Marisa Bowning: Member at Large
Marisa initially joined the board wanting to help out more with the club’s social media while giving back to the club that has given her so much in the way of opportunity. Call it fate, luck, destiny, whatever you want, she was ultimately pulled into the flyer. Being nervous about posting her first article, she was relieved when she got compliments left and right.
Marisa is now going on her third term with the board helping to write the engaging articles that members love to read about. It rekindled that passion for writing that she completely forgot about. The first term was about generally rekindling the joy for writing she had when she was younger with recapping races or her own experiences in the running realm. This term, and moving forward, she’s really looking to challenge herself.
This club wouldn’t be what it is today almost half a century after it was founded if it wasn’t for the members and Marisa wants to really highlight that more by encouraging members to write for the flyer. She aims to stretch the methods of expression about running in new and fun ways. There’s been snippets of this observed already with a few pieces published in recent months. Marisa is really looking forward to extending the lengths of how running can be expressed.