Photo from Vince Hutton / Breckenridge Recreation Department
The town of Breckenridge this summer will host a Fourth of July trail running race, the Summit Trail Running Series from July through mid-September and two standalone races in September.
Town of Breckenridge Sports and Special Events Coordinator Vince Hutton said the Independence Day 10K Trail Run will have a start time of 7 a.m. July 4.
The Fourth of July race kicks off the town’s traditional Fourth of July festivities, which also feature the Firecracker 50 mountain bike race, and finishes on Main Street. The race, which encompasses two 5.5-mile loops with 857 feet of vertical gain, has no same-day registration and is limited to 250 runners.
Photo from Jaime Brede
The inaugural ski mountaineering season for Team Summit and head coach Jaime Brede has focused primarily on training, but the team hopes to head to its first in-person competition next month.
Brede and Team Summit ski mountaineers Olivia Lyman and Delilah Staberg have trained weekly on Copper Mountain Resort’s new designated uphill routes.
The endurance training, interval training and ski mountaineering fundamentals such as bootpacking, downhill skiing on skinny skis and transitions led up to Lyman and Staberg’s first race of the season the virtual Arapahoe Basin Ski Area Rise and Shine Rando series. On an unmarked course where they recorded their personal times via the Strava application, Staberg (1 hour, 41 minutes and 46 seconds) and Lyman (1:41:47) finished third and fourth in the nine-skier women’s race behind winner Kate Chapman (1:18:57) and runner-up Katherine Sigerst (1:40:12).