A classic Colorado runner with new-school tendencies and an admittedly bad Coloradan, albeit in reform, won the 2020 Pikes Peak Marathon on Sunday.
Seth DeMoor, a 35-year-old from Englewood, is the type of runner people can expect to find in Colorado. He grew up in Buena Vista watching his dad, Joe, race on Pikes Peak in the ‘90s and has a video blog dedicated to his trail running with nearly 100,000 subscribers. After finishing second in the 2019 Ascent — the 2020 race was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic — DeMoor decided to enter his first Pikes Peak Marathon and won the race in 3 hours, 36 minutes and 31 seconds, a record for the 35-39 age group.
“I’ve always wanted to do the marathon. This is my first one for Pikes Peak,” DeMoor said. “I’ve done the Ascent, I think, three or four times, and it turned out to work out well because of the Ascent being canceled, and the marathon was on. So that was good.”
Brittany Charboneau, of Denver, has some Colorado credibility to gain, though her 4:25:21 finish to win in the women’s race should help her cause.
“So, I’m a native Coloradan, and I came here ... I’ve never been to Pikes Peak. Never,” she said.
“I have been the world’s worst Coloradan up until the last year and a half because I was never on trails, like (I) wanted no part of trails because I just was like afraid of nature and I didn’t like the mountains. I just started getting into trail (running) last year.”
Though they both took Barr Trail from Manitou Springs through the forest and up to the summit, DeMoor and Charboneau took different paths to victory.
DeMoor owned a six-minute lead when he turned around just shy of the under-construction summit house and held off David Sinclair (Truckee, Calif.) on the descent, winning by less than two minutes.
“I’m an uphill runner. Not as good on the downhill,” he said. “So David almost caught me.”
Boulder’s Andy Wacker was third in 3:44:58.
Charboneau trailed Allie McLaughlin by roughly 40 seconds at the turnaround and made her pass in the final five miles of the descent.
“(McLaughlin) went out hard,” Charboneau said. “Like she just crushed it, and I was like ‘nope, there’s no way I can keep up with her.’”
McLaughlin, an Air Academy High School graduate, reportedly took a spill on the downhill (she had bloody knees) and finished third. Golden’s Ashley Brasovan was second, nearly 10 minutes behind Charboneau. Sunday’s win helped Charboneau start her trail racing career with three wins in as many races. Road races were her first discipline. She placed 13th in the Olympic marathon trials this spring where she hardly has to worry about wildlife.
“When I started doing some trails, we were on the local trails in Denver and there’s rattlesnakes like crazy, so that was a big one. Then, I’m terrified of mountain lions; I’m terrified of bears and I’m also like afraid of marmots,” Charboneau said. “Like in the FKT (fastest known time event) a couple of weeks ago, I thought they were like big cats or something, but they were just marmots.”
She said she listens to podcasts and music to put her at ease on the trails. Should she need any additional advice, she now has a fellow Pikes Peak Marathon winner as a possible resource.
“I have a daily running vlog on YouTube, so if anyone wants to go watch the race footage, they can go watch that,” DeMoor said, noting he’s hoping for a spike in views and subscribers after the win.
Former Palmer Ridge runner making a name for himself on Pikes Peak
Kieran Nay, a 2018 graduate of Palmer Ridge High School, entered his first Pikes Peak Marathon with lofty expectations Sunday.
Top five would’ve been an ideal outcome, top 10 and faster than four hours was the more realistic goal, but he settled for 15th and a 4:17:01 finish after some lingering wildfire smoke cause him some problems.
“Honestly, it felt better above tree line than it did below tree line,” the Western Colorado University student said. “You just couldn’t take the deep breaths.”
Nay, 21, started his college career on NCAA-sanctioned cross country and track and field teams but gave up his spot to tackle the trails.
“I left so I could go get my ass kicked in races like this,” he joked afterward.
While it may not have been the finish he dreamed of, it wasn’t without positives. He was third among runners under 25.
“I’ve got a lot of training time to make up on some of these guys who are finishing ahead of me,” Nay said. “It’s good to keep that perspective, and I’ll definitely be back next year, for sure.”
Brittany Charboneau wins the women’s marathon. As expected, no records broken today. @CSGazetteSports @gazettepreps pic.twitter.com/URTfjiQmJu
— Vinny Benedetto (@VBenedetto) August 23, 2020
DeMoor (white shirt) watches Andy Whacker finish third in the marathon. DeMoor is the 2020 Pikes Peak Marathon winner (still working on getting an official time). @CSGazetteSports @csgazette pic.twitter.com/wG7iCemkGJ
— Vinny Benedetto (@VBenedetto) August 23, 2020
Seth DeMoor (@SethJamesDeMoor) is first to the summit in a little over 2 hours, 10 minutes. @CSGazetteSports pic.twitter.com/7x1h4HiMqc
— Vinny Benedetto (@VBenedetto) August 23, 2020
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