Saturday - June 7th, 2024 @ 2:00pm
Power Walk Competition
Calling all 50+ aged power walk athletes! Power walk is back at the Colorado Senior Games in 2025! Enjoy the camaraderie of competing with your fellow athletes at Garry Berry stadium in Colorado Springs. Reconnect with old friends and make new ones along the way!
Open to anyone with an interest in competing – whether you’re a veteran of the sport or looking to try something new – power walk has something for you! We hope to see you this coming June. Stay active, stay healthy, and good luck!

Registration
Registration Deadline is June 2, 2025 @ 11:59 pm
Athletic.net registration clarification
Competition
Format Details
Divisions & Genders
Genders:
- Male
- Female
Ages:
- 50 – 54
- 55 – 59
- 60 – 64
- 65 – 69
- 70 – 74
- 75 – 79
- 80 – 84
- 85 – 89
- 90+
Competition Rules & Format
- This meet will be conducted in accordance with USA Track & Field (USATF) rules, except as modified herein. For a copy of these rules, visit or contact: USA Track & Field www.usatf.org
- Power Walkers will be provided numbers to be worn clearly on their back in addition to a front chest number.
- No canes, walkers, headphones, cell phones or water bottles allowed during the event.
- Power Walk is a monitored event in which an athlete can be disqualified. Power Walking, while very similar to Race Walking, does not have the same technical requirements.
- One foot must be on the ground at all times. Loss of contact with the ground is forbidden.
- Each advancing foot strike must be heel to toe at all times. Striking with the toe or ball of the advancing foot is considered running.
- Creeping, where the lead toe strikes prior to the heel and knee are bent into a running form is forbidden.
- A slightly bent knee is the accepted form but a bent knee in a running or jogging form is forbidden.
- Running or jogging mode is forbidden.
- Any violation in the last 100 meters as determined by a single judge is reason for immediate
disqualification. - The advancing leg as it moves forward (and when the heel strikes) the ground; it does not have to be completely locked as it passes under the body. Soft knee is acceptable, however, over-excessive bent knee is deemed to be in a creeping or running shuffle is not acceptable and subject to disqualification.
- Unsportsmanlike conduct can result in disqualification by the judges, monitors or race official.
- Disqualification will result when an athlete is judged to be in violation of the above rules in three separate
instances by three separate officials or monitors or race director during the course of the race competition. - Awards will be presented for 1st through 3rd place for each event within each age division.
Other information
- Must be ages 50+ to compete
- Age determination date for all divisions: Saturday – June 7th, 2025
- Facility opens at 8:00 am
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