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Tyler riding along a lakeside guardrail on the 2026 ride.
Edition V · Sat Sep 4, 2027

The Melvil
Dewey
Challenge.

Albany to Lake Placid
156 mi · 8,500 ft · One day · No drop
Course record
8:58:57
Cullen / Gantz · 2026
Fastest · 8:58:57
Most climbing · 8,622 ft
Longest · 161.08 mi
Finish rate · 100%
Course

Northwest out of Albany at sunrise. Schenectady, then backcountry roads through Ballston, west of Saratoga. Catch the Hudson at Corinth and follow it north to Warrensburg.

The last forty are where it tilts up. Route 9 along Schroon Lake. Over Hurricane Mountain through Elizabethtown. Reverse the Ironman descent through Keene to the village. Some of the hardest and most beautiful riding you'll do this time of year.

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Adirondacks
Albany start at dawn, 2026.
Mid-ride breakfast.
Two bikes on a guardrail in the woods.
Pat and Tyler at the Welcome to Lake Placid sign, 2026.
Train through morning fog.
Premise

It is one of the longest single-day rides in the Northeast and it ends in a place named for a frozen lake.

Course profile

Flat, then
it tilts.

AlbanyWarrensburgHurricaneNY 73Placid

Elevation profile: mostly flat for the first 120 miles, then two climbs, Hurricane Mountain and NY 73 into Lake Placid, in the final 30.

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