Madeline McKeever and Grant Smith, who met on the dating app Bumble, solidified their bond through their love of running and music.
Pickup trucks, campers and S.U.V.’s, bench seats and trail races, and their little dog, Marie.
All of the above play a role in the relationship of Dr. Madeline McKeever and Grant Smith, whose easygoing lifestyles might have been lyrical fodder for a John Prine song.
“Spending time with Madeline, no matter what we’re doing together, is always such a comfortable feeling,” said Mr. Smith, 35, an appellate lawyer with the federal public defenders office for the districts of Colorado and Wyoming.
Mr. Smith, who is also a self-described “middle-of-the-pack runner,” soon realized that he and Dr. McKeever, 33, had both run the same 50-kilometer trail race near Golden, Colo. — the Golden Gate Dirty 30 — in June 2018 and not only had she won the race, but in doing so, had set the course record for women.
“Madeline is very athletic and competitive,” said Mr. Smith, who graduated from Brown and received a law degree from the University of Wyoming.
“At first glance, I thought she was intimidating, but she’s not,” he said of Dr. McKeever, a general practitioner at the Veteran’s Affairs Clinic in Golden who graduated from Duke and received a medical degree from Brown. “I have found her to be inquisitive, thoughtful and warm.”
The two met on the dating app Bumble in 2018, and both were surprised to learn that not only had they shared the same taste in country music, but each also shared the same favorite performer, John Prine, the country-folk singer and song writer who died on April 7 from complications of the coronavirus.
“We were fortunate enough to see Mr. Prine perform shortly before his death, at the Red Rocks,” said Dr. McKeever, referring to the Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison, Colo. “It was completely awesome.”
When asked what type of person she initially thought Mr. Smith to be when she first learned he was a die-hard John Prine fan, Dr. McKeever said: “In my mind, that made him someone who valued good writing and a sense of humor.”
Mr. Smith was all of that — and more.
“I have never met a more attentive listener and a calming presence,” she said. “He never pretends to have the answers but, instead, offers me a strong shoulder to lean on whenever I need it and is never filled with judgment or anger.”
Mr. Smith, who was enjoying backpacking trips and trail runs in Colorado and Wyoming within months of meeting Dr. McKeever, said he was as big a fan of hers as he was of Mr. Prine.
“Since Day 1, she has always been there to laugh with me and listen to me when the world seems a bit unfair,” he said.
They were engaged Sept. 7, 2020, on the bench seat of Mr. Smith’s pickup truck after the two had finished a trail with their dog, Marie — named after the John Prine song “Lake Marie” — outside Laramie, Wyo.
They married two months later on Nov. 23, 2020 at Golden City Hall in Golden, Colo. Michael Goodbee, a municipal court judge, officiated.
They originally intended on marrying in Golden on Nov. 24, 2020 at the Armory, one of the largest cobblestone buildings in the United States, with each set of parents in tow. But the coronavirus forced them to change those plans.
“When I first read his Bumble profile, I thought, ‘Wow, here’s a guy who seems so intriguing,” Ms. McKeever said. “He is so thoughtful and polite, and he, like myself, values family over everything else. I guess in that sense,” she said, “I’m still intrigued.”
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