Josiah: ‘It was a struggle from start to finish’

By Chris Freud

BEAVER CREEK — He sat at the base of Beaver Creek at a table with his daughter, Larsen, in his lap, his two boys, Colin and Sullivan, around the table with his better half, Ingrid, dishing out some cheese pizza.The average nature of this average Saturday scene was betrayed by the presence of a gold medal beside his paper plate.“It’s going to taste so good,” Josiah Middaugh said of the pizza, not the medal. “I’m drooling right now.”One would think that after swimming 1 mile, mountain-biking 15 miles, and running 5 miles in the Xterra Mountain Championship, and winning the …

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