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Outer Banks Running
Club - 2007 Minutes
OBRC Meeting Minutes
March 14, 2007
At Caribbean Pools & Spas
6:15 p.m.
-- Club approved the minutes of the February 7, 2007
meeting
-- Treasurer Jim Snyder reported that the club is now officially a
501C3 non-profit organization under the aegis of the Road Runners
Club of America's federal tax-exempt certificate. The club's
checking account through Feb. 28 showed a balance of $1,858.40. We
have quarterly expenses for the web site company and reimbursement
for expenses incurred by Laura Cortez, our VP-PR, and Yvette
Kirkpatrick, race director for the Sweet Heart 8K, to pay.
Conversely, we gained five new members since the last meeting. After
these expenses and revenues, the club's net is around $1,750.
-- The club received nice coverage of our Sweet Heart 8K in the
Outer Banks Sentinel, which printed the story and photo submitted by
Laura Cortez.
-- Coach Ari Vucinovic noted that a number of members were
participating in the Shamrock Marathon and Half, and with nicer
weather coming it's time to renew our good habit for coming to
training on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. Go to
www.outerbanksrunningclub.org for training schedule details.
-- Ed Beckley announced that our permit for a race over Wright
Brothers Monument on June 9 was turned down by the National Park
Service, because the hill itself is a historical monument. The race
is canceled and Laura is asked to take it off the web site.
Conversely, if anyone wants to run a 50-mile impromptu
ultra-marathon from Kitty Hawk to Cape Hatteras in June, as a very
informal event, contact Ed.
-- Ed informed the members that the Board of Directors voted to give
our regional RRCA representative, Lena Hollmann, our proxy to vote
for national RRCA officers at the upcoming national convention in
Chicago.
-- Ed reminded members that the club is composed of several
committees headed up by the vice presidents, including PR/external
communications/Web Site & Marketing; Finance and treasurer;
Secretary and internal communications; and, Coaching & Training/Road
Race assistance. He asked members who have expertise or interest in
these areas to consider helping out on the committees. There is not
a ton of work to do, but if everybody does just a little bit, it can
all get smoothly and efficiently done without burdening any one
individual.
-- Ann Wunderly, co-race director with Sydney Fleming for the April
28 Earth Day 8K in Kitty Hawk, addressed the club and asked for
support. She said runners and volunteers are needed on race day, and
she supplied the members with race and volunteer applications, and
educational brochures on the Carolina Estuarine Reserve Foundation,
which will be funded by the event.
-- Mike Kelly of the OBX Marathon & Half Marathon gave a nice
history of the event, and explained changes in the course routes for
2007. He introduced Robyn Keenan and John Gillam, who are key
members of the race organizing committee, and also OBRC members.
Mike said he felt the race was very successful from a tourism
standpoint, and had great community support. He said the runners
provided good feedback and enjoyed the events. He said the committee
would mulch the trail portion of Nags Head Woods again soon, so the
mulch has more time to decompose and provide better footing for the
fall race. He said they are working on course changes to make it
easier on traffic and the runners, including a potential finish in
downtown Manteo, closer to the celebration in Festival Park. He said
the group wants to alter the marathon and half marathon courses to
some degree, to get off the bypass for long stretches, and that the
route changes need to be approved by town officials and are
tentative at this time. He noted that a number of state records were
set on the course, and even though some runners felt the course
wasn't fast enough, the records are a good indicator. Mike handed
out a sheet listing all the states and nations represented in the
event, which went all the way down the page. Ed lauded the committee
for their daily dedication to putting on the event, which has been a
labor of time and talent for two years, with much more hard work
ahead for 2007.
-- The Chesapeake, VA, Athlete's Foot shoe store proprietor Tommy
Schuster demonstrated the innovative KanGoo JUMPS rehabilitation and
exercise shoe product for members, and a couple meeting attendees
tried it out. The product is an impact protection system that gives
athletes a great VO2 max workout while reducing the impact force to
the ground up to 80 percent. OBRC members get a 10 percent discount
at the store, which is adjacent to the new Target store in south
Chesapeake.
-- Ed noted that the club has had monthly meetings to date this
year, but we're only required to meet quarterly. We've met
frequently because we've had a lot of business with which to attend,
but we are on top of it, and we can afford to meet less frequently
unless unexpected important business requires us to call a special
meeting in between. The next meeting will be on June 13 at 6:15 p.m.
at Caribbean Pools & Spas in Kill Devil Hills.
-- The members had no other new business to discuss and the meeting
adjourned
Many thanks to Jim Snyder, owner of Caribbean Pools & Spas, for
continuing to host our meetings at his beautiful showroom and
offices just north of mile post 6 on the west side of the bypass.
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