Yes, the fun starts today and
who else better to be out here in
the midst of the fun besides me?
Because you all know I like to have
a good time so we'll be heading
to the Expo later on for that.
And then we know Corey will
also be out here this weekend.
But first we have Andrea Andrea as
the CEO with the Colfax Marathon.
Thank you for waking up with us.
I did. I got
up this morning and we didn't
even have to remind you.
Now you all have been crazy
busy. You all just had
something back in October.
Now you all are having your main race,
30,000 people total.
15,000 this weekend,
7 races. It's busy,
it is busy and we are so looking forward
to seeing everybody this weekend.
It's gonna be wonderful. I can't wait.
It is wonderful to see people run
across the city and we've got one
of the most beautiful courses in
the country so we're excited to go
now talk to me or is there
anything different this year?
How excited are you all just to be able
to have your may race back once again?
I know COVID has kind of sidelined
things for the last few years.
First time in three years.
And yes, we do have a few new things.
As a matter of fact.
So when you run this course,
you've got great spectators,
but you also have animals watching
you when you run the half marathon.
This year we have more animals for adding
that we're running by the giraffes,
the zebras, the lions.
So yes, the half marathoners got
a few more things and few are
animals staring at them this year.
That'll be great.
And then on the full marathon
course we add entertainment,
so we have great entertainment as
folks are running across the city.
We have actually part of our entertainers.
We run through a fire station,
the only one in the country to do that.
All the runners run through the
fire stations of the firefighters
are high fiving them.
That's awesome taiko drums.
Lion pole dancers bands.
It's just spectacular,
and one of the things that people love.
They love running through
the home of the Broncos.
You know how many times you
really get to be right along the
field as you're running through?
No, that sounds like a lot of fun and
you know, the one little animal that
we can't forget about that we've seen
welcoming us our more all morning.
The little bunnies that are running around.
Yes, now you have some props.
We have about a minute left. I
wanted to be able to show these since
you brought him out this morning,
you have badges, you have metals.
You have all these things
absolutely. First of all,
I have a couple bibs so you know,
this is what runners are going to be
wearing their first names on them.
So if you're watching the course
yell out and say go Darius, go.
By the way, if you've trained you know
you could come and you can register
at the Expo this weekend and you could
run the marathon half marathon or won
the races area so we're ready for you.
Yeah, and then this is what
you get at the finish line.
So just to give you an idea,
we have the medal of this and this is
for the full marathon of the city.
It's got all the highlights of the city.
Then if you run the half brought
that medal as well, this is awesome.
This is about the only medal I've
ever seen that has a rhino on it.
So because you are running through the zoo,
it's got to have the elements on
the metal so we're very excited
so runners are going to be out.
They're coming to the Expo.
The Expos open today,
one to 8-9 to 5:00 tomorrow so you can kill.
Still come and register.
So register come out and run.
It'll be a great time if you
want to watch the race.
You can go to our website runcolfax.org.
There's a spectator map so
you can come to City Park.
You can come to the stadium lots
of different places you can go out
and watch runners and cheer them on
because it's going to be a great
weekend and I just want to say thanks
to our volunteers ahead of time.
We'll have 1500 volunteers out here
working hard and it's going to be terrific.
I'm really, really excited.
The other thing that's wonderful is
when we watch people cross the finish line.
I have to say if you can come out and
see these folks cross the finish line,
the fact that you make your personal
goal and you're hitting that.
Finish line arms up in the air.
You might be running for a charity is great,
and for us we're about the health
and Wellness piece.
So the fact that you're out there you're
running you're healthy is wonderful.
Cigna actually is our title sponsor.
They're actually going to offer you
free health screenings at the Expo,
so this weekend it's about your
personal goal.
It's about Wellness.
It's about having a really good time.
All the fun that you can have this weekend,
and that's a full rundown for
anyone who's at home for everyone
who's back in the studio.
I mean, it's a lot of excitement,
especially because you all
are having this full event.
Back again for the first time in two years.
So there you all have everything
that you need to know once again
come over to empower field if
you all would still like to sign
up and register Corey Rose.
I hope you have your shoes ready.