Kris is no stranger to pulling off back-to-back events in a single weekend. In May of 2022, she won the HYROX World Championship in Las Vegas, and less than 12 hours later, after driving through the night, took 3rd place in a Spartan US National Series race in Big Bear, California. This past weekend, she did it again.
DEKA FIT Northeast x 2 (Saturday)
Rugloski raced twice at DEKA FIT Northeast on Saturday, August 26th, finishing 3rd in the elite division in the morning, putting up the 6th fastest DEKA FIT time this year in 34:08. Then joined her partner, Johnny Mares, from last year’s 3rd place coed team at DEKA FIT World Championships, and took 4th place in the coed teams race around 7pm, missing 3rd place by 3 seconds in a fantastic race against Julie Best & Isaac Sanderson.
As far as we know, she doesn’t own a private jet, but somehow she was back in Denver, Colorado by the next morning. Manic Training, a DEKA affiliate just South of Denver, was hosting a DEKA MILE event, and who was there with her unmistakable smile? Kris Rugloski, at it again.
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DEKA MILE (Sunday)
Around 10am on Sunday, August 27th, Kris threw down with the local community to put up her first DEKA MILE time of the yearβa 21:03, good for 10th place this year on the DEKA MILE leaderboard, putting her solidly in a qualifying spot for the 2023 DEKA World Championships later this year.
Rugloski’s DEKA times are beyond impressive, and what she’s able to do on the competition floor (and trails and obstacles and… everywhere) is incredible to witness… but it’s what Kris does when she’s not competing that really sets her out from the crowd.
I had the pleasure of judging alongside Kris on Sunday, almost immediately after we both finished our own races. She started a few minutes after me, and still almost finished before me π. But we both volunteered to judge the next group of athletes.
Par For The Course
She does this at almost every race she competes in. I also witnessed this first hand at OCRWC last year in Vermont. She was checking people in at the registration table in the morning, putting medals around finishers necks in the evening, and somewhere in between all that, she found time to race in (I think) all 4 races across a 3-day span.
Within 48 hours of racing on Sunday, she was carrying the kid she babysits for up to his first ever summit of a fourteener (a 14,000 ft. peak in Colorado).
While I don’t know Kris personally, I greatly admire her selflessness. There are very few athletes that balance their fierce competitive nature with a deep desire to help and cheer on other athletes. Kris does this better than anyone else I’ve ever seen.
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