Getting Started

We had our first meeting in November to start the process for the 9th annual American Discovery Trail Races (Marathon, Half Marathon, and Marathon Relay). I took over as race director a few weeks previous. Our top priority were this year's sponsors. Since times are tough right now this could be a difficult job. This is a fantastic marathon, with a fantastic course and views. My goal will be to change a few visual aspects of the marathon to make it more attractive in the media, such as the website.

As of today, we have met with several sponsors and have hopes for a few. Our website is well under construction with a completion date of the first of January. Since I am a volunteer, I am still working full-time as a school teacher and will go on Winter break today. This will give me hours to devote to this race to get another jump on things, such as the race brochure. My committee is growing in numbers and excitement. We will be having our 2nd meeting next month, as we decided to take off the month of December.

One more thing, we have started to put together our prerace dinner and have a sponsor hotel change that will be going before the board for approval in a couple of weeks.

I thought this might be a good area for other directors to post their carziness...if interested. Sara