“To get back to this just feels like we’re getting back to normal, and it feels good to be back.”
With lilac bushes in full bloom near the starting line in City Park, the Colfax Marathon returned to its traditional position as a rite of spring for Colorado runners on Sunday for the first time since the pandemic.
The Colfax Marathon races began in 2006. It was canceled in May 2020 and postponed from May until October in 2021 because of COVID-19. It traditionally ranks as Colorado’s second-largest running event behind the Bolder Boulder Memorial Day 10K. Christa Kamb ran the marathon with two friends to benefit World Vision, a faith-based humanitarian nonprofit that provides clean drinking water in poverty-stricken countries around the world. She quit running during the pandemic.
“It truly broke me because I’m a mother and I had a 3-year-old,” said Mugo, 41. “I had to focus on something that would bring me back to life. Running was always my thing. My goal was, if I can get myself up again, and even just walk, I can be a better mother, a better sister, a better friend, a better partner. So this is a big accomplishment for me, because it’s only been three years.
Tyler McCandless of Fort Collins, who ran the Los Angeles Marathon eight weeks ago and qualified for the 2024 U.S. Olympic marathon trials, won Sunday’s marathon and broke the Colfax record with a time of 2 hours, 21 minutes, 7 seconds. His last race before the pandemic was the 2020 marathon trials in Los Angeles, which attracted massive crowds along the race course. Less than a month later, the world shut down due to COVID.
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