Adirondack North Country Race Weekend
We wanted to thank everyone for a great weekend of racing! They can be found at the address below. We are already making tweaks to the race and looking forward to next year. Results are posted below and also on BikeReg.com.
Jennufer McCulskey, our race photographer, was around for the Wilmington Whiteface Road Race and took some great pictures.
In the news...
The Wilmington Whiteface Road Race and the Saranac Lake Downtown Criterium appear in the Cyclotour Guide Books Major Bicycling Events Calendar & the New York Bicycling Coalition Calendar of Major Bicycling Events
Wilmington Whiteface Road Race- June 13th, 2009
The race starts (under neutral condition) at the Wilmington Town Park Youth Center, goes right for 100 yards on Springfield Road, left on NYS Route 86 for 1/2 mile, and right on Bonnie View Road, where racing begins at the top of the first short rise.
Bonnie View Road is mostly a very slight climb for its six-mile length. There is one main downhill section of a few hundred yards and then a moderately steep uphill pitch just after, maybe 200 yards long. Then flat for about a mile to Silver Lake Road. After the left turn onto Silver Lake Road there are two or three big long rollers I would call them. One is about 3/4 mile long on the uphill, another maybe 1/2 mile, neither one too steep. After the right turn onto Turnpike Road, the terrain is mostly slightly downhill and fast (watch sharp downhill left-hand curve here: will be marshalled and flagged!) for about 3 miles with the exception of a couple of short humps until Guide Board Road, where there is a long false flat followed by a couple long rollers, a fast descent of maybe half a mile, over a slight roller, and then flat back to Silver Lake Road. Very quickly one meets the main climb of the loop, which is one mile, through the feed zone and almost
back to the start of the loop at Bonnie View Road. The climb is steepest at the bottom and gradually lessens in pitch,
but it's hard to really tell it is backing off when the pace is being pushed.
One, two, three, or four times around that depending on category. Then left onto Bonnie View again, mostly slightly downhill in this direction, with the one downhill from the way out turned into a wicked kicker of a climb. Thankfully it is short. Then more fast, ever so slight downhill back to Wilmington, where you turn right onto the Whiteface Memorial Highway/Rt. 431 and fight to the finish 1.6 miles above. This is a steady 8 percent grade almost all the way, though I have been told that it steepens to around 11 percent right around the Santa's Workshop entrance, which is where our finish is.
YOU HAVE JUST CONQUERED THE WILMINGTON-WHITEFACE ROAD RACE!
Registration with
Maps
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Cat 3/4- 3 loops
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Jr Boy's & Girls (Age 10-14)
This is an out and back course.
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Saranac Lake Downtown Criterium- June 14th, 2009
Course: .55-mile circuit with three left-hand turns. Start on Main Street just north of Rt.3, north (gradual grade) to merge onto Broadway, down hill, 90-degree left on Dorsey, left on Rt. 3, left back onto Main Street to finish near Main and Broadway.
Registration with
Maps
Race Lodging
We would like to thank our sponsors!
Interested in becoming a sponsor? Contact race@teamplacidplanet.org
Race Sponsors
| Gold Level Sponsor |
Adirondack Medical Center
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| Silver Level Sponsor |
Haselton Lumber
New York Ski Educational Foundation
Adirondack Holiday Lodge
Adirondack Steak & Seafood Co.
Egglefield Bros./High Peaks Ford
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| Bronze Level Sponsor |
Ledge Rock at Whiteface
Harden Furniture
High Peaks Health Center
Champlain Bank
LaPlante Plumbing and Heating
Alpine Country Inn & Suites
Fogarty's Lake Flower Marina
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Team Sponsors
