Slacker Half Marathon is next in The La Sportiva Trail Runner Trophy Series
Posted Tuesday, 24 June, 2008
Georgetown, Colo. (June 28, 2008) – Sponsored by La Sportiva, the Trail Runner Trophy Series is the world’s largest off-road running series attracting both elite athletes from around the country and local trail runners. With 121 races held between March 1 to September 30, there is a venue to suite everyone’s needs.
Throughout the series, over 20,000 trail runners will earn points for completing races and bonus points for winning age-group or overall categories. Runners clash in two divisions: (1) marathon and shorter and (2) ultramarathon (races longer than 26.2 miles).
This year the La Sportiva Trail Runner Trophy Series comes to Georgetown, Colo. with the Slacker Half Marathon, a 13.1-mile fast endurance race that is downhill the entire way. The race will be held on June 28 with the start time at 8 a.m. at the Loveland ski area.
Trophy Series participants can earn credits towards mountain-running shoes from La Sportiva and a chance to become an honorary member of the La Sportiva Mountain Running Team. This person will receive four pairs of La Sportiva mountain-running shoes and a team apparel package including socks, headlamp, singlet, t-shirt, shorts, warm-up jacket and headwear.
The top male and female finishers in each age group are awarded prize packages containing products from Original Buff, Trigger Point Therapy, Amphipod, Gore-Tex, Suunto, Pro-Tec Athletics, Moeben Sleeves, GU Energy Gel, GlacierGel, Injinji, Julbo, PowerSox, La Sportiva and Kahtoola. The season’s male and female Trail Runners of the Year in the marathon-and-under and ultramarathon categories will be featured in Trail Runner’s January/February 2009 issue.
Monthly updated Trophy Series points standings, a list of Trophy Series races, press releases, race reports, profiles of past winners and details about the prizes and promotions available only to Trophy Series participants can be found www.trailrunnermag.com.
ABOUT LA SPORTIVA
Celebrating their 80th anniversary, La Sportiva brings a strong alpine mountaineering and climbing heritage to their line of performance mountain footwear. This core experience enables La Sportiva to offer the most versatile technical climbing, mountaineering, Mountain Running® and hiking shoes on the market. For more information on La Sportiva visit www.sportiva.com <http://www.sportiva.com> or go to La Sportiva’s Facebook Page. <http://www.facebook.com/pages/La-Sportiva/6666752426>
About Trail Runner Magazine
As the leading publication for one of North America’s fastest growing sports (40 million participants according to the Outdoor Industry Foundation’s 2006 report), Trail Runner features in-depth editorial and compelling photography that informs, entertains and inspires readers of all ages and abilities to enjoy the outdoors and improve their health and fitness through the sports of trail running, adventure racing and snowshoeing.
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