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June President’s Message

Road Runner’s kicked off our 50th anniversary week with a great showing for the 2 mile pancake run at Bible Park.  150 runners participated and more then 50 volunteers, friends and family stayed for our traditional griddle cakes.    The AIR Foundation brought 10 new runners from their spring program to the event and 10 kids participated in the fun run as well.

Runner’s sported their club logo wear with a variety of singlets, t-shirts, and warm ups showing the sun logo that was the symbol of the club for 49 years.  Some of the gear was vintage wear and matched the clothing on Ric Robinette’s display board showing club gear from the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s.  Other gear featured the new 50th anniversary logo.

In addition to club shirts, the anniversary blankets arrived.  All participants received a logo key chain as well.

The June race was run on a new 2-mile course.  With the higher turnout of 150 runners, the old course was too narrow and had too much loose gravel at the finish.  Race Directors Doug Smith and Bonnie Keefe worked with Ric Robinette and Adam Feerst to design the new course.  Numerous compliments were received, so this course is a keeper!  With the new course came new course records from Scott Kukel for the Men’s Scratch, Deb Cunningham for the Ladies, and Mike Blanchard for the racewalk.

Thank you, Board and volunteers for getting the week’s worth of running off to a wonderful start!

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May President’s Blog

101 of you came out for the 5 miler at Stapleton’s City Park.  The day was cool with some people in winter running gear & others sporting shorts and T-shirts.

John Meyer of the Denver Post was at the race, taking photos and interviewing club members about the upcoming 50th anniversary.  The club will be featured in a story on the front page of the sports section the day before the Bolder Boulder.   Aurora Arlet, the club’s PR Director, worked with John to arrange the media day.

Two new course records were set at the May race, the second time we’ve run on the Stapleton course.  Congratulations to Mike Blanchard, racewalk recordholder with a time of 39:05/7:44 pace.  Scott Kukel set the Men’s record with a time of 23:11 or 5:48 pace.

Next up for the club is our 50th Anniversary.  The fun starts with at 2 mile race at Bible Park on Sunday, May 31.  This race is followed by a kid’s fun run and a pancake breakfast.

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May Board Meeting Minutes

Present: David Rothenburger, Deb Cunningham, Doug Smith, Dave Cunningham, Felix Lopez, Heather Reddy, Stephanie Struble, Kevin Downing, Aurora, Bonnie Keefe, Eric Greene, Leslie Mitchell, Mike Quispie
Absent: Scott Kukel, Bob Basse, Laurie Phenix, Ric Robinette, Ray Sibley, Karen Voss

Successes:

81 runners – down vs 129 yr before, but weather was supposed to be bad & Platte River half on same day.

Marketing and PR:

General 50th marketing – Kevin/Dave

  • Email RMRR yahoo group – send at least 3, Dave to draft
  • Email Brock’s BRC DB once or twice
  • Email Ed’s Roost DB once or twice
  • Ceck with Sonja at Lakewood to see if they have their own DB and also the Aurora store
  • Posters.  Post poster in CC athletic club, Denver a.c. and peak fitness.
  • Ad in Colorado Runner – ad should be in most recent issue.
  • Table in Wash Park w/ green brochures – Deb
  • Board fills out “I’m coming to the 50th because” – post your response on web site

50th Media plan

  • Rocky Mtn. Sports will pub. all our events
  • Denver Post article (publish week prior to our event)
  • CO Runner, Running Times (blog coverage)
  • Trail runner with Running times to post something about the trail run.

50th anniversary night – Dave

  • Sunday – Doug.  2 mile run/pancake breakfast w/ more food items, coffee, hot cocoa, more fruit
  • Monday – Deb.  Reunion at Runner’s Roost.  Have Co-Chairs: Collect memorabilia, round up 3 good stories, tell friends.   Joe Arrazola will present his award.  Emailed 1300 less bounces, will call those names given by co-chairs, send 2nd email, no mailing.  Look at electronic or written and then scanned Guest book.
  • Tuesday – Eric.  Wash Park Fun Run.  Need a permit – no.  Pace leaders – should wear gray shirts and be able to talk about the club.  Meet on south side of park across from south high parking lot.  1-2 laps.  We will provide water and Gatorade.  Bonnie Brae tavern for food and drink
  • Wednesday – Scott/Mike.  Track practice w/other clubs, led by Maureen Roben.  Need to Rent a porta potty.  Provide water.  Bring white board to post work out.
  • Thursday – David.  Trail running night @ Lair ‘O’ the bear (6:30pm).  Pot Luck.  Club to provide plates/utensils.  Race in progress sign to direct runners.
  • Friday – Kevin.  Predict run at BRC in Littleton.  BRC to provide cake, prizes, 20% discount
    Need permit? – Foothills park and rec.
  • Saturday – Karen.  Dave provided update.  8am-12pm relay run.  RMRR to provide water.  Figure out way to track mi. – tix that ea runner turns in after 1 lap, they could put their name on tix for a drawing

Diva Evening 4/30 6-9pm.  Deb.  RMRR is leading the fun run.

Take a bowflag to a race – Deb.  Did so last yr at Georgetown.  Place for RMRR members to gather.
Blanket orders from Apex Textilgraphics – questions about how many ordered.  Need to resolve via email offline.
Facebook page – up and running per Kevin.  He’ll add more functionality.
Potts Trotters – Deb emailed Potts, but no reply.  Eric Greene will reach out to tell her about the 50th
MTS apps ready now:  But, s/b a 15mi and 2/ 20mi. We will reprint apps.
Need RDs for 7/19, 8/2, 8/23 MTS.  Heather Reddy will volunteer w/ Mick Vollmer for 8/2 event.

Logistics

May TS:  a. Home page had wrong time. Deb corrected to 8am start.  Eblasts are right.  Have enough vols.

Race committee recommendations

  • 2 mile @ Bible Park – Doug will finalize.  Board wasn’t too fussed about downhill at the end.
  • 5k potluck @deKoevend is day before Georgetown, but stays on that date. Spaghetti as an option for those running the next day
  • 8 miler @ Carson – Ric & Bonnie.   Bonnie reached out to restaurant where Masters stage their race.  Hasn’t heard back yet, but confident we’ll be able to run from there.
  • Dec TS will be 4.5 miles, not 4.4

Race results updated & final – Felix.  Keep following the new process to set up new runners away from members.  Have information table.

Race Directors :  a. Ric Robinette will do Aug TS w/ Karen. Deb do one MTS.  Date TBD.

Volunteers

  • Vol of the month – Lis Shephard
  • Bolder Boulder doesn’t want us at the finish. Anyone who wants to volunteer can log on their website and sign up.

Treasurer’s Report – Leslie.  One question – have we paid our RRCA dues for 2009?  Deb will check.

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April President’s Message

Road Runners,

It was a great day to run the April 4 miler at City Park.  Despite predictions of 8 inches of snow on Saturday, we only got a dusting.  It was  a cold morning for race directors Stephanie Struble and Brian Bergevin.  They were out there at 7am and started us off on time. 

The snow we had quickly melted off as 81 road runners took to the course.   The day saw two new course records:  Scott Kukel with a new Men’s course record of 23:11 and Race walker Mike Blanchard in 39:05. 

I think attendance was down today because of the predicted snow and due to the Platte River 1/2.    Although race attendance was down this month, club membership is up.  We have 531 members, 367 families.  That’s a modern day record – thank you to everyone who joined, who renewed their membership and who participated in an event this past month! 

The Bolder Boulder training group from Scott Carpenter Middle School joined us for the race and Kerry Kuck’s wife, Janet Leonard was race photographer.  For those of you who don’t know, Kerry has a stress fracture in his calcaneous.  It happened this past week, ending his hopes of Boston this spring.  That’s tough news so close to the race.

On a brighter note, plans are set for the 50th.  We’ve got lots of great events planned with more features and attendees noted each week.  Check out the 50th page to plan which events you’ll attend.


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