Not going to write much here, but will just throw in some pictures from the Bolder Boulder. My son Nick and I did it…. I walked, he ran. He did about 58 minutes… not bad for not training for it. I walked it in 1:45:36, roughly 17 minute miles. I didn’t really stop to take the pictures, so they may be a little fuzzy at times.
It’s a fun race for people of all levels, with lots of entertainment to watch along the way…. both from people on the sidelines and from participants in the race. There were about 55,000 participants this year.
Son Nick ready to go
Milling around waiting for our wave to start
starting line
Official starter
and we’re off…
The Blues Brothers
Blues Brothers Everybody Needs Somebody youtube
Banana boy entertained us along the way
end of mile one
one of many bands playing along the way
cooling off with the hose
entertaing spectators
the first water stop
Belly dancers
an obscured Elvis
an obscured Elvis # 2
Irish step dancers
more dancers
5 kilometers — halfway done
Wires Crossed — sounded really good!
Wires Crossed Good Girl youtube
Nick agreed that it sounds like this young band has potential. He probably passed by them about 2 hours before I did. It must take a lot of stamina for all the bands out there playing!
It’s all downhill from here (I wish)
Weird Al is coming to town
mysterious masked man
mysterious masked man # 2
Goonies
Fairies
walking for a cause
bagpipes and drums
Frank Shorter
Frank Shorter wiki
As far as I know, he still lives in Boulder.
almost there
entering the stadium
spectators and earlier finishers
and the crowd cheers for The Longmont Streetwalker…
… or so I imagined!!
This was my first “real” look at the Bolder Boulder and I had no idea they had such entertaining side shows and characters! (Whimsy is good!) Thanks for taking the time to post all the photos!
Frank Shorter was the co-founder of the Bolder Boulder.