Colleen and Darren De Reuck
Colleen & Darren De Reuck
Colleen De Reuck has had an impressive competitive running career dating back 23 years. She has personal bests of 2:26:35 in the marathon, 68:38 in the half marathon and 31:16 for the 10 km. She held previous World Bests for 20 km (65:11) and 10 miles (51:16). This year, it was age and experience that ruled the day as Colleen De Reuck, seemingly as fast at age 45 as she was two decades ago. At the Annual Awards Breakfast, Saturday December 5th at the 2009 USA Track & Field Annual Meeting, award winners were announced for their achievements on and off the track. Among those were Colorado’s Colleen De Reuck, named the Master’s Athlete of the Year . At 45 years old, Colleen is the oldest woman ever to win a major U.S. championship, having won the 2009 U.S. 20 km Championships by a margin of 17 seconds with a time of 67:21 which bettered her own U.S. Womens’masters record of 68:47,set here in 2005 . De Reuck took control before the halfway point of the race to win the women’s crown in 1 hour 07 minutes 21 seconds. At the Boston Marathon this year, not only was De Reuck in contention throughout the entire race, she took the lead on three separate occasions. She was crowned the masters winner and finished an astounding eighth overall, covering the course in 2:37:57. De Reuck’s other top performances in 2009 includes finishing second overall in the Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon in 2:32:37. The race also played host to the USA Masters Marathon Championships, which saw De Reuck win the W45 age group, and the USA Women’s Marathon Championships, in which she finished as the runner-up. De Reuck also won the masters division at the Falmouth Road Race and finished fifth overall. Colleen is also a personal trainer working with athletes on a part-time basis since. As a four time Olympian Colleen brings a wealth of experience and expertise to the table.
-Darren De Reuck has been coaching runners for over 20 years from recreational to club level to Olympians. He is the Owner of the Bolder Striders, a running group that caters to runners of all abilities and Head Coach Running Republic of Boulder, a USATF affiliated competitive Running Club as well as Head of Running with Boulder Coaching, a triathlon /running based organization catering to all level triathletes and runners.
Beginning in 1988, he coached club level as well as elite runners in his native South Africa. In 1993, he began serving as a training partner to his wife, Colleen De Reuck, always advising the Coach and later becoming her coach.
Starting in 2000, Darren headed up the official training club for one of the largest 10 km road races in the country, The Bolder Boulder. Drawing from his success with the Bolder Boulder Training Club, he formed The Boulder Striders in July 2002, a running group that caters to runners of all abilities. In September of the same year, he formed The Running Republic of Boulder. This group is a USATF affiliated competitive running club and includes runners who are competitive at all age-group levels. Darren has served as the head coach for both of these clubs.
Darren’s running history began in 1979 and his running accomplishments are impressive. He has run a personal best in the marathon of 2:16:28, a half marathon in 1:04:20 and 14:18 for 5000 meters. Although his impressive history contributes to his success as a coach, Darren believes the true measurement of his success is the continuous and steady progress with his runners. Darren has had great success with not only the elite athletes he has worked with, but all levels and abilities including athletes new to running.
”Having coached runners of all abilities, it is just as satisfying to watch someone break 60 minutes for the 10 km for the first time as it is to see someone break a world best on the roads. I have been coaching since 1988 and feel each day brings something new and exciting and I will continue to grow and learn and pass that onto my runners.” Darren
Stop Furlough Fridays!
Keep building the momentum...
Contact Governor Lingle and our legislators: ask them to fund furlough Fridays now!
Governor Linda Lingle
State Capitol, Room 415
Honolulu, Hawai`i 96813
Phone: (808) 586-0221 or 586-0222 or 586-0034
e-mail: governor.lingle@hawaii.gov
Senator Gary Hooser
Hawai'i State Capitol, Room 214
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
Phone 808-586-6030; from Kauai, toll free 274-3141 + 66030
e-mail:senhooser@capitol.hawaii.gov
Representative (District 14) Mina Morita
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 314
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-8435; fax 808-586-8437
from Kauai, toll free 274-3141 + 68435
e-mail:repmorita@capitol.hawaii.gov
Representative (District 16) Roland D. Sagum III
Post Office Box 25
Lawai, Kauai, Hawaii 96765
phone: 652-9811
e-mail: repsagum@capitol.hawaii.gov
Representative (District 15) James Tokioka
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 322
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-6270 (from Kauai, toll free 274-3141 + 66270)
e-mail: reptokioka@capitol.hawaii.gov
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governor.lingle@hawaii.gov
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Dear Governor Lingle:
I am writing to ask that you please work out a way to restore the 34 (17 days x 2 years) furlough days for public school teachers and students. I voted for you because of your commitment to improve the public education system in Hawaii. I am asking that you act now as to not worsen the system.
A student's academic success is directly related to the number of days he or she spends in school. Hawaii's public school students simply cannot afford to lose 34 instructional days over the next two years.
On Kauai, we have a solid middle class attendance in the public schools. These furlough days have caused some of my friends to re-think their choice to opt for public schools. This will have dire consequences for the future of the public school system on Kauai, if more and more middle class families opt out of the public schools.
Please consider tapping into the Hawaii Hurricane Relief Fund for additional sources of income, and please also consider an increase to the GE tax, as well as progressive "sin taxes."
Declining the quality of public school education in Hawaii, if only for a year or two, will impact Hawaii's people for years to come; and quite possibly, the public school system will never recover from this two-year setback.
Thank you,
YOUR NAME
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