THANKS TO ALL WHO HELPED TO MAKE THE FIRST ANNUAL ADIRONDACK NORTH COUNTRY RACE WEEKEND A HUGE SUCCESS!
I need to keep this short because I have been neglecting my “real job” due to the races, but wanted to get a heartfelt thanks out to all of you who volunteered for our wonderfully successful event this weekend. We could never have done it without you! The comments from racers and local residents and businesses have been almost 100% positive and a lot of that is due to the courteous, helpful, and hardworking spirit that the Team and the volunteers projected. Two excellent courses and a weatherman who was very kind to us didn’t hurt either!
I can’t begin to name all the people who were key in the effort, but I want to recognize especially Bill McGreevy, my co-director for the Wilmington-Whiteface Road Race, and his wife Paula and all their family, and Hal Schmidt, my co-director for the Saranac Lake Downtown Criterium. These guys did a massive amount of legwork with the villages, towns, counties, local businesses, and other practicalities, and let me focus on the cycling federation and the state DOT, the latter of which turned out to be almost more than I could handle (whew!). Also my wife Jill, who helped in so many ways in the months leading up to the race and on race weekend despite an incredibly busy schedule of her own. Tim Akers did wonderful work on publicity and coordinating volunteers; Jim Tyler was huge in fundraising and many other aspects of the Saranac Lake race; Ed Smith did a great job pulling the vehicles and drivers together for the road race (thanks drivers!); Kenny Boettger and Placid Planet Bicycles helped in many ways, including procuring radios and providing sweet prizes for the junior racers, and the list goes on.
But since I have work to do I’d better cut this short and just repeat: THANK YOU! We’ll be getting full results soon, which we’ll put a link to on our website, and there should be a substantial article in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise and maybe even a clip on Mountain Lake PBS! All of you who know local business proprietors who sponsored us, please thank them when you see them. We’ll be sending them a thank-you and a t-shirt soon, but every voice helps to make it known we appreciate them. And any business you can throw their way would be great too!
THANKS AGAIN!
Jim Walker
On behalf of Team Placid Planet