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Vega Brhely - President & Founder
[email protected] Vega moved to the Roaring Fork Valley from Boulder with her partner, Erik Obermeyer, in 2017. She is a Licensed Acupuncturist, USAC coach, and IBFI Level 3 Certified Advanced Professional Bike Fitter who owns Hill Climb Acupuncture & Bike Fit in Basalt. Vega has had a lifelong love affair with bicycles and is passionate about getting more women on bikes. She spent grad school racing her road bike in Chicago and Boulder. Since "retiring" from road racing, she has participated in Bike MS as a top Colorado fundraiser for the past 10 years, completed the Double Triple Bypass, raced the local bike park series, has tested the waters of gravel racing with an age group win at the FoCo Fondo, and is now looking forward to a second month-long trip to Whistler to improve her technical mountain biking skills. Vega created Inspire Cycling out of the collective desire that many clients and friends expressed to have more ladies to ride with for fun. She loves connecting people and building community and encourages women to find their potential both on and off the bike. |
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Molly Josephson - Vice President, Community Outreach Director
[email protected] Molly is a philosopher and writer who moved to the Valley in 2020 after teaching and earning dual degrees in North Carolina and California. In a previous life, she maintained a 14-year running streak, ran the Boston marathon, did sprint triathlons, spent a decade as an ocean lifeguard, and rowed surfboats competitively in the Atlantic. She got into MTB a couple years ago as a way to exercise her very active pup while recovering from knee surgery. After completing the White Rim (supporting the Treadsetters para-FKT effort) in a day in 2022 using a secondhand bike, she is now fully hooked! Her day-to-day involves meditation, mindful movement, and studying topics like pain neuroscience, body neutrality, and energy availability. She aims to disrupt the patriarchy and improve the experience of women in sport. She loves philosophizing out on the trail and is always stoked to go for a ride! |
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Kelsey Czyzyk - Secretary
[email protected] Kelsey is fresh to the Roaring Fork Valley having moved to Carbondale in spring 2025, and immediately started exploring every trail and river she could fine. She's a river-restoration engineer who designs whitewater parks and surf waves, and when she's off the clock, she's usually outside pretending she can juggle a dozen outdoor hobbies at once. A lifelong multi-sport enthusiast (heavy on the enthusiasm, light on the "sport" part), she mountain bikes, gravel rides, rock climbs, river SUPs, and slides on snow in all the forms: resort laps, backcountry missions, Nordic romps, and the occasional "Free the heel" tele day just for the steeze. Before settling in the valley, she self-converted an ambulance into a camper van and lived on the road for a year exploring trails, rivers, rock, and snow across the U.S. Keep an eye out for Redgie, the big red campulance that still bops around the valley. She's passionate about community, connection, and helping more women feel confident and welcomed in the outdoors. In 2026, she's excited to try some low-key gravel bikepacking routes, ideally ending at a coffee shop or brewery with new friends! |
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Megan Blaszak - Treasurer
[email protected] Megan is a Michigander who moved to the Roaring Fork Valley in 2019 to pursue a new career and way of life. When she's not working as a social worker, she can be found out on the trails or roads in every season. An avid ultra runner, she rediscovered biking after an unfortunate injury in 2022 and now owns more bikes than she has room for. In the winter, she spends most of her time skiing (uphill and downhill), nordic skiing, and playing hockey. She enjoys all adventures, big and small, and believes the best ones always involve friends (and cheese). |
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Jackie Skramstad - Sponsorship Director
[email protected] Jackie grew up in the Roaring Fork Valley. After high school she lived in the Bay Area in California before moving back "home" to the Valley. She is a social worker in the valley and believes in the healing power of nature and the outdoors. Jackie loves to spend time hiking, backpacking, cycling, stand up paddle-boarding, cross country skiing and is currently trying out trail running. She is always up for an adventure outdoors and wants to inspire others to get out in nature. She joined the Inspire Cycling board to support opportunities for women to come together and create community around their shared love of cycling and being active outdoors. |
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Jaime Fiske - Social Media Director [email protected] Originally from Aurora, CO, Jaime moved to the valley in 2009 and has been an active part of the community ever since. With a passion for fitness and inspiring others, she is dedicated to helping others achieve their goals through cycling. Jaime's first triathlon was the Glenwood Triathlon in 2011, and she competed again in 2013. She was part of the Roaring Fork Women's Triathlon Team from 2014-2016. During this time, Jaime helped plan yearly women's rides to support Shannon Galpin's mission of enabling women to ride bikes in Afghanistan. In addition to her love of cycling, Jaime owns SUP Marble with her mom, where she shares her passion for stand-up paddleboarding and connecting with others on the water. She is excited to be part of the Inspire Cycling board! |
Ride Leaders
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Claudia Capitini
Claudia is an avid biker after a lifetime of competitive running, field hockey and various backcountry sports. When she is not working as a sustainability scientist and communicator, she can usually be found on her mountain or road bike somewhere in the Valley. Claudia finally moved to the area full time after some 15 years of commuting from Boulder and Seattle. In Boulder, she was on several local bike club teams and could regularly be found adventuring unabashedly around Boulder in bike kit. Claudia learned to mountain bike as a 'grown up' and has also dabbled in gravel riding more recently. Because of this, she loves to ride local trails all across the Western Slope that are flowy and fun - with the ultimate goal of avoiding crashes and drama. She is always up for some intervals or a fun challenge if you are down to join! |
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Lily Binford
Lily, our former Secretary and Membership Director, is still relatively new to the RFV but hardly new to bikes. While attending the University of Texas at Austin, she joined forty other students to complete the Texas 4000, the longest annual charity bicycle ride in the world: a seventy-day, 4000-mile journey from Austin to Anchorage on a Trek 1500. This experience introduced her to long-distance cycling, and she's been happily rolling on tow wheels ever since. She moved to Rifle, CO in 2021 from Dallas, TX with her husband James and husky Haze. She recently expanded from road to MTB, and again to gravel. Lily currently teaches middle school science at Two Rivers Community School in Glenwood Springs, where she finds every opportunity to get her students outdoors to explore the natural world. She enjoys camping, hiking, crafting, reading, skiing, and, you guessed it, cycling. Find Lily leading rides way out in California (actually just New Castle and Rifle). |
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Heidi Kanayan Heidi is thrilled to join the Inspire Cycling organization and to help spread the love and empowerment of cycling to all. Cycling has taken her to parts of our country she never thought she would see; to countries she only dreamed of riding in; and it showed her that she can overcome anything by putting her head down and just taking things one pedal stroke at a time. It has also been her saving grace that has helped her overcome numerous injuries in her time as a professional ski instructor and achieve her goals within the ski industry. To say that cycling is her life blood is an understatement. Outside of her time with Inspire, she coaches mountain biking and conducts staff training for the Snowmass Bike Park and Roaring Fork Cycling along with part time coaching at the Aspen Dirtbike School (yes moto, lol). During her 25 years in racing she participated in Cross Country, Cyclocross (pro), Downhill, Enduro (pro) and dabbled a bit with road crits. Her winters are spent teaching skiing for ASC. Now that her racing days are shifting to coaching and fun rides, she is looking forward to riding and sharing trail snacks with all of you. Her favorite rides are ones outside on a bike. Let's ride! |
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Jennifer Ellsperman
Jen is a recently retired educator, having taught for 31 years in Loveland, New Castle, and Basalt (mostly in middle grades). Her last 9 years of work were as the principal of Basalt Middle School. Now, she is working part-time as a field supervisor for CMC, observing and supporting CMC students in the teacher-training program to build confidence and skills in the classroom. Jen loves mountain biking, hiking with her two yellow labs, yoga, reading, SUPping on the river, camping, and all kinds of skiing (up, down, Xctry). She renewed her WRF (Wilderness First Responder) last year, although she hopes not to need to use it! Being active outside and sharing experiences with others is what she's all about. |
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Dakota Cloud
A four-decade endurance athlete with a serious appetite for big rides and bigger landscapes, Dakota has logged cycling adventures that span continents and climates. Her rides include a 5,600-mile journey from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to San Francisco, California, crossing 11 states; 600 rugged gravel and road miles through Patagonia; 500 mountainous miles in southern Spain; 300 miles in South Africa; and 300 miles across the Italian Dolomites. She has competed in iconic events including the Cape Town Cycle Tour, the world’s largest timed bike race, and the legendary Maratona dles Dolomites in Italy, and finished 4th overall in the Coconut Grove Bike Race. Her endurance background extends beyond cycling. She is a multiple-time participant, and frequent top three finisher in sprint, Olympic, and half-Ironman triathlons, a decorated swimmer with 11 medals from the Maccabi Games, numerous podium finishes in competitive masters swimming and has completed ten 29029 Everesting events finishing top 5 overall each time. Closer to home, she is a familiar face at classic Colorado endurance rides, having multiple times completed Ride the Rockies, Triple Bypass, Double Triple Bypass, Copper Triangle, Scenic Byway, and other high-altitude sufferfests - always chasing the line between grit, joy, and what she fondly calls “type-3 fun.” |