Images of the St. Vrain Invitational

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The day's races begin with Kiah Leonard in the lead. She would keep that lead.

A little abs work before the race, but I imagine that cord across her back wasn't very comfortable.

There's more to coaching than writing workouts.

"smithmonster" is his handle.

Here's an idea of how dusty it was three-quarters of the way through the pack. I've done a little photo editing on most of these pictures to clear the dust, but left this one alone to give a clearer picture of just what is was like on the dustier parts of the course.

Apparently, fast is fun even on your cool down run.

Erin McLaughlin, full stride. Every runner should have a picture of themselves like this.

About the point in the race where the team battle started to heat up.

For the better part of a mile, nobody wanted to take the lead...

a situation whi...