Author: Dave Cunningham

Present: Lisa, Dave C, Ang, Travis, Michael H, Michael B, David R, David K and Rick.

May Race:

• Race Directors are David K & Michael Blanchard. David K will bring all of the rolls and master list for checkin.
• Need to coordinate with Mike on who is bringing what.
• Have giveaways from Dave C and Lisa
• Volunteers are Rosalie, Alex Navarro, And and one other

April Race Recap:

• Good weather. Mile markers were off slightly, will remeasure for next year. Ang got good pictures.

Volunteer of the Month:

• Ang- Always helps with registration each month and filled in and did photos for last month’s race.

Spring MTS Race Recaps:

• First race had 40-60 runners
• 20-22 for 2nd & 3rd races
• 3rd MTS was same day as Cherry Creek Sneak, also 4 weeks out from Colfax instead of 3.
• How to publicize more?
  • We have an ad in Colorado Runner Mag in color
  • Post on Facebook and email blast
  • We (the board) need to be more active in sharing Facebook event posts

Track:

• 21 participants last week. Fewer the first few weeks.
• Waiver
  • Need to have people sign and get name & contacts #/email
  • Lisa will bring these
• Dave C & Lisa have the Square for plastic payment. Dave C stated that we have a PayPal account for the club as well.

Race Directors:

• June – Bible Park
  • RD – Scott Hogg (can help & do pancakes) but still need someone to set up course
    • Michael Blanchette and Michael Hopkins volunteered to set up course
  • David indicated that we need to be sure to sweep by the swing set at the turnaround for the safety of runners
• July – Stonehouse
  • RDs – Scott Kukel, Dave C, Mike Blanchette
  • Bring-A-Friend for free
• August – DeKoevend Park
  • Combined with Colorado Masters
  • RDs – Scott McFarland, Scott Newman & Jennifer Corker from Masters
  • 150-200 total racers, will do mass start waterfall
  • Score straight up for Masters
  • Mike B suggested we recognize the President of each club and allow them to speak about the club and promote sign up.
  • David K suggested we have a dedicated volunteer just for new sign ups at this race
• September – Trophy Series and Marathon Training combined
  • RDs – Tim Gentry and Bob Basse
  • 7am start for MTS 20 miler
  • 8am start for MTS 10 miler and Trophy Series 10 mile & 5k
  • 20 miler racers will have ability to also compete in 10M TS by having a tag to rip off after first 10 miles of 20 mile race. Anyone competing in both the 20 miler and TS will need to have their handicap time added and scored separately
  • Likely think we will have different bibs for the separate races, and a way to remove tag for 10 TS from MTS runners
• Good for remainder of year

Summer Suds Series:

• Rick would like to continue to serve the club with some type of coaching. Last month we agreed on the Summer Suds Series, which would be a tempo run and a short 10-20 minute seminar.
• Starting at Landlock Ales brewery in Lakewood.
• 3225 S Wadsworth Blvd Lakewood, CO 80227
• Discussed meeting Tuesdays at 6pm every other week beginning 5/15 through August
• Landlock inquired with Rick about sponsoring. We did not pursue this at this time, but Lisa suggested we ask them about providing us with Happy Hour pricing
• No food trucks currently on Tuesdays
• Lisa asked Rick to provide a route map and a calendar to schedule Facebook events
• Travis asked about having a waiver at this event as well. Dave C will update the waiver form to include contact info of participants.
• Currently planning for members only as we feel out attendance

Timing:

• Ang talked with Paul from Roost, he would be willing to come talk with us
• Roost would cost $1000/race to provide timing services
• Dave C gave Adam a list of needs and asked Adam if he would be interested in helping on the project. Adam gave a maybe, but not a specific commitment.
• AGEE Timing is the vendor we are considering, but programming continues to be the issue
• David R is looking into staggered starts with Bolder Boulder, and asked David K for a list of the start times for the 10k to do further research.
• Tabled to next meeting

Financials:

• Report from Leslie
  • Income is up slightly ($600) from last year, despite not having any of Rick’s coaching income. This is due to a little bit from the Awards Dinner, as well increased revenue from the MTS and the Trophy Series.
  • Expenses are down slight ($300) from last year, mostly due to Race Expenses; however, I did just pay $285 for port-a-potties, so we are really tracking almost identical to last year.
  • We have a YTD loss of $1,062, but again, this is normal. We have a lot of big expenses early in the year.  I expect things will start to balance out soon.
• Westminster Update from Rick – If we keep our date, we will be assured to get it at no cost.

Colfax:

• Lisa asked Mike B to talk about Colfax/Charities at next race
• Water Stop – We currently have 18 volunteers. Looks like Dave C will be running and he reported the Snug is happy.

Other Business:

• Michael H asked about 2019 races, specifically the January race, which he help to direct this year. The plan is to keep the race up there in Westminster, seemed to go well this year and received positive response.
• Travis owes David K one beer.

Next Meeting: May 21st – Travis set up space for us at Barfly at Alamo Drafthouse on Colfax at

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