After beginning the season in Dillon for the Scrap Yard Scramble last month, Race Breck moved its Summit Trail Running Series to Breckenridge for the B&B Bolt on Wednesday, June 4.

Being staged out the of the B&B Trailhead, runners of all ages climbed into the hills that lie above French Gulch Road before crashing back down to the finish line in the parking lot to the trail.

Like all Race Breck running races, the evening of competition featured both a short-course and a long-course race.

The short-course race consisted of a 3.7-mile loop with close to 500 feet of climbing. From the beginning of the race, Jeff Cuno and Breckenridge’s Lukas Remeikis battled to be the first runner across the finish line.

After testing one another throughout the early parts of the race, it was eventually Cuno who crossed the finish line as the champion. Cuno crossed the finish line in 24 minutes, 8 seconds with Remeikis, 15, taking second in 25:39.

Not long after Remeikis finished the race, Silverthorne’s Cooper Levi, 15, rounded out the podium by taking third overall in 26:20. Levi was followed by Frisco’s Crosby Hume in fourth (26:47) and Breckenridge’s Danny Butler in fifth (28:31).

Emma Wood was the first female runner to finish the race, completing the short-course race distance in a time of 28:31. Wood placed sixth overall and was followed by the second overall women, Kasey Sutherlin, in seventh place (30:14).

Scott Siriano of Dillon finished in eighth (30:29), Emmett Bailey took ninth (31:12) and Haley Zipperer placed 10th overall (31:24).

The top 15 was rounded out by several more talented Summit County runners. Katie Middleton took 11th (32:49), Dillon’s Lucia Templeton took 12th (33:59), Adrienne Rynes finished in 13th (35:33), Mark Thomas placed 14th (36:17) and Breckenridge’s Gloria Greenstein finished in 15th (26:27).

The 7.5-mile, 1,116-foot long-course race was spearheaded by Breckenridge’s John Rauen. Leaning on the fitness he built over the World Cup ski mountaineering season, Rauen took the reins of the race early on and did not let up until he had crossed the finish line.

Rauen won the long-course race by a little over four minutes in a time of 58:50. Jared Burris took second overall in 1:03:04 before Breckenridge’s Alicia Vargo claimed the women’s race title and took third overall in 1:04:36.

Eric Rapp of Littleton finished right behind Vargo in fourth place (1:04:42). Dillon’s Paul Timm finished in fifth (1:07:13), Michael Shambarger took sixth (1:08:00), Breckenridge’s Mark Martin-Williams took seventh (1:09:41) and Chris DiMaio placed eighth (1:10:06).

Lindy Monteith and Brooke Steinkopf capped off the women’s podium. Just sneaking into the overall top 10, Monteith took ninth overall (1:10:15) and Steinkopf finished in 10th (1:12:44).

Lt. Mike Schilling of the Summit County Sheriff’s Office took 11th (1:14:30) with Audrey Kilness of Englewood finishing in 12th (1:16:39). Diego Andraca placed 13th (1:18:26), Daniel Frenchmore took 14th (1:19:24) and Jaime Falcon finished in 15th (1:19:46).

The next Summit Trail Running Series race — Horseshoe Gulch Grind — will take place on June 18. The race will be staged out of the Tiger Dredge Parking Lot off of Tiger Road in Breckenridge. The long-course race will begin at 5:30 p.m. with the short-course race following at 5:35 p.m.

To register for the next race, or any of the remaining races in the series, visit RaceBreck.com.

Operating on an every other week schedule, the Summit Mountain Challenge mountain bike race series will continue next Wednesday, June 11. Named “Tour de French Gulch” cyclists will begin from the B&B Trailhead before racing through the forest and spinning up dust.

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