find that the river, you find the stones, you find this incredible canyon, you get to run down since the sun is coming up. You’re operating next to the Poudre, that is currently flowing nicely in early May. It’s among the areas in the state, in my own estimation. ”
The races, which also include a 10K and 5K in city, finish at Washington Park near downtown Fort Collins having a beer garden and live bands.
May 17, Denver
Take your choice out of a marathon, also a marathon relay using three competitive categories (available, company teams, government agency teams), a half-marathon (using a new, much-improved class ), a 10-miler and 5-miler that jointly include Denver’s largest running event with more than 20,000 participants. But to mark the 15th anniversary of the Colfax races, there’s an entire week of events planned this season resulting in race , including the yearly Colorado Running Hall of Fame induction (Monday, May 11), a marathon movie night (Tuesday, May 12), 10-15 “shake ” conducts around city (Wednesday, May 13), a “evening out” event along Colfax Avenue (Thursday, May 14), that the race expo and package pickup (Friday and Saturday, May 15-16) at Empower Field at Mile High (Isn’t that a cool idea?) And the 5K in City Park on Saturday, May 16.
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May 25, Boulder
America’s third-largest street race returns for the 42nd season on Memorial Day with heaps of world-class athletes in distinct guys ’s and girls ’s expert races, thousands of incredibly fast runners that don’t even do it for a living and also throngs of people who just like to jog or walk throughout Boulder. This past year, the race that Runner’s World magazine called “America’s Best 10K” saw 42,936 finishers. Race organizers are hoping RTD doesn’t even go through a proposition to cancel RunRide support from locations all across the greater Denver area, and that’s the way 30 percent of the runners typically get to the race. RTD is now holding a series of meetings for people to state its view with this and other service eliminations due to a driver shortage.
Revel Rockies marathon and half-marathon
June 6, Echo Mountain into Morrison
If you wish to run from the thin air of Colorado, run downhill. These races seem like other people with thousands of feet of descent. The marathon succeeds almost 4,300 feet from the start at the Echo Mountain ski area (10,510 feet) near Squaw Pass in Clear Creek County into the end in Morrison. The half-marathon orbits almost 1,700 feet from Evergreen. Last year, race organizers are enlarging post-race recovery services to include Theraguns (percussive therapy devices), roller sticks and ice bags, and which you’ll need to see to your quads following all that downhill pounding. Revel Rockies previously was held Sundays, but this season, it moves to Saturday.
Garden of the Gods 10-mile and 10K Run
June 14, Colorado Springs
This can be a hard, scenic race towards the towering 300-foot sandstone rock formations in Garden of the Gods Park, a registered National Natural Landmark. In its 44th year, the course follows paved roads (closed to motor vehicles throughout the race) and wide sidewalks. That really can be a Colorado classic for sure know that while the climbs are steep, the rock formations provide plenty of inspiration.
June 28, LoDo
Having a panoramic LoDo course and a finish at Coors Field that comes with a lap around the field (don’t forget to cross home plate), this is a great family run. The party consists of beer hot dogs and a opportunity to hang around from the stadium. Details of the year’s race haven’t already been announced yet, but race enrollment typically comprises a coupon for two free game tickets and a T-shirt.
July 4, Superior
Pretty much everyone knows you can’t even race a mile as fast in Colorado as possible at sea level, but this race is the exception. Kicking a Fourth of July celebration that includes a parade and a breakfast Superior, the course drops 220 feet from start to finish. This past year four minutes broke five did it.
Aug. 2, Evergreen
In its 42nd season, this is most likely the 10K course in Colorado, dropping 682 feet from the start at 7,759 feet to Evergreen Lake at 7,077 feet via Upper Bear Creek Road. The 5K includes a fall of 516 feet and begins halfway down precisely the exact same path. The race benefits the Alpine Rescue Team, that provides mountain trips in Jefferson, Clear Creek and Gilpin counties. Headquartered in Evergreen, the group reacted to 136 search and rescue assignments in 2019, including 30 on the fourteeners in its coverage area (Mount Evans, Mount Bierstadt, Grays and Torreys peaks), according to Alpine Rescue Team.
Aug. 7-8, Fort Collins into Steamboat Springs
Relay races with the group of friends may be the most fun you could possibly have while conducting. Covers 200 miles from Fort Collins into Steamboat Springs via a loop into Wyoming and a jaunt over Rabbit Ears Pass. You can do it as a group of 12 or six, and the moon will soon be lighting for your legs this year. That makes relays that are overnight even more unique.
Aug. 8, Boulder
After two decades as a event in Boulder, this cosmopolitan and quintessential Colorado race moved into Saturday evening last year. It will take place, and the movement proved successful on a Saturday again this season using a criterium class about the Pearl Street Mall and around the Boulder County Courthouse. It’s really a set of mile races spanning three hours, broken into skill and age groups. The final three races would be for elite men, elite women and masters . Last year&rsquo race drawn 2,000 spectators enjoying the fun of a weekend night to the Pearl Street Mall. This race is a part of this Boulder Triple Crown race series, alongside the East End 3K on June 11 and the West End 3K around July 9.
Georgetown to Idaho Springs Half
Aug. 8; Georgetown to Idaho Springs
Although the end has been moved this year from the traditional location at the Golddigger Stadium in Idaho Springs into a location yet to be decided (because the stadium is in the process of being sold), this remains among Colorado’s must-do running occasions. This will be the 42nd running of this race that begins at Georgetown Lake, elevation 8,500 feet, and ends.
Although the route parallels Interstate 70 on roads, most of the route feels quiet and serene, more like jogging through a national park than along a major highway. As if to press the point, runners pass fly-fishing anglers as they make their way down into Idaho Springs. Befitting rsquo & the region;s mining heritage, age-group winners claim awards designed to look as the utensils used to pan for gold.
Sept. 7, Fort Collins
Following the template that made the Bolder Boulder — that comprises an end in the University of Colorado’s football stadium — a Memorial Day tradition for Front Range runners that the past four decades, the Fortitude 10K unfolds on the roads of FoCo and finishes at Colorado State University’s football field. This will be the season with this Labor Day rush, that was an instant classic.
Sept. 11-12, Idaho Springs into Buena Vista
The running of the event, brought to you from the people behind the Wild West Relay, will take runners 165 miles from Idaho Springs to Buena Vista via three mountain passes: Guanella, Georgia and Fremont. The course is intended for groups of five or 10, and the autumn colors could be gorgeous. This class follows a lot of the older Colorado Outward Bound relay. The descendant of the race, which evolved into the Ragnar Colorado street relay won’t even happen this season, according to the Ragnar site.
Sept. 26-27, Lakewood
An excellent place for ultra and road runners, all these races at Lakewood’s Bear Creek Lake Park comprise 100K, 50-mile, 50K, half-marathon and 10K options. A prize is for those who finish among the Bear Chase ultras alongside ultras at two sister occasions, ” the North Fork 50-mile/50K around June 6 in Buffalo Creek along with the Chase the Moon 12-hour endurance run on July 31 in Highlands Ranch. The prize: a candy growler with logos of the three occasions.
Oct. 4, Denver
Lots of chocolate and a lot make this a pleasant encounter, and apparently the idea of combining the two is a winner because Denver is among two dozen towns around the Hot Chocolate Run program. Another fascination for this event is that the 15K (9.3 miles) space, which can be rare in street running these days. This past year, the Denver 15K attracted 3,300 runners, with 5,000 from the 5K. In prior decades received a finisher & rsquo; s decoration, but 5K runners can get them , too this season.
Oct. 11,” Morrison
This 5K or 10K race (which comprises a family fun run) benefits the American Lung Association, and you’re definitely going to need a solid pair to do this race. It unfolds to the scenic roads of Red Rocks Park and ends by running the steps of the amphitheatre into an end line. Yes, it’s really hard. But what a beautiful place to encounter oxygen debt that is severe.
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