{"id":103622,"date":"2017-09-11T17:25:55","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T23:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/five-durangoans-set-record-on-colorado-trail\/"},"modified":"2017-09-11T17:25:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T23:25:55","slug":"five-durangoans-set-record-on-colorado-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/five-durangoans-set-record-on-colorado-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Durangoans set record on Colorado Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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From left to right, Brett Sublett, Kyle Curtin, Tate Lagasca, Holden Rennaker and Shaun Burke. The five Durangoans completed a relay run on the Colorado Trail, about 485 miles, in 3 days, 15 hours and 54 minutes.<\/span>Jonathan Romeo\/Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

The gauntlet has been thrown.<\/p>\n

Five Durangoans this weekend completed the first ever round-the-clock relay run on the Colorado Trail, which stretches from Denver to Durango. In the process, they set a record time among all trail users.<\/p>\n

The group completed the 485-mile trek in 3 days, 15 hours, 54 minutes.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no official tally of times set on the Colorado Trail, but the group says their finish time beats a supported runner\u2019s record set earlier this summer at 8 days, 30 minutes, and surpasses even a mountain biker\u2019s record time of 3 days, 20 hours, 46 minutes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was hard,\u201d said Tate Lagasca, 23.<\/p>\n

The group started at the Waterton Canyon trailhead outside of Denver at midnight Thursday, with Holden Rennaker, 26, taking the first shift, completing about 17 miles. They then used a shuttle of two cars to keep switching out runners along the way.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was like a game of leap frog,\u201d said Kyle Curtin, 30.<\/p>\n

For the next three days, the group endured little sleep and long bouts of running. They were aided by the light of a nearly full moon, but that didn\u2019t stop the mind playing tricks at night.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe wildlife at night was probably the scariest part,\u201d Rennaker said.<\/p>\n

The group finished Sunday afternoon. In total, individual mileage: Curtin (108 miles), Rennaker (106 miles), Lagasca (101 miles), Shaun Burke, 30, (100 miles) and Brett Sublett (70 miles).<\/p>\n

Sublett, 51, said he came up with the idea to complete the relay on the Colorado Trail when thinking about similar races, which usually occur on roads.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to apply the same concept on trails,\u201d Sublett said. \u201cThe Colorado Trail seemed like a good place to start.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though the group holds the record for relay running on the Colorado Trail, they\u2019re ready for challengers, they said while taking a much-deserved rest at the Junction Creek trailhead in Durango, the end of the Colorado Trail.<\/p>\n

Sublett said one of the reasons they organized the relay run was the hope it would kick start a friendly competition between other trail running towns.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re hoping it inspires people to try and beat that,\u201d Sublett said.<\/p>\n

jromeo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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