I wasn’t necessarily thinking a sponsor had to be a media member. Maybe a Byrne Dairy , since chocolate milk is the new recovery drink or a Marks pizza that seems to be popping up everywhere.
We had Bud Poliquin do a story on the race one and we bought some time with a radio station one year and did 150 spots and a radio interview to get some interest. That’s the year we had 170 kids and a very happy sponsor.

OCC sounds like a great place to do a circuit race if we can pull it off. Hopefully we never go in the red again. And we should maybe look at 1 bike for the entire race. It makes it easier for everyone. Some riders would hate it but it does level the field in some ways.

I will keep pushing that we need to keep the race in front if everybody. We can’t be too early with anything. When we have something new we should get it out so everybody including our membership is looking forward to the event. It’s getting harder and harder to get participants so why not make this the one event they want to travel to.

> On Aug 5, 2017, at 11:29 AM, Todd Relyea brewer13210@PROTECTED [OCC_Race_Committee] <occ_race_comm@onondagacyclingclub.org> wrote:
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> Chuck,
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> Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
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> #1) That's a good though although off the top of my head I'm not sure
> who that would be.  Over the years we've contacted the Syracuse
> newspapers but they have had zero interest in anything to do with the
> race.  We can certainly contact the various media companies in the
> area.  I also know one of the professors up at Newhouse...I'll ask if
> it's possible the race can be used for any of their media projects
> (posters, video, electronics media).
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> #2) Absolutely.  For too long I've tried to be a 'nice guy' and provide
> lots of races/categories for everyone (especially the ladies), but we
> end up with too many small categories and dead time throughout the day
> after combining fields.  As you say, we can build-in dead time at the
> end of the day in case we have a large number of registrations and want
> to break-out a few categories in to their own races.
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> #3) I have no preference whether we do the crit or TT first, but I
> definitely want to include dinner on Saturday night.  That will give us
> a change to do awards, post standings, etc.  The trick is just finding a
> venue at/near a location that also has a good crit/TT course.  As you
> say, if we have a location we love, we can just have it catered.  A
> little later this month Mike and I are meeting with Onondaga Community
> College about the possibility of having the crit there.
>
> We can give heavy consideration to using the park and marcellus again.
> I also want to talk to the Cazenovia chamber of commerce...3-4 years ago
> they expressed interest in holding a biking 'event' in town and with the
> new Empire Brewing in Caz, that could be a good venue too.
>
> Thanks for the thoughts and I'll send a race update to everyone this
> weekend.
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> Todd Relyea
> 315-263-3712
> brewer13210@PROTECTED
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> On 08/04/2017 12:39 PM, Chuck Dominick chuckdominick@PROTECTED
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>> Just some thoughts I have about the 2018 race. I have been doing a lot of rides with only  my Strava as a companion so lots of thoughts jump into my otherwise idle mind.
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>> #1 We need a sponsor that we can get the race info through out to the public. They would be a partner and not necessarily have any financial involvement.
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>> #2 Condense the crit into a few categories. Maybe put all the low number entry categories together in one race early. Then do the same with the next group of racers so we might have 5 groups going off in the first race and 4 in the next. This could the easily have been done this year. What I am getting at, of course, is that we can always back up a start time and that way if we have an unusually large number of entries in one category we would give them a different start time or maybe combine them with the next race. This way we all get done early.
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>> #3 Have the TT after the crit and have a  catered party at the venue.
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>> The Park is a turn key and Marcellus has repaved the entire road surface which was the biggest objection in the past. If we go back to these two venues then we don’t have a drive and both have worked in the past.
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>> These are just some thoughts I had. Whether we do it this way or not or make it a one day race is irrelevant to me. Maybe there is a village that would welcome the crit and TT. Who knows. As long as we get enough racers to break even we can always maintain the event.
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>> Chuck D
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