Although many of the trails across Summit County are still thawing out after a long winter season, Race Breck’s summer-long Summit Trail Running Series has officially begun. The first race of the season was hosted.
It’s 9:28 a.m. on Sunday morning. Tayte Pullman, a 26-year-old writer and part-time goat dairy farm worker from Buena Vista by way of Salt Lake City, Utah, and Bismarck, North Dakota has skied.
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Local athlete and coach Kate Chapman Zander led a group of several Summit locals who shined at this season’s virtual Rise and Shine Rando ski mountaineering race series at Arapahoe Basin Ski Area.
To comply with event regulations, individual skiers logged into the Strava application and recorded their times while being tracked on the course. Skiers had four days to complete each course for the four races, with two each in January and February.
In the Jan. 12-15 race that featured two top-to-bottom laps 3,240 vertical feet of elevation gain and 6.25 miles in total the top men’s skiers in the 36-athlete race were Jason Killgore (59 minutes and 35 seconds), Brent Herring (1:04:13) and Mark Koob (1:08:00). In the nine-athlete women’s race, podium placers were Kate Chapman Zander (1:18:57), Katherine Siegerst (1:40:12) and Team Summit skier Delilah Staberg (1:41:46).