President

Together we have rejuvenated our Club. In just 10 months, our current Board, with the support of 70 members that contributed to our 2023 planning process, has painted a bright future. In asking for your vote to re-elect me as President, I commit to continuing the momentum and carrying out the plan we wrote together.

A few highlights from our 2022 together:

• We assembled a remarkably capable leadership team that delivered on promises made a year ago, including administrative and financial transparency, inclusivity, and sound governance. 
• All members have been given multiple opportunities to participate in the process. So very many of you have responded, coming forward with your hand up asking how you can help, rather than your hand out asking what you get. 
• Together we added over 100 new members, reversing multiple years of declining membership. 
• Over 25 members volunteered at BRR events for their first time. 
• Our member banquet took a huge step forward to properly thank and recognize the volunteers on whose shoulders this club stands. 
• We hosted 7 monthly club socials and while attendance was limited to local members, I was grateful to meet so many of our long-serving members 
• Our race team members responded favorably to policy changes that support athletes who do their part by volunteering at essential club events. 
• Our various factions and interest groups are coming together as one club. 
• We created many unique running experiences for our members and community this year, including our signature All-Comer Track Series, the Mile High Mile, and the Terry Leiker Mile. 
• We also created an opportunity for 12 of our members to become American record holders. 
• Over 60 members represented the Club in the National Masters 5K Cross-Country Championship we co-hosted in Boulder this October. 
• Three of our race teams have stood on the Club XC National Championship podium in the past two seasons. Our BRR brand shines brightly coast-to-coast. 

In asking for you to re-elect me, I do so from a position of servant leadership. I will continue to help us realize the will of our members, who have been clear on where they want to go in 2023 and beyond. I look forward to sharing the 2023 plan built with our members’ input at the Annual General Meeting in January.

Chris’ experience with Boulder Road Runners (BRR) goes back 33 years, beginning with racing as a CU Buff in home meets produced by BRR volunteers. He ran his first BRR Summer All-Comer track meet in 1991, and introduced his two daughters to track, at ages 6 and 8, at a BRR All-Comer meet in 2008 (where they ran the 100 and 200 meters).

In 2021, grateful for the many BRR volunteers who produced CU Track and Cross Country Meets, All-Comer meets, and Turkey Trots, Chris (and Todd Straka) decided Boulder Road Runners was the right place to build a Men’s 50s racing team. In 2021, Chris helped the teams develop a new race kit and Colorado color palette to represent the Club in USATF state and national competitions. He helped the BRR Board start work on a new three-year plan, signed sponsors for the Club’s Mile High Mile, and started identifying team coordinators for new women’s teams and a men’s age 40-49 team.

Professionally, Chris has 20+ years of executive leadership and Board experience serving in CEO, COO, and GM roles working in marketing and advertising data, technology, and services. Chris’ expertise includes guiding organizations through turn-around and high-growth stages with a deep focus on strategy, building high-performing teams, and disciplined planning and execution. Chris also serves on the Advisory Board of the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to honoring Marines by educating their children.

Chris is a Colorado native. He has run the Bolder Boulder 34 times. Before running for Boulder Road Runners, he represented Fort Collins High School and the CU Buffs. His youngest daughter Joelle, whose aforementioned debut in track at age 6 was at a BRR All-Comer meet, now runs for the CU Buffs as well.

President

As 45 year Boulder resident and longtime member of BRR, I want to be your next President. I have mutual respect for past and new members alike. I would like to steer the club back to being more inclusive……meaning, legacy members(20+years), new members, runners, racers, and, retired runners(walkers) all benefit equally. It’s important that every member needs to be valued equally. I would like to foster a renewed interest in many of the great BRR traditions and legacies. All established BRR usual activities (Track Meets, Racing Teams, Social Community Causes)will still have my full support, but I hope to also bring back some of our traditions that made us like family. I hope to bring back the soul of the BRR by having more of a community of friends that happen to like running. Our club should be about something more than simply volunteering and racing teams. BRR should be socially supportive in both running and life. I feel our membership should continue to volunteer for many Boulder County events but with more respectful reciprocity. This very reciprocity is how our club worked in the past to fund many membership activities including socials, free gear, free refreshments and snacks at post-social runs. I will work hard to try to re-establish BRR relationships with local businesses that benefit all members. I am retired from CU and have ample time and interest to be involved and present to all of the different needs of our club membership.

If this is a direction of the club that resonates with you, I ask for your vote for BRR President.

Treasurer

Flavio is the current Boulder Road Runners Club Treasurer and member of the Master M50 Team. Living in Boulder since 2019. Working at Medtronic (medical technology) as VP of Supply Chain. Experienced in financial controls and budget mgt.

Secretary

Becca is originally from a small town in the Chicago area. She always had dreams of moving to an active city while growing up, so she lived in Boise while finishing graduate school and settled in Boulder in 2016, specializing in water resources engineering as a licensed professional engineer. She loves track and continues to improve her race times, yet also strives to give back to the Boulder running community that has benefited her. PRs are: 4:29 1500m (2018), 3:01 1k (2020), 2:14 800m (2021), 17:20 5k (xc-2021), 60:18 (Denver altitude 10 mile-2021

Membership

Kate has been a member of BRR for a year now and was an important part of the new W50 team, competing in both the Championships and Colleen De Reuck team races held in Boulder this year, assisting the team win both! She also volunteered multiple times for BRR this year. She loves the community aspects of BRR and would like to see this grow in the future. Becoming membership chair is a step towards this.

She has served as a non-profit chair for youth sports in the past and is currently serving on her HOA board. She moved to Boulder in 2019 and is still getting to know the community and the great running routes!

At Large

Deborah Conley is a Colorado native and former University of Colorado runner. She was a member of the first women’s Cross Country team to win a conference title. She also was a member of the first women’s CU Team to win a National Collegiate Triathlon Championship. As a master runner, she has been on multiple Cross Country teams that have medaled at USATF Cross Country National Championships and USATF National Club Cross Country Championships.
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Her numerous awards include (2020) Member of the Class of Colorado Running Hall of Fame, (2012) Pacesetter Award in appreciation of contributions in the field of Quality of Life presented by Daily Camera, (2012) Boulder Chamber of Commerce Women Who Light the Community, and (2013) Sportswoman of Colorado-Dorothy Mauk Pioneer Award in recognition for developing the sport of VI running.

She is the president and founder of Lending Sight, a company that develops and distributes products to help visually impaired athletes products for running and swimming. She serves as President of the Board of Directors for the Center for People With Disabilities, a non-profit with a yearly budget of approximately 3 million. She is entering her 10th year of service for CPWD. She is on the local organizing committee for United Move Jr. National Championship to be held in Colorado in July 2022. This is a week-long competition for para-disabled athletes aged 22 and under in the following sports: track and field, long and short course swimming, triathlon, archery, shooting, powerlifting, and wheelchair tennis.

“I would like to be a part of moving forward Boulder Road Runners to be more inclusive, community involved and a resource for developing athletes of all ages and abilities.”