Join us in 2025 as we celebrate 70 years of running Pikes Peak!
Pikes Peak Marathon
  • Home
  • Registration
    • Marathon
    • Ascent
    • Garden To Peak Challenge
    • Elite Competitors
  • Results
  • Race Info
    • Race Week Schedule
    • Course Info
    • Rules
    • Awards & Prize Money
  • Plan
    • Training
    • Visiting
  • Get Involved
    • Join the PPM Team
    • Volunteer
    • Partners
    • Expo/Vendor
  • Merchandise
  • News
    • Press
    • Blog
  • Contact
  • Home
  • Registration
    • Marathon
    • Ascent
    • Garden To Peak Challenge
    • Elite Competitors
  • Results
  • Race Info
    • Race Week Schedule
    • Course Info
    • Rules
    • Awards & Prize Money
  • Plan
    • Training
    • Visiting
  • Get Involved
    • Join the PPM Team
    • Volunteer
    • Partners
    • Expo/Vendor
  • Merchandise
  • News
    • Press
    • Blog
  • Contact

Blog

Partner Corner ~ Pikes Peak Road Runners

6/3/2021

PPRR ~ A Reintroduction

We have trail races, too

Picture
We want to encourage our local runners to consider joining PPRR, a 1,700-member volunteer-run club that has been putting on races in the area since 1976. PPRR Membership comes with perks such as discounts at local running stores and for registration in PPRR events, plus you'll get an award-winning newsletter delivered to your mailbox every month. 
Click here to join or to get more information.

The Pikes Peak Ascent and Marathon as well as the Garden of the Gods races have long been associated with the Pikes Peak Road Runners (PPRR). PPRR has provided support for these races in a variety of ways with finish line, result coordination, and volunteers.  PPRR has been the primary running club for the Pikes Peak area since 1976.
PPRR's Mission: “To cultivate health and fitness in the Pikes Peak region through a community of runners and friends.”


An all-volunteer run club, PPRR is dedicated to promoting and organizing running events in the Pikes Peak Region and surrounding Colorado areas. Just like with many non-for-profit organizations, PPRR has experienced a decline in membership during this past pandemic year. However, PPRR is gaining steam this spring with their monthly Nielsen 2 Mile Challenge, Woody’s Tortoise and Hare Predict Run, and the Women’s Distance Festival.
​
If you are not already a member or perhaps your membership has lapsed, consider joining PPRR. We would love to have you! Here are the benefits of being a PPRR member.
  • Information – The PPRR website (www.pprrun.org) includes an event calendar of all area races, information on training groups, current and historical race results, and links to other sites and articles.
  • Insight - Monthly newsletter provides race calendar, results and running tips
  • Bargains - Members receive discounts at local running stores and at PPRR sponsored races.
  • Community – Interact with other runners through training, racing, and giving back with volunteering in a variety of ways such as the monthly trail clean up.
  • Road Runners Club of America Membership.
  • Adventure - Fall Series of 4 incremental races leads runners through city parks seldom seen by others.
  • Suspense - Winter Series offers a short and long series of 4 increasingly longer races. Weather, hills and altitude keep runners intrigued.
  • Challenge - Nielson Challenge 2-mile run enables runners to check training progress the first Saturday of each month.
Membership is open to all those who share the goals of the PPRR. You can join using our Membership Form, or join the club using a credit card using our online membership system with RunSignup.com. 



Comments are closed.
Picture
​441 Manitou Ave, Suite 100
​Manitou Springs, CO 80829

Fun Fact!

In 1972 Peter Strudwick did the Ascent in 4:20:29 and the Marathon in 7:02:28. What is so incredible about that you ask? Well, soon after his mother had caught rubella, commonly called German measles, Peter was born with legs that ended in stumps just past the ankles, a left arm that had only one thumb and a finger, and a right arm ending at the wrist.
When Zebulon Pike tried to ascend the mountain that would later be named after him he was turned back by the harsh weather. Many claim he said that no one would ever reach its summit. However, it is generally accepted that he meant on that day, under those conditions. The snow was waist deep and his men were not dressed for it and were out of food.
“Militant tobacco-hating physician” Dr. Arne Suominen from Delray Beach FL, became the founder of the modern day Pikes Peak races when he wrote a letter to the Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce in 1956 and challenged cigarette smokers to race him up and down Pikes Peak. 1956 Results
Picture
Picture

    NewsLetter

Subscribe to Newsletter
© Pikes Peak Marathon