Forsberg had been as much as 10 minutes behind Enman and Spain’s Mirea Miro at the summit. On the women’s side in the Marathon, Sweden’s Emelie Forsberg and Vermont’s Kasie Enman-the 2011 World Mountain Running Champion-sprinted for the finish after racing hard for 25 miles up the mountain and back. ![]() ![]() Nichols finished second (3:47:22), and King was third (3:50:10). Jornet reached the summit first in 2:18:45, and used his seemingly effortless descending skills en route to the finish line to take top honors in 3:40:26. Spaniard Kilian Jornet (pictured, right), 24, who won the 2011 Western States 100 and has won France’s The North Face Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc three times, charged ahead of challengers Alex Nichols of Colorado Springs, and Max King of Bend, Oregon. On Sunday, August 19, 739 runners set out on the Pikes Peak Marathon, climbing the same course as the Ascent, but turning around at the summit to race back down to Manitou Springs. One thousand, six hundred eight seven competitors ran the Ascent. Gates overtook Hafer-and three other runners-in the final miles to finish second, with Hafer finishing third. “I was looking over my shoulder a lot,” said Delany. Delany held off Rickey Gates of San Francisco (2:15:42) and Ryan Hafer of Colorado Springs (2:16:34) for the win. It was Delany’s third time running the race, and after having to stop to stretch aching calves partway through the race, he says he was running on adrenalin to get through the pain. In the men’s race, 32-year-old Jason Delany of Boulder, Colorado beat out a tough field to finish first in 2:13:18. In breaking the record, Cummings will have hiked 658 vertical miles over the course of the past year.įor comparison, The International Space Station floats just 240 miles above the surface of the earth.Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play “So far, it appears that I can, but we don’t know that for sure,” Cummings laughed. Hart Van Denburg/CPR News Sixty-three-year-old Greg Cummings heads up for his second ascent of the day on the Manitou Incline Friday, Nov. He described all of this as further feeding a desire to pull off the Manitou Incline record one more time. He must constantly monitor his insulin and blood sugar during his multiple daily ascents of the trail. On top of that struggle, Cummings has lived with Type 1 diabetes for 38 years. Earlier this year, he was sidelined after a doctor discovered a hairline fracture in his tibia. 29, 2019.Ĭummings said a single hike up the Incline is still difficult for him, in large part because of what all the endless repetitious pounding has been doing to his body. Hart Van Denburg/CPR News Greg Cummings, 63, on the Manitou Incline Friday, Nov. The Manitou Springs website labels the trail's difficulty as “Extreme (we promise we’re not kidding).” The 2,744 railroad tie stairs climb unevenly straight up a mountainside, with the steepest grade listed at 68 degrees. Illegal climbing of the left-over railroad ties led to the Incline eventually becoming an official hiking trail in 2013. It was kept around as a tourist attraction until a 1990 rock slide damaged the track beyond repair. ![]() The Manitou Incline is a former cable car track originally constructed to help with the building of pipelines along Pikes Peak. ![]() Cummings thinks this new record may hold up for awhile, but he said that you never know with Roger.
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