The Impossible Record…Broken The 68th running of the Pikes Peak Marathon & Ascent (PPM & PPA) took place during the second weekend of September. The race dates were moved two years ago–from the middle of August to the middle of September–because of the volatility of the Colorado monsoon season and the unpredictable weather it could… Read more »
Announcement from Road Race Management, Inc. The Pikes Peak Marathon takes place each year in Manitou Springs, Colorado, right in ATRA’s backyard. A committee made up of race directors, athletes, media, corporate executives and club officials has named Ron Ilgen, Pikes Peak Marathon, Inc. President and Race Director, as the MarathonFoto/Road Race Management Race Director… Read more »
Last month, the world’s top short distance trail runners gathered in Manitou Springs, CO, at the base of Pikes Peak, “America’s Mountain,” for the 67th edition of the historic Pikes Peak Marathon races. The event consisted of two main races: The Pikes Peak Ascent, a half marathon (13.32 miles) on Saturday and the Pikes Peak… Read more »
The world’s top mountain runners will be gathering in Manitou Springs, Colorado, at the base of Pikes Peak, “America’s Mountain,” for the 67th edition of the historic Pikes Peak Marathon races. The event weekend consists of two main races: The Pikes Peak Ascent, a half marathon (13.32 miles) to the summit on Saturday and the… Read more »
Story and photos by American Trail Running Association contributor Peter Maksimow. “It’s good to be back to racing….I have missed this.” These words were the general sentiments which reverberated among the participants of the 66th installment of the Pikes Peak Marathon (PMM) on Sunday, August 22. Most running events have been postponed or cancelled altogether… Read more »
The first time I met Brittany Charboneau was in the summer of 2019 at a Peak Performance Running practice for youth athletes in Golden (Colorado). Both Charboneau and I were helping with the practice and we ended up having a conversation about trail running. She didn’t know much about the sport, but picked my brain… Read more »
Peter Maksimow is ATRA’s Outreach & Partnership Specialist and lives in Manitou Springs, CO. He is also an elite trail runner, plogger and member of the silver medal winning US team at the 2015 World Long Distance Mountain Running Championships. Photos by Peter Maksimow. The recent Pikes Peak Ascent and Marathon in Manitou Springs, Colorado… Read more »
Tayte Pollmann’s articles are supported by American Trail Running Association corporate member Nike Trail Running. You can follow Tayte’s adventures on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Salomon is an ATRA member. Photos by Peter Maksimow and Tayte Pollmann. This past weekend the 64th annual Pikes Peak Ascent & Marathon were held in Manitou Springs, CO. On Saturday,… Read more »
Press release written by Pikes Peak Ascent & Marathon. Salomon and Sage Canaday are ATRA members. Photos by Peter Maksimow. MANITOU SPRINGS – With a comfortable lead and the Pikes Peak Marathon women’s race record in sight, Swiss runner Maude Mathys made the famous turn on the mountain’s 14,115-foot summit on Sunday. Keep it together,… Read more »
The Pikes Peak Ascent & Marathon and Salomon Running are American Trail Running Association (ATRA) corporate members. ATRA’s Peter Maksimow is the Barr Trail Mountain Race event committee member. ATRA is an International Skyrunning Federation (ISF) associate member. When runners in the 2019 Barr Trail Mountain Race and the Pikes Peak Ascent and Marathon make… Read more »
The American Trail Running Association’s Nancy Hobbs, Tayte Pollmann and Peter Maksimow attended all the Pikes Peak race weekend festivities and contributed to the following story. The 63rd Pikes Peak Marathon, the fourth Golden Trail Series race supported by ATRA member Salomon, and Pikes Peak Ascent took place in the small mountain town of Manitou… Read more »
Press release from ATRA member Pikes Peak Ascent & Marathon. Salomon Running is also an American Trail Running Association corporate member. MANITOU SPRINGS – Some of the best mountain runners in the world will take on the 63rd Pikes Peak Marathon on Sunday, Aug. 19, and race organizers believe that’s a great reason to host the… Read more »
Press release from ATRA member Pikes Peak Marathon Inc. EDITORS NOTE: Any Lab Test Now and their testing partner, Quest Diagnostics, are not certified by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA). Test results from Pike Peak, including those deemed to be “positive,” can’t be recognized by USADA, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), USA Track & Field… Read more »
Written by Nancy Hobbs and Richard Bolt. Photos by Richard Bolt. The Pikes Peak Trekker Expedition kicks off with a meet and greet at the Colorado Running Company in Manitou Springs. The Colorado non-profit, American Trail Running Association (ATRA), will collecting panoramic images of the entire Barr Trail through a unique project dubbed the Pikes… Read more »
Press release from ATRA corporate member Pikes Peak Ascent and Marathon. MANITOU SPRINGS – When you think of Colorado Springs history, it all begins with Pikes Peak; and for 60 years the Pikes Peak Ascent and Marathon has helped define the mountain and what it means to the citizens of the Pikes Peak Region. “I… Read more »
Press release written by Tim Bergsten. The Pikes Peak Ascent & Marathon is an ATRA corporate member. MANITOU SPRINGS, Colo. – The running community in Colorado Springs is big and contains many moving parts, but on Thursday, Aug. 18th, it will become one, a family that lives and plays together, celebrating its running culture at… Read more »
MANITOU SPRINGS, Colo. – The journey to the 2016 Pikes Peak Ascent and Marathon begins Saturday with race registration Are you ready for America’s Ultimate Challenge, the 61st Pikes Peak Ascent and Marathon? Runners from around the globe will take their starting positions in front of their computers and cell phones for the first leg… Read more »
MANITOU SPRINGS, Colo. – Pikes Peak Marathon, Inc. to relaunch PikesPeakSports.us as a new online running publication. Hanging out beneath a shade tree at the Pikes Peak Ascent and Marathon Expo in 2012, Killian Jornet, arguably the world’s most famous mountain runner, signed autographs and visited with fellow runners and race fans. They wanted to… Read more »
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