{"id":15090,"date":"2019-05-12T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T04:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/one-last-mile-for-nancy-friends-community-turn-out-to-remember-reinisch\/"},"modified":"2019-05-13T08:07:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T14:07:15","slug":"one-last-mile-for-nancy-friends-community-turn-out-to-remember-reinisch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/one-last-mile-for-nancy-friends-community-turn-out-to-remember-reinisch\/","title":{"rendered":"One last mile for Nancy: Friends, community turn out to remember Reinisch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery\" readability=\"6.78125\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-978090-589\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/MothersDayMile-gpi-051319-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/05\/one-last-mile-for-nancy-friends-community-turn-out-to-remember-reinisch.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kyle Mills \/ Post Independent | Runners start heat 2 of the Mother\u2019s Day Mile Sunday morning at Glenwood Springs High School. More than 400 people turned out to honor Nancy Reinisch with one last Mother\u2019s Day Mile, an event that she helped create.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"7.5\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/05\/one-last-mile-for-nancy-friends-community-turn-out-to-remember-reinisch.jpg\" alt=\"Runners start heat 2 of the Mother\u2019s Day Mile Sunday morning at Glenwood Springs High School. More than 400 people turned out to honor Nancy Reinisch with one last Mother\u2019s Day Mile, an event that she helped create.\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"10\">\n<p><strong>Runners start heat 2 of the Mother\u2019s Day Mile Sunday morning at Glenwood Springs High School. More than 400 people turned out to honor Nancy Reinisch with one last Mother\u2019s Day Mile, an event that she helped create.<\/strong><br \/>Kyle Mills \/ Post Independent<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/MothersDayMile-gpi-051319-1-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/05\/one-last-mile-for-nancy-friends-community-turn-out-to-remember-reinisch-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kyle Mills \/ Post Independent | Nancy Reinisch\u2019s sons Marco and Chas Salmen share an embrace after finishing heat 1 of the Mother\u2019s Day Mile Sunday in Glenwood Springs.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"6.5\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/05\/one-last-mile-for-nancy-friends-community-turn-out-to-remember-reinisch-1.jpg\" alt=\"Nancy Reinisch\u2019s sons Marco and Chas Salmen share an embrace after finishing heat 1 of the Mother\u2019s Day Mile Sunday in Glenwood Springs.\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Nancy Reinisch\u2019s sons Marco and Chas Salmen share an embrace after finishing heat 1 of the Mother\u2019s Day Mile Sunday in Glenwood Springs.<\/strong><br \/>Kyle Mills \/ Post Independent<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/MothersDayMile-gpi-051319-1-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/05\/one-last-mile-for-nancy-friends-community-turn-out-to-remember-reinisch-2.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kyle Mills \/ Post Independent | Marco Salmen and Gus Lundin battle neck and neck to the finish in the first heat Sunday. Salmen and Lundin finish was too close to call, so it was called a tie.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"7\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/05\/one-last-mile-for-nancy-friends-community-turn-out-to-remember-reinisch-2.jpg\" alt=\"Marco Salmen and Gus Lundin battle neck and neck to the finish in the first heat Sunday. Salmen and Lundin finish was too close to call, so it was called a tie.\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"9\">\n<p><strong>Marco Salmen and Gus Lundin battle neck and neck to the finish in the first heat Sunday. Salmen and Lundin finish was too close to call, so it was called a tie.<\/strong><br \/>Kyle Mills \/ Post Independent<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/MothersDayMile-gpi-051319-1-3-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/05\/one-last-mile-for-nancy-friends-community-turn-out-to-remember-reinisch-3.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kyle Mills \/ Post Independent | Julie Olson, executive director of Advocate Safehouse Project congratulates Gus Lundin and Marco Salmen for their shared victory Sunday in the Mother\u2019s Day Mile.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"7\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/05\/one-last-mile-for-nancy-friends-community-turn-out-to-remember-reinisch-3.jpg\" alt=\"Julie Olson, executive director of Advocate Safehouse Project congratulates Gus Lundin and Marco Salmen for their shared victory Sunday in the Mother\u2019s Day Mile.\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"9\">\n<p><strong>Julie Olson, executive director of Advocate Safehouse Project congratulates Gus Lundin and Marco Salmen for their shared victory Sunday in the Mother\u2019s Day Mile.<\/strong><br \/>Kyle Mills \/ Post Independent<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/one-last-mile-for-nancy-friends-community-turn-out-to-remember-reinisch\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/one-last-mile-for-nancy-friends-community-turn-out-to-remember-reinisch\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">With John Lennon\u2019s classic \u201cImagine\u201d ringing out over the loudspeakers, Nancy Reinisch\u2019s husband, Paul Salmen, and her sons, Chas and Marco Salmen, didn\u2019t have to imagine all the people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Approximately 500 community members surrounded the family as they logged one more mile for Nancy Sunday during the return of the Mother\u2019s Day Mile in Glenwood Springs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThis is a really uplifting day for me, to see so much energy out of people here,\u201d Marco Salmen said. \u201cThere have been a few sad days, but this is not one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">With a blue-sky backdrop, family, friends and community members recounted memories and reconnected over conversation about Nancy and all she did in her life. Reinisch, a longtime Glenwood Springs resident and avid runner, died this past February after a second battle with breast cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI think Nancy would be proud. She might even have liked the fact we are at the high school,\u201d said Julie Olson, executive director of Advocate Safehouse Project, the main beneficiary of the Mother\u2019s Day Mile for all those years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cNancy would be honored that this many people showed up today, and just to have fun and honor moms,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Board member Jacque McMillan said Paul Salmen and his family got in touch with Advocate Safehouse Project and asked if they could do Mother\u2019s Day Mile one more time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe just wanted to make it a really special day for her. She touched so many lives in the valley,\u201d McMillan said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">With three different heats, from serious runners in heat one to everyday walkers in the final heat of the day, there was an event for everyone to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt just means a lot to me, and feels so good that something she started gets people moving,\u201d Marco added. \u201cSo proud of my mom. I was always really proud of her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Marco and his brother, Chas, got the event started with an electrifying race against friend and Glenwood Springs resident, and former GSHS track teammate, Gus Lundin, in the fast heat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">After the three exchanged the lead multiple times during the four laps, it came down to the finish as both Marco and Lundin lunged for the line, simultaneously stopping the clock at just over 5 minutes, with Chas just footsteps behind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Added Marco, \u201cThis was a really fun day for me. I haven\u2019t run on this track in many years, and to be running with my good buddies and brother \u2014 coming around the home stretch to a community of people cheering you on, on a beautiful day \u2014 honestly it doesn\u2019t get much better than that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe are going to remember this one for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Tagline\"><a href=\"mailto:kmills@postindependent.com\">kmills@postindependent.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Runners start heat 2 of the Mother\u2019s Day Mile Sunday morning at Glenwood Springs High School. More than 400 people turned out to honor Nancy Reinisch with one last Mother\u2019s Day Mile, an event that she helped create.Kyle Mills \/ Post Independent Nancy Reinisch\u2019s sons Marco and Chas Salmen share an embrace after finishing heat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 18:29:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15097,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15090\/revisions\/15097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}