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News From: Wednesday, May 22, 2013
 Colorado Colfax Marathon
  Human Interest Story
   Colorado Colfax Marathon Race Director Concedes Half-Marathon was Short. (Denver Post)
Creigh Kelley confirmed that the Colorado Colfax Half-Marathon course was one-tenth of a mile short after remeasuring the course.


News From: Monday, May 20, 2013
 Colorado Colfax Marathon
  Post-Race Review/ Results
   Abraham Rutto Wins Colfax Marathon in Denver With Record Setting Time (Denver Post)
Abraham Rutto won the Colorado Colfax Marathon as a tune-up to next month's Grandma's Marathon with a time of 2 hours 24 minutes and 34 seconds.

   New Record Times Set in Colfax Marathon (The Denver Channel)
Abraham Rutton won the Colorado Colfax Marathon with a time of 2 hours 24 minutes and 34 seconds.


News From: Tuesday, May 14, 2013
 Colorado Colfax Marathon
  Human Interest Story
   Colfax Marathon Just Another Way Vince DiCroce's Life 'Defying Death' (Daily News)
Vince DiCroce may switch from running the Colfax half-marathon to the marathon. He has run twenty-eight marathons since being diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2004 when doctors gave him a life expectancy of three to five years.


News From: Thursday, November 15, 2012
 Colorado Colfax Marathon
  Human Interest Story
   Colfax Marathon Goes Exotic In 2013 (9News.com)
The Colorado Colfax Marathon will offer its half-marathon participants a chance to get exotic by running through the Denver Zoo.


News From: Sunday, May 20, 2012
 Colorado Colfax Marathon
  Post-Race Review/ Results
   Colfax Marathon Sets Three New Record Times; Trent Briney New Men's Champ (Denver Post)
Trent Briney won the Colfax Marathon with a time of 2 hours 30 minutes and 26 seconds.


News From: Monday, May 16, 2011
 Colorado Colfax Marathon
  Post-Race Review/ Results
   Records Fall In Colfax Marathon (Denver Post)
Nicholas Mockeridge won the Colorado Colfax Marathon and set a course record with a time of 2 hours 34 minutes and 27 seconds


News From: Thursday, May 12, 2011
 Colorado Colfax Marathon
  Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
   Meet Colorado Runner Amy Schneider As She Preps For The Colfax Marathon (Examiner.com)
Amy Schneider may win the Colorado Colfax Marathon this coming Sunday as she hopes to run her first ever SUB 3 hour marathon.


News From: Tuesday, May 3, 2011
 Colorado Colfax Marathon
  Human Interest Story
   Colorado Marathon Participant Taken To PVH After Collapsing (Coloradoan.com)
Robert Chblenik was walking the half-marathon portion of the Colorado Marathon when he collapsed about two miles from the finish line.


News From: Sunday, May 1, 2011
 Colorado Colfax Marathon
  Post-Race Review/ Results
   Folkerts Runs Away With Colorado Marathon (Coloradoan.com)
Steve Folkerts won the Colorado Colfax Marathon with a time of 2 hours 29 minutes and 30 seconds


News From: Tuesday, April 5, 2011
 Colorado Colfax Marathon
  Human Interest Story
   Mile High Mile, Cherry Creek Sneak & Colfax Marathon ... At The Ready! (Washington Park Profile)
Several races are offered in the Colorado area as lead up events to the May 15 Colfax Marathon.


News From: Friday, May 14, 2010
 Colorado Colfax Marathon
  Human Interest Story
   Colorado Colfax Marathon Entries On the Upswing (Denver Post)
The Colorado Colfax Marathon has seen revamped courses and five different race directors in as many years and numbers for the race still continue to climb.


News From: Thursday, May 13, 2010
 Colorado Colfax Marathon
  Human Interest Story
   Runners Readying For Colfax Marathon (Aurora Sentinel)
More than thirty-five hundred runners have signed up for the Colorado Colfax Marathon this weekend. The marathon kicks off at 8:30 am at City Park


News From: Tuesday, May 11, 2010
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  Human Interest Story
   Colfax Marathon & Relay - Sunday, May 16 (9NEWS.com)
The Colfax Marathon will start and finish in Denver's City Park. Events include the marathon, half-marathon, marathon relay and kids running events on Saturday.


News From: Thursday, November 12, 2009
 Colorado Colfax Marathon
  Human Interest Story
   Kaiser Permanente to Help Colfax Marathon Thrive (Denver Biz Journal)
Denver's Colfax Marathon has gained a new sponsor after the previous sponsor The Post-News folded in the midst of the current economic times. Kaiser Permanente has come to the races rescue to sign a new sponsorship deal for 2010.


News From: Monday, May 18, 2009
 Colorado Colfax Marathon
  Post-Race Review/ Results
   First-timers win at Colfax Marathon (Denver Post)
Heater Urata won the woman's title at the Colfax Marathon in Colorado with a time of 3 hours 13 minutes and 48 seconds. The man's overall champion went to Matt Kempton with a time of 2 hours 41 minutes.


News From: Monday, May 11, 2009
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  Human Interest Story
   Colorado Colfax Marathon – May 17 (Denver Capitol Hill Examiner)
The fourth annual Colorado Colfax Marathon takes place on May 17 at 6 AM along Colfax Avenue which is the longest continuous street in the United States measuring forty miles from start to finish.


News From: Monday, May 19, 2008
 Colorado Colfax Marathon
  Human Interest Story
   Error of their ways not an issue: For the second year running, field is led astray (Rocky Mountain News)
The Colfax Marathon changed their course for this years 26.2 mile race. Justin Cox won the race in 2 hours 43 minutes and 22 seconds. This year race, similar to the misdirection in last years race, probably cost Justin 2 minutes as he ran an extra quarter mile. Cox won last years race, but his time this year was still a personal best despite the added length of the already brutal 26.2 mile race.

  Post-Race Review/ Results
   Record participation at Colfax Marathon (Cleveland Examiner)
Boulder resident Justin Mock won the annual Post-News Colorado Colfax Marathon for the second straight year, with a time of 2 hours 42 minutes and 27 seconds. The event drew the largest number of participants in the race's three-year history. 22-year-old Tristan Mitchell finished in 2:47.46 to take second place.


News From: Tuesday, May 13, 2008
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  Human Interest Story
   Colfax Colorado Marathon celebrates Colfax Avenue (Your Hub)
The Post-News Colorado Colfax Marathon is ready to roll on Sunday, May 18, 2008 at 6 a.m. in City Park with a redesigned course, an exciting charity partners program, and 5,000 athletes. The days events include the 26.2 mile marathon, half marathon and the 5 person relay. The course will run on the famous Colfax Avenue.


News From: Tuesday, March 4, 2008
 Colorado Colfax Marathon
  Human Interest Story
   Get ready to run your fastest Colorado Colfax Marathon ever. (the Hub Post News)
Six AM on May 18, 2008 will mark the start of the 3rd annual Colorado Colfax Marathon and race organizers are touting this years race as blazingly fast. The course has been revamped with no net gain in elevation and the elimination of many of the arduous hills covered in the previous two years. Over six thousand runners are expected to travel the new scenic course which runs along the world famous Colfax Avenue.


News From: Saturday, November 10, 2007
 Colorado Colfax Marathon
  Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
   Colfax Marathon Revamped (Denver Post)
The Colorado Colfax Marathon and half marathon will be revamped significantly next May, a year after the race absorbed stinging criticism for a course-marking error and other problems.


News From: Monday, July 30, 2007
 Colorado Colfax Marathon
  Human Interest Story
   Council Pumps Funds Into Colfax Marathon Again (Aurora Sentinel)
The city will lend the marathon $45,000 - money that was already loaned by, then paid back to Aurora the first year of the race.


News From: Thursday, July 19, 2007
 Colorado Colfax Marathon
  Human Interest Story
   Fate Of Colfax Marathon To Be Decided (Aurora Sentinel)
The city will decide this month whether to continue to financially support the two-year-old, troubled Colorado Colfax Marathon.


News From: Tuesday, May 29, 2007
 Colorado Colfax Marathon
  Post-Race Review/ Results
   It's Official: Colfax Marathon Course Too Long (Denver Post)
Over the weekend, course certifiers found that it was .513 of a mile too long.


News From: Friday, May 25, 2007
 Colorado Colfax Marathon
  Post-Race Review/ Results
   Colfax Marathon Was Marathon-plus (Rocky Mountain News)
Although USA Track and Field certified the course's length, the runners were steered the wrong way in City Park. Coming down the Escalade, they should have turned left at Martin Luther King Boulevard, but were steered farther west to the Pavilion before making their left.


News From: Sunday, May 20, 2007
 Colorado Colfax Marathon
  Post-Race Review/ Results
   Mock, Rogers Win Colfax Marathon (Denver Post)
Justin Mock of Boulder, 25, ran away with the men's marathon in 2:53:42 (6:38 pace). Lakewood's Steve Krebs, who has finished second in at least a dozen marathons including Colfax last year, did it again, finishing in 3:00:31.


News From: Tuesday, May 15, 2007
 Colorado Colfax Marathon
  Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
   Colfax Marathon Aiming For Stronger Finish (Rocky Mounain News)
Race highlights


News From: Monday, April 2, 2007
 Colorado Colfax Marathon
  Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
   Colfax Marathon Draws Star Power (Denver Post)
Samuelson, who won the first Olympic women's marathon at Los Angeles in 1984, will run on a Colorado Colfax Marathon relay team May 20. The race is auctioning the other four spots on her team to raise money for children's fitness and obesity prevention programs.


News From: Monday, June 26, 2006
 Colorado Colfax Marathon
  Training/ Health
   Long, Hot Summer's Here, So Be Sure You're Hydrated (San Bernadino County Sun)
Marathon officials from the Colorado Colfax Marathon and health experts provide advice on staying healthy and hydrated during the summer.


News From: Friday, May 26, 2006
 Colorado Colfax Marathon
  Human Interest Story
   Inaugural Colorado Colfax Marathon Draws a Crowd (Denver Post)
Brian Boyle was one of 820 marathoners who completed the 26.2-mile course through three cities along Colorado's storied and sporadically sordid thoroughfare.


News From: Thursday, May 25, 2006
 Colorado Colfax Marathon
  Human Interest Story
   Colfax Marathon Raises Bar (Denver Post)
A six-pack of marathon participants plans to visit every bar on Colfax.


News From: Monday, May 22, 2006
 Colorado Colfax Marathon
  Human Interest Story
   Colfax Marathon Effort (Denver Post)
Saundra Robinson run to battle her cancer and felt great.


News From: Sunday, May 21, 2006
 Colorado Colfax Marathon
  Human Interest Story
   Mountains and Sun make for Picture Perfect Colfax Marathon (Rocky Mountain News)
More than 5,000 people ran, walked and in a few cases rolled their wheelchairs along a 26-mile stretch of Colfax Avenue in the first-ever Colorado Colfax Marathon. Comments of runners are given.


News From: Friday, May 19, 2006
 Colorado Colfax Marathon
  Human Interest Story
   Marathon corners Colfax market (Rocky Mountain News)
More than 5,000 people are expected to run the inaurual Colfax Marathon.


News From: Saturday, May 13, 2006
 Colorado Colfax Marathon
  Human Interest Story
   Colorado Colfax Marathon: Avenue of Change (Rocky Mountain News)
The Colfax Marathon hopes to promote business on the street for which it's named.


News From: Monday, July 11, 2005
 Colorado Colfax Marathon
  Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
   Colfax Revival is a Marathon (Denver Post)
Article including details about the inaugural Colorado Colfax Marathon, which will be held on May 21, 2006.


News From: Tuesday, July 5, 2005
 Colorado Colfax Marathon
  Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
   Colfax Marathon a Go (Rocky Mountain News)
The new Colorado Colfax Marathon, which will be run down Colfax Avenue, has been set for May 21, 2006. Marathon organizers hope to improve business on the avenue and overcome it's negative reputation.


News From: Monday, November 29, 2004
 Colorado Colfax Marathon
  Human Interest Story
   Run away from Colfax Marathon (Denver Post)
Story on the negatives (and what a bad idea it is) of setting a marathon in Colfax Avenue



 

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