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2019 AMBASSADORS

One of the requirements to fulfill the 3W ambassador program is for ambassadors to volunteer at least once at a charity of their choice. Below are our 2019 Ambassadors and a few fun questions we asked them, including their favorite local charity.

3W Races' Motto:
 

"Do What You Can, When You Can, Where You Are"

AMBASSADORS ONLY

2019 3W Races Ambassadors


Vikki F.

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Location: Westminster
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Broomfield Fish
Favorite Running/Walking Distance: The Marathon
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: Popsicles and beer
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: Burrito

Tina C.

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Location: Highlands Ranch
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Dumb Friends League
Favorite Running/Walking Distance: 10k
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: Water/protein shake and a banana
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race:​ Cinnamon Bun

Tiffany L.

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Location: Aurora
Favorite LOCAL Charity: A Precious Child
Favorite Running/Walking Distance: Half Marathon
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: Pizza and Kneaders French Toast/Soda
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race:​ MORE water and a plain bagel

​Susan D.

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Location: Arvada
Favorite LOCAL Charity: OWL (Open World Learning)
Favorite Running/Walking Distance: 10K
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: Wine! At the Napa to Sonoma Half
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: Egg Nog

Susan S.

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Location: Parker
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Parker Task Force
Favorite Running/Walking Distance: Half Marathon
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: Fried Avocado Slices
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: "I don't really like beer after a race. I'm probably the only one that will say this!"

Sarah H.

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Location: Westminster
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Collier Hospice at Lutheran Hospital
Favorite Running/Walking Distance: 10 Mile
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: Mother's Day brunch at Kachina after the Colorado Women's Classic.
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: Fajitas after running the red loop in 90 degrees at Ragnar Snowmass

Sarah L.

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Location: Denver
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Providence Network
Favorite Running/Walking Distance: 5K
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: Soft Pretzel
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: n/a

Sara F.

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Location: Arvada
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Urban Peak
Favorite Running/Walking Distance: Half Marathon
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: Chocolate Mile, Cheezits, then Beer!
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: Tequila 

Reinaldo R.

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Location: Westminster
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Growing Home
Favorite Running/Walking Distance: Half Marathon
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: Pizza
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: A very salty energy drink

Rebecca G.

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Rachel D.

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Location: Centennial
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Girls Inc.
Favorite Running/Walking Distance: 5K working up to a 10K
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: Chocolate Milk after my first  half marathon...helped better than hour massage!
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: Mac and Cheese...whoops!

Paula P.

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Location: Westminster
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Do Over Dogs Rescue
Favorite Running/Walking Distance: Half Marathon
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: Beer
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: Nothing! I can eat whatever I want!

Nathan L

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Location: Westminster
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Denver Dumb Friends League
Favorite Running/Walking Distance: Marathon
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: Beer!
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: Any Solid Food

Natalie B.

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Morgan H.

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Location: Broomfield
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Precious Child
Favorite Running/Walking Distance: 10 Miles
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: Beer and Bacon!
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: Gatorade

Mitchell G.

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Location: Westminster
Favorite LOCAL Charity: My Team Triumph
Favorite Running/Walking Distance: any distance greater than zero miles.
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: Protein Berry Smoothie
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: Hydration Drink Mixed with Dirt

Melissa S.

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Location: Brighton
Favorite LOCAL charity: Christmas Crusade and Cops Fighting Cancer 
Favorite Running/Walking Distance: 5k
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: Pizza/Hot Chocolate
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: "Can’t think of anything right now. If I don’t like it I just skip it usually."

Matt K.

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Location: Highlands Ranch
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Pura Vida
Favorite Running/Walking Distance:  13.1
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: Beer...Two beers!
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: Not beer

Marley S.

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Location: Westminster
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Almost Home Adoptions
Favorite Running/Walking Distance: 8 Miles in the Hills
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: "A chicken sandwich and fries from McDonald's after running the Grand Canyon Rim2Rim2Rim (I never eat that crap, but after burning 5000 calories over 16 hours on my feet, it was glorious!)"
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: "Probably that damn chicken sandwich and fries - I don't want to think about what the ingredients are in those items!"

Lisa A.

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Location: Berthoud
Favorite LOCAL Charity: The Inn Between
Favorite Running/Walking Distance:  6 miles
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post Race: Mango Smoothie
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: Taco

Libby B.

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Location: Lakewood
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Denver Museum of Nature and Science 
Favorite Running/Walking Distance:  10 miles!
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: An ice cold margarita!
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: A crunchy banana... I don't know why it was crunchy....

Laura P.

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Location: Thornton
Favorite LOCAL Charity: A Precious Child
Favorite Running/Walking Distance:  5k
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: The beer after the Bolder Boulder
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: Doughnuts

Kim B.

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Location: Highlands Ranch
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Alzheimer's Association,
Favorite Running/Walking Distance:  13.1
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: Banana Popsicle
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: "After Berlin, I tried he nonalcoholic beer but I don’t like alcohol in general it was more to say I did it."

Keith L.

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Location: Aurora
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Colfax Community Network
Favorite Running/Walking Distance:  Half Marathon
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: Watermelon
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: Coconut Water

Kasey T. 

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Location: Frederick
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Longmont Humane Society
Favorite Running/Walking Distance:  Half Marathon
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: Pizza
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: Warm Beer

Karen R.

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Location: Westminster
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Broomfield FISH
Favorite Running/Walking Distance:  10k
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: Egg Nog
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: Nothing if I forgot a water bottle! 

Kaira M.

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Location: Westminster
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Broomfield Fish
Favorite Running/Walking Distance:  10k
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: "Behind the Rocks Ultra had oranges that seemed to be from the garden of Eden! So yummy!"
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: A non-craft beer

Julie S.

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Jenny J.

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Location: Broomfield
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Project Safeguard
Favorite Running/Walking Distance:  26.2
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: Beer
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: Also beer, lol

Jen J.

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Location: Brighton
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Special Olympics Colorado
Favorite Running/Walking Distance:  10k
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: Chocolate Milk and bacon
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: Mushy Banana!

Jason F.

Jack B.

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Location: Brighton
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Almost Home
Favorite Running/Walking Distance:  10k
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: A frosty beer
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: A frosty milk...that I thought was a beer! 

Hope W.

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Location: Centennial
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Women's Bean Project
Favorite Running/Walking Distance:  Half Marathon
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: Chocolate Milk
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: Chocolate Milk

Heath J.

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Location: Buena Vista
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Vitalant (used to be Bonfils)
Favorite Running/Walking Distance:  Half Marathon
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: Pancakes
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: Sour Milk!

Erin A.

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Location: Arvada
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Mile High Lab Mission
Favorite Running/Walking Distance:  5k
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: Shrimp tacos and a margarita
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: Coconut Water

Erica H.

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Location: Westminster
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Extended Hands of Hope
Favorite Running/Walking Distance:  50K
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: "Salt/Vinegar Chips and the popsicles in the summer and Freak Bothers Pizza and orange slices and M&Ms... you get the idea."
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: Bananas - Yuck!

Elizabeth D.

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Location: Arvada
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Hope House
Favorite Running/Walking Distance: n/a
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: Chocolate Milk from Longmont Dairy
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: n/a

Debby H.

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David H.

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Location: Thornton
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Denver Chapter of the American Diabetes Association and Dumb Friends League
Favorite Running/Walking Distance: Half Marathon
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race:  Pancakes with lots of syrup
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: "Not sure what it was but the goody bag was for my furry running buddy ..."

Crystal W.

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Location: Broomfield
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Friends 
Favorite Running/Walking Distance: 5k
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: Gatorade Lime
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: Any sweet drinks, gross

Claire H.

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Location: Broomfield
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Broomfield FISH
Favorite Running/Walking Distance: 10k
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: Grapefruit La Croix with a splash of OJ
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: crow! when i didn't hit my goal

Cindy V.

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Location: Arvada
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Community Table (Arvada Community Food Bank)
Favorite Running/Walking Distance: 10k
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: Buffalitos with a Blue Moon
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: Chocolate Cashew Milk

Bryan B.

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Location: Arvada
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Almost Home
Favorite Running/Walking Distance: 5k
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: BBQ
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: Hot Shots

Brett S. 

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Location: Dacono
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Medicine Horse Ranch
Favorite Running/Walking Distance: 10 Miles
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: Cheeseburger and a cold draft beer
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: Sneakz Organic Veggie Nutrition Milkshake

Bill W. 

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Location: Centennial
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Habitat for Humanity
Favorite Running/Walking Distance: Marathon
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: Chocolate Milk
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: Beef Jerky

Betty G. 

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Location: Lafeyette
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Sister Carmen
Favorite Running/Walking Distance: Half Marathon
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: Icy Cold Beer...and I don't even like beer!
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: Oh, there's bad stuff - nope, haven't found that yet.

Becky C. 

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Location: Westminster
Favorite LOCAL Charity: DDRC
Favorite Running/Walking Distance: 10 mile - half marathon
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: Popsicles on hot races, hot cider on cold ones
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: Bagel with cream cheese (should have skipped the cream cheese)

Andy T.

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Location: Broomfield
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Children's Hospital
Favorite Running/Walking Distance: 5k (or anything short)
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: Beer!
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: Beer or Red Bull

Andrew B. 

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Location: Denver
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Colorado Veterans Project
Favorite Running/Walking Distance: 10k/Half Marathon
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: Beer
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: This weird coconut strawberry smoothie

Amy K.

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Location: Arvada
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Summit Dog Rescue
Favorite Running/Walking Distance: 13.1
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: Apples and Peanut Butter
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: Beer (I know, I know...weird!) 

Amy Y.

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​Location: Evergeen
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Golden Retriever Rescue
Favorite Running/Walking Distance: Half Marathon
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: Fresh grilled quesadilla with homemade tortillas and a cold coke​
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: "Very green or rotten bananas - I didn’t eat them but was very disappointed"

Amanda H. 

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Location: Aurora
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Rocky Mountain Feline Rescue
Favorite Running/Walking Distance: 13.1
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: Popsicle
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: Beer

Alyssa H.

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Location: Westminter
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Hope's Promise
Favorite Running/Walking Distance: 10k
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: PB Love Co Cinnamon Almond Butter
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: Eggnog

AJ B.

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Location: Arvada
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Precious Child
Favorite Running/Walking Distance: 5k
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: Watermelon
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: Beer

Abby S.

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Location: Arvada
Favorite LOCAL Charity: Colorado 14er Initiative
Favorite Running/Walking Distance: 10k/Half Marathon
BEST Food/Drink You've Had Post-Race: Cherry Icepop
WORST Food/Drink Post-Race: "Arby’s - Because when are you ever happy to have eaten Arby’s?"
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