Colorado!

Happy Solstice!

Published June 21, 2019

Happy Solstice!

Bring on the SUN (please). Summer concerts. BBQ. Potato salad. Chips, pickles.

ICE CREAM! We ALL scream for ice cream🍦🌞

Cold rainy season start in Colorado – NOT curbing my enthusiasm.

Thursday nite LOVE in Community Park. Hazel Miller Band. FREE summer tunes & FOOD TRUCK barbecue. Kicked back on a blanket, ate BIG & counted clouds – on a ‘school’ nite. Sum-sum-summertime.

Friday, Louisville Street Faire. Downtown LOVE.

Every Friday nite, June thru August (Memorial Day to Labor Day). Live music, FOOD, local vendors. More BBQ, two summer scoops of Sweet Cow and Austin band Wild Child. Dig my Colorado hometown ❤️

Midsummer Festival tomorrow in Estes. Scandinavian maypole, strudel & schnitzel.

I declare SUMMER. Let the games begin!

: summer concert season

: FOOD TRUCK barbecue

: Community Park, Louisville

: Hazel Miller Band

: Thursday nite LOVE

: downtown Hometown

: Lulu’s BBQ

: summer FRIDAY

: Austin-band Wild Child

: 2 scoops of Sweet Cow

Friends, Family, Community and the Magic of Live Music

For three or four hours, eight summertime Friday evenings, life is just like it should be. Babies don’t cry, dogs don’t bark, and wise elders feel nineteen again. The Muse visits the musicians pretty much every night and dances when the spirit moves her. We don’t know why this all happens here, we’re just glad it does.

JUNE 21 Wild Child

Austin-based, seven-piece pop mini-orchestra, has carried its infectious blend of indie-pop and catchy melodies across the international music scene, charting viral hits and wrapping their arms around a diverse and dedicated fan base.

Hazel Miller Band, Community Park

Wild Child, Louisville Street Faire

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Bolder Boulder 2019

Published May 27, 2019

Memorial Day 2019

Today we REMEMBER. Honoring those who Serve & Protect.
Today we CELEBRATE our democracy/our freedom. USA – Land of the Free, Home of the Brave.

After last year’s FUN RUN experience, vowed I’d never miss another Bolder Boulder. Memorial Day Monday, a Colorado tradition. Unfortunately, no convincing my neighbor to run 2019’s 10k – HA! – but me, alarm set, run shorts ready, RTD Bus to the Start.

Ran my first Bolder Boulder 2001 (almost 20 years ago) – long before I Colorado rooted. I knew, this place, somehow, someday.

7:13am. With so much marathoning in my life schedule, didn’t bother uploading a qualifying wave time. It’s a 10k, a FUN RUN – with 41,000 of my Colorado besties. HUGE! Super organized. Amazed how seamless this event kicks. Well done, Boulder 🇺🇸

Tight first mile. Legs stiff after yesterday’s near 7 hour, 50K elevation climb in Vedauwoo. But miles 2, 3, 4, 5 – Front Range Flatirons surrounded – the JOY was there. sub-8:30/min pace. Picked off ‘EA’ & ‘E’ wave runners, worked my way thru the double D’s.

Won’t have to worry ‘bout qualifying next year. Yep, already registered: May 25, 2020. Mark your calendar. Better yet – come to Boulder & run America’s BIGGEST BEST 10k, the Bolder Boulder. LOVE this place, this race! Gotta/hafta/MUST RUN ❤️

BOLDERBoulder

May 27, 2019 in Boulder, CO

EB100 KEENAN HAGA 8:18 8:25 8:33 8:31 8:23 9:11 53:40

Number of finishers: 41,197

Number of females: 21,676

Number of males: 19,521

Average time: 1:21:52

: we RUN, we REMEMBER

: ‘EB’ Wave Start

: 7:13 Mountain Time

: course SUMMIT 5,391ft

: CU Stadium FINISH

: a Colorado tradition

: LOVE this race ❤️

: our Flatirons, whatta VIEW!

: mark your CALENDAR 😊

Memorial Day 2019

: black bean SALSA – YUM!

: bring on SUMMER 🌞

: holiday HIKE

: phantom Thad (only seen in pictures, fake cat?)

: wounded Warrior

Bolder Boulder 2019

2019 EB100 KEENAN HAGA 53:40

2018 FB501 KEENAN HAGA 1:14:29.24

2014 DA255 K R HAGA 48:26

2013 DA218 K R HAGA 51:24

2009 H721 Keenan Haga 53:51

2007 JC370 Keenan Haga 57:34

2002 CA217 Keenan Haga 51:28

2001 CC373 K R HAGA 49:38

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Colfax Marathon

Published May 19, 2019

Touchdown in Denver. Home, well…almost. Broncos Stadium for bib pickup, 2-marathon weekend. Friday in CT, Sunday morning in Colorado’s capital city. Colfax, Denver’s only FULL marathon. HUGE Expo, but I’ve done this before. Finished the Colfax Half – in 2013. Was my last ‘big’ run before Marathon UNO, in Alaska. Lifetime ago.

Early to bed, early to rise. 6am start in City Park. Off-street parking before 5. Shower, walk the pup, hour drive to Denver – math check, that’s ‘middle-of-the-night’ early.

PERFECT run weather. Rain afternoon-delayed, no SNOW ’til morning. Week out from Memorial Day holiday, chilly 39 degrees Start. Nice! Glad I wore sleeves. LOL>

BIG city race. Feelin’ good. Aside from the long stretch down Colfax, FULL marathoners run a lap inside Mile High Stadium. Now that’s cool, huh. Go Broncos!

Stepped BACK a corral (G on my bib), lined with the 4:45 pace party. Elevation, body recovery (CT, 2 short days ago). Hoped to hang thru mile 15. Finish with a smile 😊

Slow & steady. Tight first mile. Pic snapped the Capitol Dome. Pacer stick on my left, 4 of us from the Start. Pacer Greg (last month, Big Sur & Boston), Brian from Hartford CT (what are the chances?) & Maredith (2018 100-MILE finisher). My Colfax family, next handful of hours. Easy comfortable pace. Talked briefly/intermittently, mostly listening.

12 miles. Greg (with the stick) says he’s supposed to hand off the baton. He’d catch up with us. Whaaaat? HE’S the pace bunny, we’re the flock. Never ever. Picked up another marathoner, run introductions – and we’re 4 again, crossing the Half. No pacer, no bunny.

PACE GROUP finish

14 miles. Porta-potty stop. Afraid to slow, lose my group. Efficient in-n-out (like Shalane Flanagan at Boston, just like that) Warned them I’d go dark by 18, abandon all mile 20. Appreciated their company. Only Sis’ been able to master the voices.

18 miles. Upbeat positive. Legs good, breathing easy. Didn’t go quiet for two miles. Tried to say goodbye at 22. Aid station stopped. Pollyann’ers kept cheer-leading.

ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT! But I’m NOT talking, can’t make me talk.

LAST mile. Really really really wanted to walk. Pace-group peer pressure. Happy endorphin over-achievers. Bridge. Late hill. Kinda all a blur. Happy talk in the ears, evil Mordor in my head. AND…we’ve sped up AGAIN, sub-9 minute now.

4 STRONG FINISH! Crossed together. 4:45 pace group, start-to-finish. Complete strangers ‘til today. Group SMILE. Crossed EIGHT minutes early.

Colfax FAMILY photo. LOVE LOVE my run community. Super supportive folks.

DIG being Colorado local. Pasta, hot shower & Pup – just an hour away.

Wyoming next Sunday, 50 State FINISH week after. Happy LIFE ❤️