Move like a river. It's good advice for the downhill section of the Barr Trail Mountain Race, but moving like a river won't help you ascend the six miles and nearly 4,000 feet in elevation from the Cog Railway Depot to Barr Camp, mid-point on the newest mountain race in the national backyard of mountain racing, Manitou Springs' own Pikes Peak.
Runners challenge the mountain to a race.
Mountain running is going through the same transition. We're seeing the demise phase right now. It is ugly. It is terrible. Pikes Peak is probably the busiest mountain in the country's most mountainous state.