Gina Lucrezi | Founding Trail Sisters & Running for Office

The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman

Dylan Bowman

Ultrarunning, Training, Wellness, Endurance, Health, Running, Commentary, Trailrunning, Sports, Run

5 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Gina Lucrezi is a longtime trail runner and the founder of Trail Sisters, a global organization providing education, resources, and community to female trail runners around the world. Recently Gina ran for Commissioner of Chaffee County where she lives in Buena Vista, CO. Her campaign was captured in a film made by Auteur Sportif which documents how Gina has led a life of service and how she plans to continue that work as a public servant. This is her first appearance on the podcast.

Topics discussed:

Gina's background and how the seeds of her career were planted
The founding story of Trail Sisters
Growing and nurturing the community over time
The introduction of Trail Sisters Approved standards
The future of Trail Sisters as Gina prepares to take office
Chaffee County, where it is and what makes it special
The importance of local politics and why it "gets in your blood"
The realities of campaigning, including fundraising and communication with constituents
Her goals for her term
A lot more!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey fam, welcome to the free trail podcast. Of course, I am your host, Dylan Bowman. And if you're hearing this, that means you are not in the member-only feed. It's all good. Don't worry about it. But we would very much appreciate
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0:32.1	versions of this show, along with a bunch of member-only content. I'm going to be doing AMAs and having important and
0:39.8	unfiltered conversations with the pretrial team, community members, and special guests
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0:50.8	our extremely active Slack community of international trail runners of all levels.
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1:01.9	and a lot more, including some very exciting things to be announced very soon.
1:07.8	Membership is only $96 for the year, you can learn more at free trail.com forward
1:12.5	slash pro or at the link in the show notes.
1:19.5	Today we're joined by Gina Lucrezzi, a longtime friend, trail runner and the founder of
1:24.6	Trail Sisters, a global organization providing education resources and community to female trail runners around the world.
1:32.2	Trail Sisters now has over 100 chapters, over 30,000 members in the community, more than 50,000 followers on Instagram, and they've unquestionably made a huge difference in motivating and supporting more women
1:46.2	to enjoy the great sport of trail running.
1:49.3	And it all started with Gina.
1:52.0	And aside from that project, Trail Sisters, Gina recently ran for commissioner of Chafee County
1:57.8	where she lives in Buena Vista, Colorado.
2:00.1	Her campaign was captured in a film made by friend of the show Matt Trappie at Atour
2:04.9	Sportif, which documents Gina's inspiration for running for office, her goals for her term,
2:11.3	and how her life as a runner and community organizer led her to a newfound political career. And as we were talking, it occurred to me
2:20.7	that Gina has led a life of exemplary service, something that we can all aspire to and something
2:28.6	that we discuss at length in the show today. Before we get to it, a big thank you to our sponsors as we enter a new
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