“Pura vida! It’s such a touristy thing to say, but it’s Costa Rica,”
Timothy Olson emphasized of the popular Costa Rica saying that means “pure life” in Spanish. He continues, “Once you get out of the capital city of San Jose, it really is pura vida. It’s more relaxed, it’s a different atmosphere, and it’s one that I love.”
I love it too, and held onto Olson’s every word about his life between Costa Rica and the U.S. “We went in November of 2019 and stayed almost nine months–our visa kept getting extended. We came back to the U.S. in June 2020 and stayed four months before going back to Costa Rica last fall,” he said of the back and forth. “With everything going on, it was nice to be in a small community. All of my runs were by myself. I see farmers and that’s it, I’ve become friends with a lot of them.” The Olson family has just returned from another four-month stay in Costa Rica and is now back in Boulder, Colorado. We back up to his start
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The 2021
‘The Coastal Challenge’ is upon us! A six day, supported, 230.5km journey that takes runners from Quepos to the UNESCO heritage Drake Bay.
Over the years, TCC has grown in stature with an incredible list of athletes from all over the world, in 2020,
Kaytlyn Gerbin and
Cody Lind took the top honors. Unfortunately, due to Covid-19, the 2021 TCC will see a reduced capacity race that will primarily see local participants with only a very small contingent coming from other locations.
It’s fortuitous for TCC that 2018 participant and
adidas Terrex athlete,
Timothy Olson now bases himself in Costa Rica and therefore he will toe the line for the 2021 edition. The last time he raced at TCC he battled with
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A two-vehicle crash on Interstate 94 near Osakis on Saturday, June 6, injured five people and one of them was airlifted from the scene.
At about noon, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office received multiple 911 calls of the crash, which happened on I-94 at the Osakis interchange at mile marker 114.
An initial investigation shows that the first vehicle, an Oldsmobile Silhouette van driven by Nancy Taft of Browerville, had been eastbound on I-94. Taft was attempting to exit at the Osakis off ramp and had stopped in the right-hand lane, waiting to merge due to other traffic, according to the sheriff’s office.