Even if you haven’t trained, there’s plenty of time to gear up for Monday morning’s Bolder Boulder. Heck, it’s only 10k. You could run it on Ambien. You just have to find ways to make it comfortable and fun.
Head to Boulder today. They still have some rooms at the sparkling St. Julien Hotel & Spa. You can stay there tonight, have a special runner’s dinner at Jill’s restaurant, a runner’s gift pack and late checkout – for $185 for the two of you, cheaper if some rooms loosen up.
And every day of the week you can take one of Banjo Billy’s Bus Tours. It’s a hillbilly shack on wheels. Inside it has six saddles, four La-Z-Boys, some couches, 13 disco balls and a rubber chicken. Tour leader John Georgis, a.k.a. Banjo Billy, says it “reeks of Boulder. It’s kinda funky, it’s kinda weird.” His special Bolder Boulder tour includes a tribute to Boulder’s Olympic marathon champion Frank Shorter. Check it out at banjobilly.com.
And the winner isn’t
As Jerry Seinfeld said about the NY Marathon, “Ah, what’s to see? A woman from Norway, a guy from Kenya and 20,000 losers.”
Volunteers of America’s Jim White knows what it’s like to lose. He was the dead last runner at last week’s Colorado Colfax Marathon. It was lonely at the finish line after six-plus hours.
“It was glorious,” he says. “Somebody has to be last. But it’s hard to set a personal best when you’re standing on every corner pushing the button to make the light change.”
Hunter
The Woody Creeker, Anita Thompson’s Aspen-based magazine published in the spirit of her late husband, Hunter S.
Thompson, is out with its second issue.
It has grown from 32 pages to 44 pages. “60 Minutes” man Ed Bradley is interviewed by attorney Hal Haddon. Jimmy Ibbotson waxes on music. George Stranahan contributes a photograph and some commentary. His daughter, Molly Stranahan, tells of growing up in Woody Creek. And there’s news that the Woody Creek Caucus met at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Woody Creek Store.
Ace in the place
The day after he was bumped from the TV show, Colorado crooner Ace Young told me he was coming home this summer in the “American Idols Live Tour.” Then the sked came out, and Denver wasn’t on it. Now it is.
The show was so popular, 20 new concerts were added this week, making it a 59-date tour starting July 5 in New Hampshire. The kids hit the Pepsi Center in Denver on Sept. 5.
The show will feature the top 10 finalists in “American Idol,” fittingly sponsored by Pop Tarts. Tix on sale now.
City spirit
The Dixie Chicks swagger into the Pepsi Center Sept. 24, tix on sale 10 a.m. June 3 at Ticketmaster … The Sept. ’04 wedding of Kevin Costner to Christine Baumgartner came down at his Aspen ranch – lavishly recorded in celeb mags. Now Us Weekly reports that they’re living separately because Baumgartner’s still furious about Costner’s reported misbehavior during a massage while on his honeymoon in Scotland … Sez who: “A dork is a dork is a dork.” Judy Markey
Bill Husted’s column appears Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Husted also appears Tuesdays and Fridays on “Good Day Colorado” on Fox 31. You can reach him at 303-820-1486 or at bhusted@denverpost.com.
