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Jessica, better known as "Jess", grew up in Newport News, Virginia and after high school made her way to New Kent County and eventually the Williamsburg area, where she now lives with her husband, Dave, youngest of three daughters, Felicity and their 3 dogs and two cats. Jess discovered her love for running in her late twenties after finding fitness for the first time in her life in 2006. What began as at home workout videos, transitioned into short runs around her neighborhood, and eventually to her first 5k race in 2010 in Newport News, with the Peninsula Track Club. Her 27:15 finish earned her a 1st place age group run, and she suddenly had the running bug. She wouldn't run another local 5k race however until April 2012 at the Run the DOG 5k, but the mileage she built up in those 2 years resulted in a faster finish time and her deciding to join the Colonial Road Runners and participate in races regularly. During this time, she also started the first elementary run club in New Kent County, called Otters on the Run, to inspire young people to fall in love with running like she did. She was also a regular participating in the PTC track workouts at Tabb High School, which is where she met her husband and now business partner. Eventually 5ks became 10ks, 10ks led to her first half marathon in 2013, and that led her to decide to run her first full in November of 2014. At age 33 she managed a 3:33:43 at Richmond Marathon and placed 33rd in her age group. While she no longer runs the marathon distance, she still enjoys the occasional local 5K and 10k, is a regular at Orangetheory Fitness in Williamsburg and participates in the Virginia Run for Cancer 24 hour race each year with Team Wingnutz. Being able to transition her love of running and the running community to supporting them through a local run specialty store is a dream come true. She also happens to be the local Delegate of the 71st, but when you see her out and about, or at the store, she's just Jess :)
Dave grew up in Falmouth MA, home of the world-famous Falmouth Road Race. Growing up Dave played baseball and hockey, he didn't make the baseball team his senior year of high school, so his friends convinced him to run track where he ran the 800m, 400m and high jumped. Dave is a 1991 graduate of Massachusetts Maritime Academy where he majored in Marine Engineering and played four years of Rugby. Dave moved to Yorktown Virginia in 1996 for a shore side Maritime job with Maersk, in 2005 he took a one-year assignment at the Maersk headquarters in Copenhagen Denmark a subsequently spent three years in Geoje South Korea as a newbuild representative for several shipbuilding projects for Maersk. In 2009 Dave was reassigned to a shipbuilding project in San Diego CA, where he also took up running. Dave's first half marathon was the San Diego Rock'n'Roll half in 2010. In December 2010 Dave moved back to VA where he continued to run, he joined the Peninsula Track Club and began running weekly track intervals and competing in the local 5 & 10K races. Dave ran his first marathon in 2011 at the Outer Banks Marathon and has run a total of about 14 marathons since, including Boston Marathon in 2016 and 2018. Dave is the Vice President of the Colonial Road Runners and a USATF Course Certifier. Besides running, Dave's hobbies include sailing, working on cars, hiking in the VA mountains and spending time with his wife Jess and their three dogs and two cats.
Derek is a Williamsburg track legend; he is a 2014 graduate of Lafayette high school where he ran a 1:49.9 800m his senior year only to improve to his lifetime best of 1:45. After high school Derek went on to run pro for a couple years before attending Junior College in Colorado then onto run for Western Oregon. Derek is a professional middle-distance runner, a six-time NJCAA national champion, two-time Olympic Trials qualifier, and 2023 USA finalist. Prior to coming onboard with Colonial Athletics Derek has worked in run specialty stores in Portland OR, Seattle, WA, NOVA and Blacksburg VA. Derek is well versed in run shoe fit and our shoe guru.
Dereks Career highlights:
Team USA member for the Pan American Games
USA finalist at 800m in 2023
6th fastest 800m runner in 2022
Two Time Olympic Trials qualifier
6x Junior College Champion
1x National High School Champion
8x State Champion
Personal Records:
800m 1:45.37
1000m 2:20.05
1500 3:45
5k 15:15
10k XC 32:09
10 miler 55:37
Josh is a 2026 Graduate of Lafayette High School where he wrestled and ran XC/T&F. Josh is currently taking classes at VPCC and working part time with us at Colonial Athletics. Josh plans to attend a University in the Spring of 2027 with aspirations of running on a top tier NCAA team.