PINKHAM NOTCH, N.H.—Runners from Colorado have won the men’s and women’s categories in this year’s Mount Washington Road Race up the highest peak in the Northeast.
Thirty-year-old Rickey Gates of Woody Creek finished the 7.6-mile course Saturday in 1 hour, 1 minute and 32 seconds. Gates also won in 2009 at a time of 59:58.
Twenty-seven-year-old Kim Dobson of Denver reached the 6,288-foot summit in 1 hour, 12 minutes and 11 seconds.
This year’s race, the 51st, took place without either the men’s or women’s defending champion. Chris Siemers of Arvada, Colo., and Shewarge Amare (Sheh-WAR’-guh AM’-are-ay) of Ethiopia couldn’t make it.
In all, 893 runners finished. The Mount Washington Auto Road gains 4,727 feet in altitude. The final 70 yards rises at a 22 percent grade to the finish.
