The FLRC Board of Directors holds monthly meetings to manage the operations of the club, which are governed by the FLRC bylaws. A list of the current board officers and members at large is below.
Board Meetings
The Board meets monthly (typically on the second Wednesday of the month at 6:30 PM) via Zoom. Meetings are open to the public and are announced on the FLRC Forum. If you’d like to attend, send an email message to board-meeting@fingerlakesrunners.org to receive the Zoom connection details via auto-reply. If you’d like to bring a matter before the Board, mention it in your message, and we can discuss adding it to the meeting agenda.
FLRC Board Members
Adam Engst
Adam Engst is the club president, directs FLRC’s track meets, the Hartshorne Masters Mile, and the Skunk Cabbage Classic, captains the cross-country team, times numerous races, maintains FLRC’s Internet presence, and has run everything from the mile to the marathon. He’s the CEO of a tech publishing company.
Heather Cobb
Heather organizes and captains FLRC’s regular group runs, and is a part of several other FLRC committees. She enjoys the half marathon and 50k distances (both roads and trails), and advocates for other back-of-the-pack runners like her, aiming to always bring the party barge to every race she’s in.
Diana Hackett
Having enjoyed cross country at school, Diana began road running as an adult in order to keep physically fit and also keep the head squirrels quiet. She can be persuaded to attempt nearly any distance or format, but is happiest chuffing through a half marathon. Since moving to Ithaca, she has fallen in love with trails, and finds FLRC to be an excellent source of routes, chats, and tasty snacks. During the day she can be found working at Cornell’s Mann Library.
Jesse Koennecke
Jesse is an active member of the FLRC Timing Team, volunteering for various road, trail, and track events. He is a regular at the FLRC Challenge and with the FLRC/High Noon cross country teams.
Lucia Chen
Lucia is a Taiwanese runner who began her running journey in college. After moving to Ithaca in the summer of 2023, she was amazed by the trail running culture and has loved taking part in FLRC races and challenges. She considers herself a seasonal runner, still learning to embrace Ithaca’s harsh winters—but even when she’s not racing, you’ll often find her volunteering at the events.
Amy Dawson
Amy considers herself an accidental runner who fell in love with the sport after participating in an annual challenge with her husband, Scott for a few years. Suddenly she realized she could just run without some challenge being attached. Right now she prefers trail, but that ebbs and flows. She works as a 7th grade math teacher in Trumansburg.
Scott Dawson
Scott fell in love with running in adulthood and enjoys a variety of distances, but mostly on trail. He’s completed races from the mile to 50 miles and enjoys volunteering too. He’s a user experience designer for Intercontinental Exchange and has worked remotely since 1998.
Charlie Fay
Charlie Fay is the club treasurer, is an assistant race director for the Hartshorne Masters Mile, volunteers in a variety of roles for other races, and designs course layouts for regional cross country races. He is retired from Cornell University and divides his road and trail training between Ithaca and Brittany, France.
Ian Golden
Ian is the founder and owner of the Finger Lakes Running Company, Red Newt Racing, and the Trails Collective. He enjoys focusing on trail, mountain, and ultra running, as well as his three kids. Ian started as an assistant coach with the Ithaca College women’s distance programs in 2021.
Rebecca Lambert
Rebecca re-discovered running as an adult and most enjoys long, easy runs on Ithaca’s scenic trails. She leads FLRC’s Communications Team, volunteers at club events, and in her free time works as a science writer at Princeton University.
Jon Lewis
Jon discovered a love of running whilst working on a pig farm in Queensland, Australia, then promptly moved back to the UK and realized that running clubs were really fun ways to meet people and he wasn’t actually that bad at it either. Several years later, he moved to Ithaca and tried to continue that social scene, setting up the FLRC Young at Heart Thursday group runs. He’s done a few marathons now, but isn’t sure why it keeps on happening.
Becca Lovenheim
Becca began racing cross country and track in middle school and continued racing through high school and college. Post-collegiately, she caught the marathon bug and logged many miles on the roads. Her true passion is in coaching and sharing our sport and all of its lessons with others. After wrapping up a fulfilling chapter as a head coach of the Lansing cross country and track programs, she is now just down the hill coaching outdoor track and field at Ithaca High School.
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Kate McCormick
Kate McCormick is a relatively new FLRC member but a lifelong Finger Lakes runner—born and raced in Canandaigua and an undergrad track and cross-country runner for Cornell in undergrad. Back at Cornell for her PhD, she studies puberty and mental health. You can find Kate running around with the FLRC kids on Tuesdays.
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Dirk Swart
Started running in 2024 and love it. Also swim and bike from time to time. Currently training for a marathon. Heelstriker.
Jeney Wierman
After a stint away from Ithaca, Jeney returned in 2022 for a job at Cornell as Director of MacCHESS, and to renew her acquaintance with her favorite trail runs. She’s run nearly all the trail races within a short drive of Ithaca at least once, and enjoys trail race vacations with her husband all over the country. Together, they also co-direct the Finger Lakes 50s.
Other FLRC Officers
Equipment Manager: Gary McCheyne
Webmaster: Adam Engst
Compliance Officer: Charlie Fay
Group Run Director: Heather Cobb
FLRC Board Meeting Minutes
Minutes of FLRC board meetings since 2000 are available as PDF files, linked below. Minutes starting in 2023 are available only in Google Drive.