 You know what today is? Today is my very favorite day in Boulder, Colorado. I have been running this race since I was six years old. Just a wee little boy. And from that very moment, I knew that I loved running and I love this race and I love the energy and I love the community. This race was started in 1979 by the great Frank Shorter. I would have run it that year but I was just born so I was a little too small. I've actually already run the race today. So I'm gonna go through it again right now with the camera and show you all the best of this race. Slip and slides and all the fun stuff and I'm not gonna do it alone. I have your very favorite person with me here today. Look, it's Amelia Boone. Hello. How you doing Amelia? I'm fantastic. Did you already run? I did already run. How'd it go? It was fantastic. It was a lot faster than I'm used to running so but it's a different kind of pain. Yeah. I like it. Amelia's used to those long 100 mile races. This is only 6.2 miles. Yeah. But she ran fast. She ran like 41 minutes. What? Okay, we're talking too much. Let's get in there. Come on. Let's do it. Right on. However you wanna get there, we'll see you at the finish line. You'll notice that there's a lot of people here. Usually about 50,000 people run the Boulder Boulder. It's one of the biggest road races in the entire United States. Right here in Little Old Boulder. Look at this. Your official starters this morning, your very first Boulder Boulder run in 1979. Did it roll? Yes. Okay. And it's going to now. Yeah. Now. And this was Amelia's very first time running the Boulder Boulder. It was actually my second road race ever. She usually sticks to dirt. Y'all look amazing. Way to go. Woo. Yeah. Woo. Here we go. Every year I do this race, a rush of childhood memories come back to me. And it makes me happy that I'm still able to do it at age 44. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh, yeah. The weather is perfect here today. Like 75 degrees. It's my favorite. How's it going? You know, I interned at KBCO radio when I was in college. I love these guys. Love you Keeper. One mile. I'm not awesome at math, but I think I've done this race 33 times. I started when I was six and I've only missed it three times. Twice when I was in Honduras in the Peace Corps. Another time when I was in Europe working. Then it didn't happen for two years during the pandemic. Do a little math. I think that equals 33. High shadows. That bathroom line looks rough. Oh, man. That's a long line, man. Just pee in your pants. Yes, yes. The best advice all day. We're now running the first hill of the race. Up Folsom. You know, we're used to trail ultras where there's some like mountains to run up and over, but these are still hard. There's no doubt. When you're running fast, super hard. You got this. Yeah. You're awesome. Hey, good job. You guys are gonna be drinking a lot now. Yeah. Occasionally there's bubble water in the air. You know what we're coming up on? What are we coming up on? We're coming up on the belly dancers. They've been here since I was a kid. They're legendary. So I have really good memories of running down this hill right here. I used to live right here at Folsom and Valmont, and my mom would come out and take photos of me. So I have lots of photos when I was a little dude screaming down this hill. Elvis is always right here. This is his spot. Well, mama, she done told me. Papa done told me to you. Son, I got your feeling when she ain't here. She's amazing. This is gonna take us a long time. But that's okay. Oh, water. Free water, free water. I'm more tired from yelling and screaming and cheering than running. I can't tell. You guys having fun? Into the neighborhoods. When I'm racing this race, this is the hardest part of the course. There's lots of turns, little bit uphill. You're coming off the high of starting out fast. So this is usually my slowest mile. But now that we're just having fun, it's gonna be the funnest mile. Oh yeah. Oh yeah, it's just, just get it to me, just get it to me. Ah, thank you. Ha ha, I feel so good. You're all doing awesome. Yeah, keep it up, keep it up. There we go, yeah, right? Ooh, that's nice to wash the sweat off. Traffic jam in the neighborhoods. Here's another fun Ryan Van Duzer fact. That's where I went to elementary school. Columbine Elementary. Dancing those bubbles. Hey, look, everybody, 4K. Kids with squirt guns, kids with squirt guns. Yeah, here we go, right in the head. Oh yeah, thank you, thank you, thank you. This is one of my favorites on the course right here. I love you. Good to see you. Have fun, have fun, thanks for cheering us on. Let's celebrate. Yeah. We're here at mile three with Bitsy Carlson, my health teacher at Boulder High School. You taught me everything about health, thank you. So look at, look how healthy I am. Drug sex and violence, you get it all. Ha ha ha ha ha. 5K, 5K, 5K. I say Boulder, you say Boulder, Boulder, Boulder. Oh yeah, good, hurdle, hurdle, hurdle, hurdle. Nice job, nice job, what's the next obstacle? Let me go. Okay. I should be good at this, I'm an obstacle racer. Hop on one foot, everybody's gotta hop. Hop, hop, hop, hop, hop, that's hard. That'll tire you out, it's worth the wait. Okay, Amelia. The thing about this race is you kind of get more and more energized as it goes. Because of all the people on the side of the course, all the fun, all the music, all the goofballs, you're all looking awesome. You got this. Yeah. So I just made friends with a fella from Austin, Texas. Hey. What do you think, it's your first time, how's it going? First time actually in the Boulder, Boulder, and I love it. There's just so much positivity, just the communities out here just supporting you and motivating you. I always worried about losing my breath, you know, because I come from a thousand feet elevation. To be honest with you, I didn't train at all for this. You know, I'm just feeding off of the love man. Welcome to Boulder, welcome to Boulder, high five. We're coming up on the hardest part of the course. This is mile four, it's the Casey Hill, Casey Middle School's right up here. This is the highest point of the Boulder, Boulder. I think it's 5,391 feet. Oh yeah, I had a feel when you raced it. Oh man, you like look at that hill and you're like, ugh, don't slow down. It's too strange, a tragic sound boy making. What's up guys? This is my buddy Gabe right here. He facilitates the happy Thursday cruisey ride, no big deal. Yeah, you know, it's Thursday in our hearts. It might be Monday, Sunday, or whatever else, but to us, it'll always be a happy Thursday. This is what you've been training for. Here we go people, you got this. Come on, Casey Hill, boom, boom, yeah, stop everybody. Way to go, you got to the top of the hill, woo. All right everybody, it's downhill all the way. Downhill all the way, I promise. Only two miles to go. There goes Amelia Boone, she's making her move. She's making her move. You're looking great, you're looking great. You got this, you got this. This is it, this is it. This is what you came for. We are now right next to the famous Pearl Street Mall. I wanna show you really quickly the Boulder Theater. It's one of the best buildings in Boulder. We're gonna go off course a little bit. Here's another fun Ryan Van Duzer fact. I went to my senior prom in that building and my mom drove us, she was our chauffeur. I dressed her up in a tuxedo. It was awesome, mom's a good sport. Maybe we'll find mom out here. Let's catch mom. Let's go find mom. Has anybody seen my mom? She has gray hair, kinda silver, white. This is Pearl Street Mall right here, I'm gonna show you. This is our awesome pedestrian mall right here. Look at that, it's so cool. Lots of good stuff happens on Pearl Street. Hello my friend. Ploppy guy. How you doing? Ploppy guy, Boulder, Boulder. Awesome, you're amazing. Yeah, good job, you're almost at mile five, you got this. So when you're running around Boulder, it's pretty common to run into elite athletes. We've got Scott Jerk right here, how you doing buddy? Good, I'm doing good. Good, we got Jenny Jerk. Awesome. But the star of the Jerk family today was one and only, Raven, how you doing? Was this your first Boulder, Boulder? Yes. How was it? Yeah, it was good. It was so good, did you have so much fun? Yes. Good, I'm so proud of you. What old are you? Yeah, how old are you, Raven? Six. Six years old, and you ran 6.2 miles. How old were you two the first time you ran it? I was six years old, so now, you can be just like me and run for the rest of your life. What? Cupcakes? Joker, we got the Joker. Go Nuggets. Go Nuggets. In the finals, no big deal, we're gonna win. We only got two Ks to go. What's up, what's up, you ready? You ready? Let's do this. You're doing great, you're doing great. Keep it up, keep it up. You're such a cutie. What inspired you to bring it out here? It's a Boulder, Boulder, you have to. You have to bring a llama to the Boulder, Boulder. You don't bring a Boulder, it's Boulder. Llama, llama, llama, llama, llama. We just turned on the Folsom. It's pretty much a straight shot all the way to the stadium, just a quick right turn and then we're home. We're so close, we're so close. Hey Bob, how you doing? Good job everybody. I'm so proud of all of you. I know we don't know each other very well, but I know you put a lot of effort into today. Your hair looks so good. Your outfits on point. When I was a kid, this building right here was dunking donuts and I loved it. My dad would take us there on Sunday morning. Now it's a weed shop. No more donuts. You're awesome, you're awesome. You're part of the race where you really have to dig deep. Whew, you just run almost six miles at this point. The point two is in the stadium, a little stadium lat. And it hurts, there's no doubt. Whatever speed you're going. Hey Brad, how's it going buddy? This is Adam. Adam, how you doing? You're awesome. Doing it. I love you Boulder, Boulder. Go dudes, your snacks. Oh yeah buddy. Thank you, yes. You're doing great, you're doing great. We got this. We got this. Up the hill. Up the hill, up the hill. Right on into Folsom Field, where the CU Buffaloes play. It's prime time, baby. Once you get into the stadium, you get to run on this like bouncy material that just like feels like you're floating. This is the Boulder High marching band. Boulder High, that's where I went to school in class of 1997. All right, let's go. This is it, this is it. I don't want to be shitting. I just lost a friend. Oh, this is the best part of the race. I love it, it feels so good. Thank you, Boulder, Boulder, for being so awesome, for being such a big part of my life, for setting me off on a course of running and community. And I'm so glad Amelia got to experience this. Yes. We found my mom. She was just too fast for us. She finished. Hey mom, how's it going? How'd you do? Good. Hi mom. Hi, how are you? How was your race? It was good. Awesome. We had a great race. You know, my mom let me do this when I was six years old. That's what started it all. She was like, just meet me in the lost and found after the race, right? Right, right. And we figured it out. The Boulder, Boulder, thank you so much for following along. I hope you enjoyed it. I hope you come out here next year and run with all of us because we don't have enough people doing this race. We need a few more like you. So please like and subscribe and I will see you down the road. Like and subscribe. And look at these cute kids. Look at these cute kids. Hey buddy. Those are my brothers, the cute kids. 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