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Anchor/Reporter | Traveler | Marathon Finisher | @KDVR + @channel2kwgn

Denver, CO
Joined August 2011
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2 years
Unfortunately, I have covered mass shootings multiple times in my career. This is the first time I can recall getting message after message from viewers like this.
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This is the most heartbreaking photo I have ever taken. These children are watching police clear their school after eight students were shot at the STEM high school next door. #highlandsranchshooting
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5 years
According to students and parents at HRHS vigil, students stormed out in protest because they say gun control advocates were trying to get STEM students to talk about gun control policies during the vigil instead of talking about their classmates.
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5 years
Little kids getting ready to be bussed to safe location where parents will be able to pick up
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7 years
Nearly packed arena for Michelle Obama speaking event at Pepsi Center in Denver #KDVR #KWGN
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6 years
9yr old Dane Best is lobbying town council to change what he calls an “outdated law” banning snowballs from being thrown in Severance, CO #FOX31
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2 years
It’s GAME DAY Colorado!! But the question is…WHERE should the hubby & I cheer on the @Avalanche ??? We don’t have tickets to the game, so drop your suggestions for the best watch party in town 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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3 months
Nikki Haley takes the stage in Colorado for a rally ahead of Super Tuesday, which is one week from today. @KDVR
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3 months
I’m pretty sure I’m the only one left in Colorado who hasn’t been selected yet for a reservation at Casa Bonita. Surely that deserves a prize of some kind. 🏰💗🌮
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4 years
This crowd is HUGE! Easily thousands of protesters tonight marching the streets of Denver
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Ashley Michels
7 years
Never know whose footsteps your following in!! Construction crews found a 66mil yr old fossilized triceratops skull &skeleton in Thornton.
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6 years
Meet Hailey—the 8 year old girl throwing out the first pitch at every MLB ballpark. She uses a robotic hand because she was born without fingers. Today she’s at @Rockies and she’s awesome!!! 💪🏼 #GoRox 💜 @haileys_hand
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2 years
5am vs. 6am, Saturday morning style! 💄👗👠
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6 years
GOAL!!! @Avalanche #KDVR This crowd is electric!!!!
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6 years
“Zack was always there for his friends. Giving scriptural advice to friends in need of advice, or offering up his free time to help his buddies with home projects. Zack was selfless and a true friend to anyone that knew him.” #KDVR
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Ashley Michels
4 years
A very peaceful event happening right now at Denver’s Civic Center Park
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2 years
Good morning! ☀️
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6 years
Deputy Gumm’s final ride #KDVR
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2 years
Shout out to the hubby for having coffee ready for me when I left the house at 3:45am!! ☕️💛
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Ashley Michels
2 years
Mountain traffic
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Ashley Michels
1 year
What are the chances the bosses let me anchor this morning in cozy clothes?? …probably the same as the temp outside: less than zero! 🥶
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Ashley Michels
1 year
When it’s 3am, -15° & you still gotta make that morning commute
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Ashley Michels
2 years
Almost every Friday night, I have an extremely real and very scary nightmare (newsmare?) that I’ve overslept for the Saturday morning show. EVERY. TIME. it’s 6am in my dream (that’s when the show starts) I wake up in a panic and it’s like 11:45pm in real life.
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1 year
Sunshine the last two days inspired me to pick out yellow this morning! 💛☀️ We’ll be on FOX31 from 6am-9am & Channel 2 from 8am-10am. See you there! ☕️📺
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1 year
Wearing pink today for absolutely no special reason whatsoever 👀
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Ashley Michels
6 years
A flag stands guard outside fallen officer Zack Parrish’s home, while a blue ribbon blows in the breeze. Both were placed by a neighbor this morning #KDVR
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Ashley Michels
5 years
Some new insight into the HRHS vigil—he says STEM students were upset politicians were there. See below
@ItsMichal
michal
5 years
@ReporterAshley This is wrong. We walked out because we were pissed at the politicians who were there who tried to politicize the event. We were given an opportunity to speak but were advised by our own faculty not to. We didn't want to stay to hear more politics and left in protest.
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Ashley Michels
2 years
Merry Christmas Eve! Do we know how to color coordinate or what?? 🎄🎅🏼🤶🏻 @DrewEngelbart @KDVR
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Ashley Michels
5 years
Here is the story @aubstheword and I put together following the tragedy in Highlands Ranch.
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Ashley Michels
8 years
#Broncos fever is sweeping the city
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3 years
It’s ladies day at @KDVR + @channel2kwgn So excited to have @KylieBearseWX & @CMoore_News in the studio with me this morning 🎥✨📺
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Ashley Michels
7 years
When the shortest reporter at #KDVR interviews a former @Broncos pro-bowler #orangecrush #gradishar53
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Ashley Michels
6 years
Senator Corey Gardner just happened to be passing thru when reported tornado hit. He helped clear debris off the road #KDVR
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Ashley Michels
3 years
One officer has been killed. Two others wounded. Pray for Boulder.
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Ashley Michels
7 years
This triceratops was found in Brighton in '03. Wonder if he was friends with the one just found in Thornton! #dinosaurs
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Ashley Michels
8 years
Ahhh!!! I was sitting in the white SUV when this dust devil hit! 🌪(🎥: @DoughertyKMGH ) #cowx
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Ashley Michels
11 months
Happy Friday! @KylieBearseWX and I totally had @Barbie on the brain this morning
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Ashley Michels
1 year
That’s a wrap! My time filling in w/the ✌🏼Crew is officially over. It was an honor waking up with Colorado over the past few weeks as we dealt with blizzards, deep freezes, tragedies & triumphs. Catch me every Saturday from 6-10am 🎥✨📺
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9 months
Ha! @TheRock just told me “nice dress” and that he “loves Boulder” ⛰️🖤⭐️🏈
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Ashley Michels
2 years
Happy Halloween! 🎃👻 Today kicks off a temporary assignment filling in on @ch2daybreak with my pals @chrisparente @KenClarkTV & @chris_tomer 📺🎤 I’ll be waking up with you M-F until mid-December 🎄🎁
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2 years
💔I did not know these journalists, but TV News is such a small family. My thoughts are with their families, WBTV and all fellow newsies who knew them.
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"The WBTV family is grieving a terrible loss."
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3 years
That’s a wrap on All-Star week in Denver!! ⚾️🏔🌟
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2 years
It’s my first morning taking the new set for a spin!
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1 year
Happy NBA Finals Game Day, Denver!! To celebrate, here’s me as a “Chicken Nugget” 🏀⛏️ #NuggetsNation #NBAFinals
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Ashley Michels
2 years
Right about now, all dogs are therapy dogs. This moment of cuteness brought to you by Nugget, whose firefighter owners brought him by for some pets
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Ashley Michels
1 year
Getting the miles in before the snow hits Denver! ❄️🏃🏻‍♀️❄️
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7 years
It's a DINOSAUR!! Bones will be on display soon at @DenverMuseumNS while they clean the fossils
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Ashley Michels
1 month
A really cool Colorado story tonight at 9p on @KDVR : #KentuckyDerby150 horse “West Saratoga” was named after a CO street & his jockey will wear the CO flag on Sat. Plus, he’s a total underdog! Owner Harry Veruchi, from CO, paid just $11k. Another horse in the race cost $2.3 mil!
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Ashley Michels
7 years
Goofy picture, but seriously cool! 🤓 This is a fossilized triceratops horn, just like the one unearthed in Thornton!! Thx @DenverMuseumNS
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Ashley Michels
2 years
Alright, let’s see if this is enough caffeine to keep me going for the next 4 hours! ☕️ We’ll see you on @KDVR from 6-8a & @ch2daybreak from 8-10a! ☀️📺
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Ashley Michels
3 years
There she goes!! @DENAirport reporting 11+ inches of snow and it’s still falling. Luckily nobody was under that part of the canopy. We were watching and waiting for it to go for more than an hour. TSA agents cheered because that was the most action they’ve seen today!
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Ashley Michels
2 years
Surprise! I’m filling in on the @KDVR anchor desk this morning. As an added bonus, this morning we’re launching an extra half hour of news that will take our 11am show all the way through noon. 🎥✨📺
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Ashley Michels
1 year
So, I’m pretty confident that @RicoRom24 & I are the @Broncos good luck charms. Both games we went to, they won. Based on those stats, We will be accepting donations of 2023-2024 season tickets 😜
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2 years
Feeling very thankful this holiday. Rico had a major health scare at the end of October, underwent a life-altering surgery & spent nearly 3 weeks in the hospital. We are beyond thankful for family & friends who were there for us. And SO thankful one day Rico will be all better!💛
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Ashley Michels
1 year
At long last, Casa Bonita is getting ready to reopen! They HAVE NOT announced an official date yet. But we know they will begin with a “soft” launch w/limited dinner hours. NO walk ins or waiting in lines. The only way to get a table is to sing up for their emails & get invited
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Ashley Michels
8 years
More than a thousand line up in Denver to hear @BernieSanders & Elizabeth Warren campaign for @HillaryClinton
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Ashley Michels
2 years
Look who I found! ♥️💙 @CarlyCassadyWX #GoAvsGo
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Ashley Michels
5 years
Vigil at HRHS took a strange turn. STEM students asked to speak, they grouped in the hallway—then a parent said on the mic that “the media” forced the STEM students to leave. Students are now running away in tears. No one can figure out what “media” she’s talking about
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5 years
Absolutely incredible rainbow forming over Keenesburg, CO following tornado warning, heavy rain #COwx #FOX31
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Ashley Michels
2 months
🎉✨1️⃣0️⃣✨🎉 A decade ago @KDVR took a chance on a young reporter who really had no business working in Denver yet. That moment changed my life and launched a career that I am very proud of. Below is a snap from my first story on April 12, 2014 🎥✨📺
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Ashley Michels
6 years
You don’t realize how powerful this photo is until you hear the backstory. Officers from @Chicago_Police @bostonpolice @NYPDnews @DallasPD & @SCPDHq traveled to CO to support @AuroraPD & @AdamsCoSheriff ahead of Deputy #GummBall funeral tomorrow. #KDVR
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2 years
A fleet of ospreys waiting at @DENAirport ahead of @POTUS arrival. I saw ospreys flying over Louisville yesterday afternoon. They could be used during Biden’s tour of the disaster area today @KDVR
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Ashley Michels
3 years
Perk of today: puppy snuggles with @officialsnowdog 🥰🥰🥰
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2 years
Treated myself to a fresh pair of earrings to kick off the morning! 💁🏻‍♀️
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3 years
December 1st or June 1st?? Certainly doesn’t feel like winter in Denver
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3 years
Epic moonrise over Denver!
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2 years
That feeling when you win in OT!!! Tivoli watch party crowd erupts into All the Small Things & chants of “One More Win!” @Avalanche now lead the series 3-1. @KDVR
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2 years
It’s a bittersweet morning here on @ch2daybreak It’s the day we say farewell to Colorado’s mountain man, the legendary @chris_tomer It has been truly an honor working with and getting to know one of the best of the best! Cheers to 1️⃣8️⃣ years 🍾🎉
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4 years
It’s happening!!! They’re making SNOW up at @CopperMtn
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5 years
Highlands Ranch High School is filled tonight with hundreds of students mourning Kendrick Castillo
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3 years
This is a big day for me—the first time EVER I have treated myself to the latest iPhone. I’ve always been a model or two or three behind. Not anymore! And here’s the very first pic with it. I’m a little excited 🤣🤣
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2 years
Here we go!! ☃️☃️☃️
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Ashley Michels
3 years
Hiked Hanging Lake on a special tour today. It’s bad. Debris is 10ft deep, bridges are gone & creek has shifted where it flows. BUT: the lake itself is recovering!! A primitive trail could reopen next year. A permanent trail will take years. @KDVR
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1 year
Trying something a little different: I am the now the interim anchor of our regional half hour political show “Colorado Point of View”. You know what’s cool about that? Now our political anchor, reporter, producer, managing editor & director are all women!
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Ashley Michels
2 years
Good Saturday morning! ☀️ See you on @KDVR from 6-8a & @channel2kwgn from 8-10a
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Ashley Michels
1 year
What a Christmas treat! 🎄🎁 Back with my gal @CarlyCassadyWX after 8 weeks apart while I was working M-F. Thanks for waking up with us each and every Saturday ☀️☕️
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3 years
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3 years
Officer Eric Talley is my big brother. He died today in the Boulder shooting. My heart is broken. I cannot explain how beautiful he was and what a devastating loss this is to so many. Fly high my sweet brother. You always wanted to be a pilot (damn color blindness). Soar.
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2 years
News Team: Assemble! @CarlyCassadyWX & I have company this Saturday morning as we wake up to a Pinpoint Weather Alert Day. Stick with the biggest news team in Colorado, we’ve got you covered! @KylieBearseWX @KenClarkTV @KirkYuhnke @jimhooley @lisa__dsouza @katieorth @greg_nieto
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‼️This is a big win for local journalists‼️ Did you know non-compete clauses are standard for most of the people you see on your local channels? Many contracts say we can’t work on-air at another station in the same city for 6-12 months, which was incredibly limiting.
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FTC announces rule banning #noncompetes : /1
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2 years
The restaurant is full & the line stretches around the parking lot at @raisingcanes in Aurora. Avs Captain @GabeLandeskog92 will be here from 1-2pm working the register & drive-thru! @KDVR
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Ashley Michels
1 year
A Broncos win!!!
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3 years
BREAKING: Jury finds Mark Redwine Guilty of killing his son Dylan Redwine in 2012 and Guilty of child abuse @KDVR
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Spring 2022 (top) vs Fall 2022 (bottom)
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Ashley Michels
1 year
Traded todays rain ☔️ for snow!! ☃️ Parts of Colorado’s mountains including Rocky Mountain National Park & Summit County are under a winter storm warning until noon Friday. The month of May is always a wild one🌷🌻🌱
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Ashley Michels
8 years
@DenverPolice @SportsAuthField @Broncos please don't! At least until the end of the game!! Go #Broncos !!
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Ashley Michels
3 years
Wearing yellow but feeling blue because it’s my LAST day hanging with the ✌🏼 Crew. It’s been so fun spending my mornings with @chrisparente @KenClarkTV & Chris Tomer. Thanks for having me! I’ll be back to Saturday mornings starting tomorrow and reporting in the evenings
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4 years
Alright social media, do your thing! A woman in Fort Collins, CO bought a $4 camera at Goodwill. A roll of film was still inside from 30(ish) years ago and here’s what she found when she developed it! Now she’s trying to find the family so they can have them all back!!
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On Thursdays, we wear green! 💚 or pink, or purple, or orange….or any other traditionally politically neutral color, because Thursdays are when we shoot Colorado Point of View 📺🎤🗳️🇺🇸
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Ashley Michels
2 years
Team MICHELS! Thrilled to get to work alongside my twin brother for the next 6 weeks on @ch2daybreak (We’re not really related but we like to pretend we are! 😊) Welcome to the morning show @WeatherMichels !!!
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Ashley Michels
6 years
We have just learned the deputy who was shot and killed this morning is 29yr old Zack Parrish. We’re told he has a wife and young children. Four other Douglas County Sheriff’s deputies were also injured in shooting #KDVR #KWGN Rest In Peace, sir
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Ashley Michels
2 years
To our Saturday morning viewers, I apologize in advance for the gigantic bags I’m going to have under my eyes this weekend. There is no way I’m going to be able to sleep during Game 5 Friday night—when the @Avalanche can win the #StanleyCup on home ice!!!
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4 years
Driving north into Fort Collins feels like heading into a storm. It’s so eerie. The smoke is from the Cameron Peak Fire which has been burning since August. High winds are fueling it again, causing it to spread East. #kdvr #CameronPeakFire
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1 year
One day, I want to put my picture on this wall. #IYKYK
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Ashley Michels
3 years
. @GovofCO & @MayorHancock welcoming President Biden to Denver @KDVR
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Ashley Michels
6 years
#snopeningday was too cold for everyone else in my row!! @Rockies
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Ashley Michels
2 years
Here we go again! Today begins my 3rd marathon training cycle. I’ll be running for the next 18 weeks to get ready for the Chicago Marathon starting line on October 9th 🏃🏻‍♀️🍕🌭🌬🌇⛲️
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