WindMark Beach Duathlon draws post-Thanksgiving crowd
Organizers of the WindMark Beach Fun Duathlon didn’t expect the turnout for their race on Saturday to be quite so high.
But as 60 or-so racers lined up on the beach to tackle the two mile running and four mile biking courses, they found that they had nearly doubled their fundraising goals for the event.
“I’m not 100 percent sure, but I think we got close to $3,500,” said one of the event’s organizers David Jacoby, a former EMS worker. “I know we had 63 entrants. We were thinking it would be more around 20, but it seems we nailed it.”
The money was spent to purchase an AED device for the community, which Jacoby said could prove to save valuable time in an emergency situation.
“We’re trying to do some more stuff to get AEDs throughout the county,” he said. “EMS is great, but they are limited with resources and stuff.”
“I think it’s a good cause, and hopefully we’ll never have to use it. That’s the biggest goal.”
Meet the Editor
David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.