The
old Milwaukee Road trestle that straddles high above
Roosevelt Drive is new again following a $224,000 rehab
project. Now, hikers and bikers can safely navigate the
historic structure, which connects
the
Thompson Park
trail system to the Continental Divide Trail, southeast of Butte.
Trail tactics: building Buttes single tracks with a double track excavator.
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Nikki Kimball joined the 40+ age category last year and the Muddy Buzzard
ranked her
first among Montana's masters runners in 2012.
Ballantine's Sarah Graves
competed gallantly finishing the
Olympic Trials Marathon in 2:50:16. Graves qualified for the Trials
only after multiple tries before
she got it right!
The
Muddy Buzzard also recently ranked Graves first among Montana's open-division female runners
for 2011.
Coach K
interviews Montana's Lyle Weese who is training in Bozeman to qualify for his
third consecutive trip to the US Olympic Trials in the 3000 m steeplechase.
How close can one get to the finish line without finishing?
50 year old Don Demetriades of Bozeman recently entered his sixth decade
of life, and now he is the only runner in Earth's recorded history who has
run a sub-2:50 marathon in 5 of his 6 decades of life. Sadly, he didn't do
one before his tenth birthday.
Hear interview.
It was an
epic
dual to the finish line, like none seen before or since, and it was
filmed.
Two founders of Bozeman's Big Sky Wind Drinkers running club
passed away
recently. They were Ed Anacker (immortalized as the founder of "Ed
Anacker's Bridger Ridge Run") and Frank Newman.
Why not run in high heels on a treadmill?
2:03:38! Men's world record in Berlin Marathon by Kenya's Patrick
Makau.
Video
of race's last 15 minutes.
The previous record of 2:03:59 was set 3 years earlier in the same race by
Ethiopia's Haili Gebresalassie. Geb dropped out of this year's race with 7
km left to go, after Makau shook him with a
"zig-zag" strategy. Makau was rewarded by Athletics Kenya which named
him to the
Kenyan Olympic team
for the Marathon. Geb has to
race again in January to get a qualifying time to be on Ethiopia's
Marathon team.
Montana's highest point lies at 3900 meters atop Granite Peak.
Ever wonder what the
ascent record is for running there?
Video and results from the Bridger Ridge Run, where the amazing Scott
Creel of Bozeman won for the tenth time. When asked the secret to success
running the Ridge Run, Nicole Hunt of Deer Lodge (who has walked parts of the
course) said "a combination of guts and... guts. You have to be
willing to go for it on the down hills without fear of injury."
Why not to do track workouts
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Fabulous
Michele Bazzanella of Butte ranked high on the Muddy
Buzzard's 2011 list.
Team Green
came home from Great Falls with girl's
Cyppee Cup.
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The
story of UM's distance runners' coach, the Olympian, Courtney
Babcock.
MSU's Sub-4 man Patrick Casey will now be
a Sooner.
Heartbreaking
loss of shoe for Montana's Lynn Reynolds disrupted chance to qualify
for NCAA XC Nationals.
Two former Beavers tangle in
UM XC meet. Reynolds dramatically tops Weese.
UM's
Lynn Reynolds, the former Dillon Beaver, earned a spot on the starting
line of steeplechase at the
NCAA's West Regional Championship, at hallowed Hayward Field in Eugene
Oregon. Earlier this season Reynolds placed 6th in
Big Sky Conference steeplechase with a 9:07 time. He had also
previously produced a
12-second PR in a Stanford steeplechase with
a time of 8:54, which was good for 15th place in his heat at the highly competitive
Payton Jordan Invitational.
Former Butte Bulldog Keli Dennehy, now racing as
a freshwoman for the UM, placed 7th in
Big Sky Conf 1500 m in a time of 4:32, and then came back an hour
later to place 5th in the 5000 m in 17:14.
MSU's Patrick Casey (the former Laurel Locomotive) became
the first human in the history of the Earth to eclipse the 4-minute mile
barrier inside Montana's borders. Remarkably Casey did his 3:59.76 at
Bozeman's elevation on the college's supped up, banked 200m indoor track
with not one other runner in the race running a single step
at Casey's
pace.
YouTube
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Bigfork's Makena Morley
ninth place at prestigious national HS xc championships -- aka "Foot
Locker." The last Montana runner to compete in FL nationals was the legendary Zoe
Nelson.
Anaconda's
Olivia Wood sixth, Butte High's
Josh Panasuk seventh at State XC in Missoula
Meet the Bigfork Morleys
Area prep harriers register times at Mountain West run Complete
results for
boys ...
girls
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