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alarm at 4, stumble downstairs, start the espresso machine, grab clean shorts from the dryer... bike on the car and on the road at quarter to 5 with a quadruple americano in hand... back way into fountainhead, coffee finished, get ready in the quiet, light on and then onto the trail... ride the loop backwards, stop to put up tape, repeat... cut my light near the end and finish up with just the pre-dawn half light...

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yesterday morning on my way to avalon, i got a call from stu moulton - stuck in miami, thanks to the hurricane, and not sure when he'd be back... he was supposed to help pre-ride the venturequest course and finish putting up the tape that couldn't be put up while the trail was open on saturday... i said i could fill in, which is why i was riding fountainhead at 6 in the morning

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i rode most of the loop, shortcuting near the end on the almost never used "shock-a-billy shortcut"... at the end of the loop i met stu, he managed to get into baltimore at 1am... stop at starbucks for another 4-shot americano and then meet up in the main parking lot... spent the rest of the morning running one of the passport control stations with juan...