Boulder

REGULAR MEETING SPOTS

Mid-Week: Gillaspie and Heidelberg in S. Boulder, Big Daddy Bagels, 30th and Arapahoe, Potts Field/CU Research Park, Valmont Rd and Stazio Dr, Century Drive in Louisville, Valmont and Airport Rd, Avery Brewery, 8th and Dellwood, Ozo Coffee/Uplsope Brewery, Gunbarrel Brewing

Saturday Long Run: N. 63rd and IBM Plant, Niwot Market, Runners Roost Boulder, Runners Roost Louisville, Go Far store, Founders Park in Superior, Valmont Rd and Stazio Dr, Avery Brewery

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BOULDER GROUP COACHES

Heather North

Boulder and Resident Physiotherapist

Heather has been coaching for Revolution Running since 2005. She has extensive experience with gait analysis, exercise science, biomechanics, and injury prevention / treatment and owns Red Hammer Rehab as a Doctor of Physical Therapy in Boulder T. During practices, Heather works with each runner to find out where they are in their running, where they want to go, and how to reach their goals. Heather realizes that with running, consistency, group training, and staying injury free are the keys to staying healthy, keeping fit, getting faster, and of course having FUN!

Personal Bests: 800 - 2:25, 5k - 20, 10k - 41, Half Marathon - 1:31, Marathon - 3:32 (after recovering from a broken leg), Pikes Peak Marathon - 5:20, 50Miler - Leadville 12 hours.
Interests: Heather enjoys trail running even though she is focusing on road running while she has her speed, mountain biking, spending time with her pets, watching movies, and of course traveling.

Andy Wacker

Andy has been running competitively for over 15 years. He has had the honor to train under the famous Mark Wetmore and earned two All-American awards during his tenure at the University of Colorado. Now he divides his time between road, cross country and trail running. He has competed for the United States seven times, earning an individual Silver medal in the World Long Distance Mountain Running Championships in 2015, which took place in Zermatt, Switzerland. He has been part of two gold medal teams, and his highest goal is to continue to support the country and community on the international stage.
Andy started coaching for Revolution Running in 2015 to help give back to the Boulder running community. He enjoys supporting, encouraging and sharing his experiences, as well as hearing other's stories.

Pete Valentyik

Peter Valentyik has been a Coach with the Training Club sine 2006 and obtains great satisfaction learning and sharing knowledge and experience with athletes of different abilities. He also coaches Masters swimming, Nordic Skate skiing and is a private Swim Instructor for all abilities. Peter began his swim coaching/instruction in College and continued ever since with continued refinement in methods, athlete success and satisfaction. Born in Northern Michigan, he started out as a competitive swimmer since the age of 9 in Budapest Hungary, while attending school for one year. He then continued with swim competition into High School (MVP his senior year) and College (Most Improved Freshman Year).

Noted performances included two consecutive years of competing in for the US @ Age Group Short Course World Championships in England (20th place) and New Zealand (7th place). Peter then chose to compete as a Professional Triathlete, where he competed for 13 years while also balancing a full time engineering career in the Medical Device field. His most notable performances included a 2nd overall lead after the swim and bike sections in the 2004 Wisconsin, Ironman.

Other competitions included competing in the Long Course World Championships, in Muncie Indiana, numerous National Olympic Distance and Half Ironman Distances and winning a handful of local Sprint and Olympic Distance Triathlons and Duathlons.

Michael Morrison

I graduated from the University of Colorado with my Doctor of Physical Therapy degree and have extensive experience treating runners of all abilities in my clinic, Red hammer Rehab, alongside Heather North.
I started running cross country as a senior in high school to meet the requirements for my soccer team. I
invested more heavily in running while in grad school, when I had my first stint working with Revolution Running (then the Bolder Boulder Training Club). I coached for 2 Bolder Boulder 10K’s, always making sure to demonstrate how to hit the slip n’ slide while keeping the target race time. ;) Running is all about
having fun for me, and you will see that in my coaching style. Don’t worry, goals are also important to me too! After moving to Florida in 2008, I quickly began connecting with local running groups and started coaching, while also pursuing my own running goals. I personally enjoy 10K and half marathon distances. That said, I have coached everyone from Couch to 5k runners, who just want to cover 3.1 miles for the first time in their lives, to a podium finisher at the Keys 50. I am a people person who just loves to make new acquaintances and educate and empower others to reach whatever the next step is in their life journey. Perhaps my favorite thing about being part of the running community is this: more than any other community that I have ever been a part of, I believe we runners, no matter how experienced, just enjoy seeing a new person get out and get moving, and we are always happy to join them. So whether you want that 26.2 PR or you have no idea what I just referred to, I can’t wait to work with you to see what you achieve next!

Kelly Luck

Kelly started running at the age of 18 after swimming competitively for years and participated in a variety of other sports. She threw herself completely into running and never looked back. Unfortunately Kelly did not listen to my body and did not ease into running as she should have and ended up injured within a couple months of starting to run. After barely being able to run for almost a year and a half she was able to slowly get back into running.

After being unable to run her freshman year in college because of my injury Kelly ran cross-country and track for the University of Redlands. After graduating college she decided to focus on longer races like the half marathon and marathon. Kelly loves coaching others and helping others find joy and success in running. She has done some coaching for the Boulder Striders when in college and was able to coach high school cross country at Horizon High School last year.

Currently Kelly is in graduate school at the University of Colorado, Denver for counseling psychology and also works at the Boulder Running Company.

Maggie Callaghan

Maggie grew up in Fairbanks, AK, where she was a mulit-time state champion on the track. She attended the University of Arizona (to make up for her lack of sun in her childhood), to run track and cross country. The highlight of her college career was being the 2011 Pac 10 Steeplechase Champion. She moved to Boulder last spring to continue training and competing professionally, with the team Hudson Training Systems, coached by Brad Hudson. One of the best happiest moments of her running career was winning her weight in beer at the July 4th 4k at Avery's Brewing company.

PRs:
3000m (indoor): 9:25
3000m Steeplechase: 10:07
5000m: 16:29
6000m xc: 20:26

Jayson Swigart

Running has been a large part of my life since I was 14 when I laced up racing shoes for the first time, undertrained an overconfident I led a XC race for 2.99 miles only to be out kicked in the last 5 meters. From that day forward I swore I would never be undertrained again.
After running collegiately I taught math and coached Cross Country and Track for 3 years from 2003-2005 at Canyon Springs High School in California. In 2006 I moved to Boulder CO to give it one more go at running, I joined the Boulder Distance Project under Steve Jones’ tutelage, and ran PR’s in all road/trail distances. I have coached for Revolution Running since 2007.

Steven Dunbar

Steve raced bicycles at CU-Boulder in the late 80's and continued amateur racing into the mid-90's. After a hiatus to have two kids, Steve started running regularly in 2002 and has been ever since. In 2009 he began competing in triathlon, and with great coaching and all the resources Boulder has to offer, he qualified for the ITU Age Group World Championships in 2012 (Auckland). With new lifetime PRs in all three sports in 2014, he will be representing the USA again in 2015 at ITU World Championships, held in Chicago. Steve's philosophy is to keep training consistent yet dynamic, continuously trying new things and ideas seeking those "secret weapons" that make a break through happen, and taking a long term view by using the seasons to ones advantage.

Professionally, Steve is an Electrical Engineer working for Texas Instruments, and is also pursuing a PhD in Electromagnetics at CU-Boulder.

Beth August-Abbott

Beth is a native Ohioan who has lived in Boulder since September, 2012. Not a day goes by where she’s not in awe of the scenery and how much everyone loves the outdoors. She has been a runner for most of her life and consistently for nearly 20 years. While living in Columbus, she competed with a local elite team before making the leap to triathlon. Beth enjoys meeting athletes and learning about their fitness goals. Her main goal is to encourage others to reach their goals and to make running & workouts fun.

Personal Bests:
3K: 10:45
5K: 19:18
10K: 40:07
Half Marathon: 1:26
Full Marathon: 3:03
Half Ironman: 5:30
Ironman: 11:47

Sam Calderon

I have been coaching since Fall 2017. I love to run and be outside!
I ran 4 years of Division II Cross Country and Track and Field at St. Cloud State in Minnesota. I moved to the Boulder area in August 2017 with my husband and train under Brad Hudson, with the Hudson Elite.
I qualified for the 2020 US Olympic Trials in the Marathon, and am training now to run the A standard!

Morgan Stumb

Morgan is a Boulder native and has been running since the age of 7. She found her passion for the sport in high school, while running the Indian Peaks wilderness over the summers. She is adamant about finding the joy in running, whether that is being competitive, enjoying the outdoors, the solitude, or being in the company of others. Morgan believes that there is always time to fit exercise into a busy schedule, and hopes to help others do the same.

Todd Straka

Todd didn't run competitively in high school or college but took up running in his 20's wanting to hit the high notes as a rock n roll front man. He participated in local races after moving to Boulder in the 90s, but didn't hit his stride and find his legs until reaching the age of 40. Since then he has been competitive on the national level as a master's runner. And while enjoying running on trails, roads and for the zen of it, he has focused the last few years on running a fast mile for his age group.

He has previously coached with the BolderBoulder, Fast Forward and Revolution Running training groups and has been a part of the Fleet Feet Running, Runners Roost Runing, RISE Athletics, running teams and is also a member of the Boulder Road Runners and Boulder Track Club.

Todd is the race director of the springtime Dash & Dine 5k series and the Mile High Mile and enjoys supporting our run community through event promotion, storytelling and photography.

You can find him on Instagram and twitter at @BoulderRunner

Tyler Haughness

Goes by “Tyler or T-Ride”. Tyler is from Capitan, NM
with a running philosophy of work hard, but have fun while you do it.

He enjoys at Bear Peak in Boulder and the Swiss trail. Other than running, Tyler likes fising his bike and playing Ultimate Frisbee.
Tyler has won the pancho sombrero challenge at the El Paso half marathon and is a seasoned triathlete. I like to think most of my fondest acomplishments are yet to come.

Tyler is currently coaching for Shining Mountain Waldorf school as a High School Track and Field Coach, and as a Middle School Cross Country Coach. This will be his 4th season as a coach for Revolution Running, and he enjoy every minute of it.

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