Team Members

Growing up in Russia Olga competed in Nordic skiing thru high school and college. After coming to US  she picked up trail running quickly transitioning to ultra marathons.  She has a multiple 100 miler finishes under her belt and has earned a couple of USA Track and Field masters national championship titles in ultra distances including 50 miles and 100 miles trail runs.

Fascinated by orienteering stories of her best friend Olga looked up a Rochester Orienteering club in 2014 and shortly started to race 24-hour Rogaines with Stina Bridgeman. After listening to Stina’s adventure racing stories Olga gave in, and in 2016 bought a bike and a kayak and started adventure racing.

In September 2020, gearing up for her 50th birthday, Olga designed a 12-hour course for USARA 2020 Virtual Championships and raced it with other women who were completely new to adventure racing.  During that race Olga realized that her real passion is to bring more women into Adventure Racing and she founded a Fragile Flowers Adventure Racing company.

Stina first learned map and compass navigation in the context of searchand rescue, which then led to orienteering and before long, 24-hour rogaines.  Familiar with canoeing from canoe-camping trips growing up, she started kayaking in 2006 because a kayak seemed easier to manage solo than a canoe, never expecting the adventures that would lead to – including circumnavigating each of the Finger Lakes (culminating in a 27-hour 83 mile circuit of Cayuga Lake), paddling the Maine coast from Portland to Bar Harbor, and a tradition of full moon paddles in all months of the year.  In 2012, after several years of reading writeups from a friend’s adventure races, she finally took the plunge, bought a mountain bike, and has been falling off it ever since.  In the winter Stina switches to XC skis, competing in ski orienteering and biathlon.

Race accomplishments include eight 24-30 hour adventure races with an all-female team (Wilderness Traverse (5x), The Longest Day (2x), and the Maine Summer Adventure Race), numerous shorter adventure races and 24-hour rogaines, and not finishing dead last at the 2015 World Ski Orienteering Championships in Norway

Laura started her outdoor adventure lifestyle as a road runner, it quickly transitioned to trail running and ultra distances. After taking a break from running, Laura completed her 46 Adirondack high peaks and 48 high peaks in NYS in 2020! Expanding her adventure repertoire she has found excitement in a variety of other activities such as kayaking, mountain biking, gravel biking, snow shoeing and SUPing, among many other things! She is a newbie to Adventure Racing with 3 AR’s scheduled in 2021 and is looking forward to learning more skills such as orienteering and canoeing. At home she enjoys learning about nutrition and pouring over trail maps.

You’ll find Katie on the trails around Rochester all times of the year! She is new to adventure racing, but has been mountain biking, trail running, and orienteering (on foot and skis!) for a few years. She also raced for Clarkson University’s Nordic Ski Team in college and has climbed all 46 Adirondack High Peaks.  Katie is passionate about getting more girls into all outdoor endurance sports, and especially loves coaching Nordic (cross country) skiing. Off the trails, Katie is a PhD student studying computational microscopy at the University of Rochester.

Shea Coleman started running in 2012. Shea enjoys trail running the most and has completed several ultra marathons, with distances ranging from 50k to 100 miles. Shea also enjoys multi sport activities and participates in running, biking, and swimming whenever she can. Although Shea enjoys racing and finding out what she is capable of, it’s even more common to see her on the sidelines volunteering and helping her fellow athletes achieve their goals. Shea’s future plans include becoming more involved in orienteering and adventure racing. When Shea is not testing her physical limits, she enjoys relaxing on her small farm with pet pigs, horses, dogs, and cats. 

Growing up playing sports for which running was seen as a punishment, Erin took the long route to adventure racing. Post-college she dabbled in road running before finding the trails (fun!), the woods that flanked the trails as an orienteer and rogainer (more fun!)…and then she bought a bike.

Since her first adventure race in 2017 (the 10-hour Maine Summer AR), she’s competed in numerous 24-30 hour events and is eager for an enthusiastic return to post-COVID racing. Highlights include three all-female short-course finishes at Wilderness Traverse and a second-place USARA National Championship finish in 2019. 

Erin works as a community pharmacist and lives in Pike, NY with her husband and beloved pets (well, the husband’s beloved too, lest that statement give you the wrong idea…)