The Colfax Half Marathon and the Rocky Mountain Half Marathon were held three weeks apart. I wanted to take a look to see how many individuals ran both races and how their times compared. First, let’s talk about the differences in the course. The Colfax Half Marathon is super flat, with few hills, while the [...]

Previously, I conducted an analysis of the men’s race and the women’s race, looking at which age had the fastest average Bolder Boulder race times. The 23 year old women and the 20 year old men had the fastest average time. The Bolder Boulder is a great race to do a statistical analysis on because [...]

In a previous post I took a look at at the Bolder Boulder Men’s Citizen Race to see which age ran the fasted time. The men’s 20 year old age group took the prize. Today, I took a look at the 2008 Bolder Boulder Women’s Citizens Race and did the same analysis. Here are the [...]

The Bolder Boulder is one of the largest road races in the country, with 54,000 runners in 2008. It’s a Memorial Day tradition in Colorado that grows larger each year, runners seem immune to the high entry price as they all want to be part of the hysteria. The Bolder Boulder is so large that [...]