Sarah Crouch, whose running career started when she was Sarah Porter of Hockinson, won the women’s citizens race Monday at the annual Bolder Boulder in Colorado.
Crouch has been a professional runner since 2011 and now trains in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., a year of altitude work she hoped would prepare her for the Bolder Boulder.
It worked, as the 24-year-old finished the 10-kilometer (6.2-mile) race in 35 minutes, 11.72 seconds.
She led a field of 24,705 female runners, placing 93rd overall.
Boulder’s Melissa Dock was second in 35:42.22.
“I’ve been training at altitude for a year, so I figured it would be OK to run the race this year, ” Crouch told the Boulder Daily Camera newspaper in an interview posted at http://tinyurl.com/ky7fbwc on YouTube. “It’s my first Boulder Bolder. You don’t really want to run this unless you’ve been at altitude for a while.”
