On a chilly November afternoon two weeks before Nike Cross Nationals (NXN), Porter Middaugh and Will Brunner marked off a 1-mile loop around the snow-blanketed Eagle-Vail golf course. The agenda for the Battle Mountain runners.
Thirty-five Eagle County triathletes, including the defending U.S. champions Sullivan Middaugh and Suzie Snyder, will dive into Nottingham Lake Saturday morning as XTERRA Beaver Creek competitors. The sprint (750-meter swim, 14-kilometer bike, 5-kilometer run) begins.
When the gun went off at Saturday’s Vail Recreation District Summer Solstice 10k and 5k trail run, Levi Horning took off, guns blazing. “I think I even said to him, ‘Levi, make sure you pace,’.