Activ8Kids! Promotional Bike Ride - West Haverstraw
Once again, if the school is not up a hill, it is not the right school. Once the riders located the correct school, they were greeted with an Olympic style welcome as they rode onto the campus of West Haverstraw Elementary School. Much of the student body was dressed in red and white, their school colors matching our Activ8Kids jerseys. The school had such great spirit that they had their own "Activator." The Activ8Kids assembly was delivered in Spanish and English with the assistance of Maria Baraba and rider, Kathleen Gottschalk, South Colonie's Veeder School Principal. Today's "Activator" story was presented to an assembly of seven hundred students who got up and moved with us doing the Hokey Pokey. A West Haverstraw Elementary School fourth grader was selected by the school to receive a free bike. Continuing the tradition of the music teachers putting the Activ8Kids Ambassadors to shame, the kids sang the Activ8 cheer to a rap beat.
Since the perfect fall weather continued to grace us, we managed to complain about the incline of the endless hills. When plans to ride through West Point had to be changed, twenty of the elite riders rose to the challenge of biking up Mountain Road as an alternate route. The drop dead gorgeous view was the payoff for the long climbs and happily all riders successfully completed the day to enjoy spectacular river views from the Newburgh-Beacon bridge and even a train crossing below from the Storm King lookout.
