As I was looking through some images on my hard drive I found some which I took at the Colfax Marathon this past May.  Held on a Sunday morning less than 12 hours after I returned from Las Vegas , it was a short amount of time at home prior to the 6am start of the race.

This year the marathon and half-marathon had different routes based on feedback from the runners in past years. The main change was the start and end of both races are now located in Denver’s City Park .

After the signal for the start of the race the runners headed through City Park and the marathon participants went west towards Lakewood to later make their way through the streets of downtown Denver and back into City Park.  The half-marathon participants headed east on Colfax towards Aurora. At first I concentrated my location in City Park, but after the first few half-marathon racers finished I decided to go downtown and found a few racers heading down 17th.  I walked from Broadway the length of 17th northwest towards Union Station and finally settled for a spot on the corner across from the station to capture the runners heading by on their final few miles of the race.  Spending an hour in downtown Denver on a nice May morning was nice and quiet, and sitting on the pavement I was able to capture some images of the runners.  During the time situated in downtown, I found some of the runners were quite serious while others flexed their muscles for the camera as they continued to make their way to the finish line.

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A marathon runner heads past Union Station on their way through downtown Denver during the 2008 Colfax Marathon.