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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-06-10 | Into Exeter and back with Liz. Coffee and a choccie brownie and Mrs Lutzys.
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| Car buying bike ride - part 2 | 2013-04-22 | Back into Exeter to buy a replacement car after our Citroen Xsara estate died after just 77k miles.
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| Exeter and back | 2013-08-17 | Into Exeter and back round Exminster gold course
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| Ride to Exeter Quay and back | 2013-10-07 | Light winds on the way to the Quay and a head wind on the way back. New walking boots at Framers Friend. Wearing out the soles of walking boots every years must mean we are walking the dog too much.
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| Bike ride to work | 2014-03-14 | Needed to go into work and wife needed the car for the mile trip into her work so hubby had a 20 mile round trip to work by bike. OK - so she did have to come home at lunchtime for Scooby hound but...
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| Exeter and back | 2014-07-07 | Wild swans and some of the best cheesy chips ever!
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| Into Exeter | 2020-07-06 | Toolstation shopping for the next DIY project.
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-06-08 | Into Exeter with Liz. A bit windy so a bit slow.
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| Another twenty miles | 2016-10-19 | Another ride into Exeter and back.
Hard work!
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| Another twenty miles | 2016-10-20 | Third day in a row of cycling into Exeter and back.
Every day is getting harder - surely that's not right!
A couple of "reading breaks" on the way back.
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| Hundred miles this week | 2016-10-22 | The fifth 20 miler of the week. I'd expected this to be a gentle cycle ride with Liz but she was all gung ho! Way faster than I was expecting and I wasn't allowed my usual stopping places to have a breather.
This was the fifth day out in a row doing 20 miles meaning that the target of doing 100 miles in a week was reached with 2 days to spare.Day off tomorrow!
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| Another twenty miles | 2016-10-26 | Out with Liz for another cycle ride into Exeter and back.
Trying to "power" up the bridge at Powderham, I broke 3 spokes on the rear wheel. So the last 2.5 miles are Liz alone as she went home to get the car to rescue me and the broken bike.
That means the "reserve" bike tomorrow - the almost unridden Ridgeback Genesis Day Two.
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| Exeter and back | 2016-11-19 | Another 20 mile ride into Exeter and back.
First ever average of 13 mph on a twenty mile ride.
Storm Angus had left the flood prevention overflows in full spate in Exeter.
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2020-09-06 | To buy stuff that wasn't there
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| Back from Exeter | 2019-11-04 | Slow ride back from Exeter
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-06-03 | Ride in to Exeter with Liz to buy a new buoyancy aid.
Coffee at Mrs Lutzys.
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| Exeter and back | 2016-11-28 | A windy ride into Exeter and back. Luckily the wind (F5 to F7 on Met Office forecast) was mostly on the side,
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| Exeter and back | 2016-12-03 | A windy ride into Exeter and back, Liz still in post lurgie mode.
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| Exeter and back | 2016-12-05 | To the Mill On The Exe and back
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| Exeter and back | 2016-12-17 | First ride in a fortnight - work and the weather put paid to the previous weekend.
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| Xmas eve ride | 2016-12-24 | Into Exeter and back. First solo ride for a couple of week and the slightly higher speeds made it hard work!
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| Fast Exeter cycle ride with Liz | 2020-03-13 | Into Exeter with Liz (who put a bit of effort in for once). Mrs Lutzy was pleased to see us (but no kisses)!
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| Into Exeter | 2019-11-04 | With Liz. Coffee at Mrs Lutzys
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-06-17 | Into Exeter and back with Liz. Not our fastest!
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| Exeter and back - quite fast | 2017-02-18 | A very fast (for me) ride out to Exeter (averaged 16.2mph - would have been faster but for the hordes of pedestrians on the last couple of miles) and a somewhat slower ride back into quite a strong head wind. Stopped briefly at SYC to watch the dinghy instructor pre-prep course.
Fastest overall average I've managed on the 20 miles "Exeter and back" ride. First time averaging over 14 mph!
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| Exeter and back | 2017-02-21 | Another "fast for me" ride into Exeter and back. Fast - as in more than 14mph average. There was a sod of a headwind on the way out so made up time on the way back (although I could swear that the wind changed direction just as a I started back from Exeter).
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| Exeter and back | 2017-02-27 | A gentle ride into Exeter and back. A mixture of sunshine and showers but at least the wind was from the side.
Most impressively, Liz managed to come off her bike but still remain standing at the end of the manoeuvre!
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| Exeter and back | 2017-03-04 | A gentle wide into Exeter and back with Liz.
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| Exeter and back | 2017-03-10 | Into Exeter and back. Average speed not too bad given that there was quite a strong headwind on the way back.
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2020-03-12 | Into Exeter with Liz after she finished work
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-10-27 | Into Exeter with Liz
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| Windy cycle ride | 2019-12-15 | Into Exeter with Liz. Windy. River flooded.
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| Exeter and back | 2017-04-24 | A fairly gentle ride into Exeter and back. Had the Marin loaded up with a pannier and computer bag as though I was going to cycle into work. After a bit of adjustment it all seemed to work ok.
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| Work cycle ride | 2017-05-12 | Into and Exeter and back to work.
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| Work cycle ride | 2017-05-23 | Into work and back. Not much wind which made it a bit easier.
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| Exeter and back | 2017-06-12 | Quite hard work as I hadn't been on the bike for the last three weeks and there was a bit of a head wind on the way out.
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| Work cycle ride | 2017-06-23 | In to Exeter and back. Stopped at SYC on the way back.
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| Liz post work cycle ride | 2020-03-11 | Into work and then on to Exeter for Liz.
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| Exeter bike ride | 2021-10-07 | First time into Exeter in ages
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| Work cycle ride | 2017-07-06 | Fast for me - especially as it was on the old bike and with two heavy panniers.
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| Work cycle ride | 2017-07-14 | Would have been a bit faster if a) an idiot car driver hadn't driven slowly down the cycle path to the Turf Locks and then cut me up at the Turf and b) my chain hadn't come off the front cog just past the Turf.
On the plus side, Little Mix weren't sound checking as I went past the concert ground at Powderham.
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| Exeter and back | 2017-07-16 | It was going to be a longer ride round to Lympstone but it started raining and the wind got up.
Still - first time ever with an average speed of over 15 mph! Would have been faster except for having to slow down so often for huge numbers of kids and walkers. They are also digging up the cycle path at Exe Bridges which meant walking round various diversions and not getting the full 20 miles in.
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| Work cycle ride | 2017-07-18 | Into work and back - managed to avoid the rain. Felt faster than 14.5 mph average!
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| Work cycle ride | 2017-08-01 | Into Exeter and back
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| Exeter and SYC | 2019-12-01 | Into Exeter and then back via SYC for the AGM, Windy.
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| Picking up the Tribby | 2019-04-12 | Liz cycle ride into Exeter to pick up the Tribby campervan after its annual service
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| Exeter and back | 2017-10-07 | Too windy for us to want to go sailing (F4 gusting F6) so Liz and I cycled into Exeter and back.
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| Cycling into Brian | 2017-10-21 | In fact, Storm Brian was mostly a westerly and Liz and I were cycling mostly north / south so apart from the occasional big gust, it didn't make too much of a difference.
The coffee and custard tart at Lutzys was very good!
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| Lutzys cafe | 2017-11-11 | A cycle ride into Exeter and back with Liz. Stopped at Lutzy's Cafe for the rather nice custard tarts and some coffee.
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| 2017 miles cycled in 2017 | 2017-12-02 | This track reaches my target of cycling 2017 miles in 2017!
Was meant to be a gentle ride to Lutzys for lunch but a torn wall on the side of Liz's tyre meant that we had to abandon and get a new tyre.
Then into Exeter Quay a little later reaching the 2017 mile mark somewhere near the Turf Locks.
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| Exeter and back | 2017-12-04 | A ride into Exeter and back with Liz
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2020-10-01 | Into Exeter to buy more DIY materials for our house - that a professional will have to remove / repair at some point in the future.
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| Exminster and Exeter | 2021-04-21 | Into Exminster to meet up with Liz after work and then onto the opticians in Exeter to get some glasses mended. First visit to the big city since the plague struck!
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| Exeter bike ride | 2019-03-31 | Into Exeter and back with Liz. Bit of a head wind on the way in. Angry caravanner on the way back.
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| Windy Exeter ride | 2018-01-01 | A very breezy ride into Exeter with Liz. Hard work on the way out - easier on the way back. Exe was flooding so couldn't get all the way to the Mill on the Exe. Stopped at Lutzy's for coffee.
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| Into Exeter | 2018-01-06 | Into the centre of Exeter to pick up Liz's phone after a repair because it got dunked in "a bowl of water". Excellent service from IT Mobile in Gandy Street.
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| Exeter and back | 2018-01-20 | Into Exeter and back with Liz. Picked up some free tide timetables from the very nice people at Bridger Marine on the Quay.
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| Exeter and back | 2018-01-29 | Into Exeter and back with Liz to do a bit of shopping.
Bit windy and had to walk past the people putting up a new fence along the railway along the estuary.
There was a new cruise boat - The Spirit Of Loch Ness - in the Turf Lock. Not seen her before.
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| Exeter and back | 2018-02-12 | A gentle cycle ride into Exeter with Liz.
First time on the bike in nearly two weeks due to a winter lurgie that refused to go. Still not 100% right yet!
Lutzys was still closed.
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| Post work ride to Exeter | 2020-02-05 | Into Exeter after Liz's work day
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| Liz's first time back on the bike in a month | 2019-10-05 | Into Exeter. Was going to have coffee and Mrs Lutzys but cafe was full. Was going to book a demo paddle on an inflatable kayak but shop had a busy open day. Cam home via SYC.
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| Bike shop ride | 2019-03-28 | Into Exeter to pick up some spare inner tubes and repair kits after yesterday's puncture shenanigans.
Garmin Connect made the moving average for this trip as 14.8 mph - prefer their calculations!
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| Exeter and back | 2018-04-23 | Into Exeter and back with Liz. Stopped for a coffee at Lutzy's.
Watched the dredger deepening the channel out from the Turf Locks.
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| Exeter and back | 2018-05-12 | Into Exeter and back with Liz.
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| Exeter | 2018-05-18 | Into Exeter and back with Liz.
Coffee at Lutzys and then a fairly strong breeze to contend with on the way back.
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| Exeter and back | 2018-06-10 | Into Exeter and back with Liz with a stop at Lutzys for coffee.
Liz's first time out on her bike for several weeks.
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| Into Exeter | 2018-07-01 | Into Exeter with Liz to buy some excellent value £19.99 binoculars from Lidls
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| Bino buying cycle ride | 2020-01-25 | Into Exeter with Liz to buy some retirement present binoculars.
Top "creamy veggie slices" at Warrens.
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-09-01 | Into Exeter with Liz. Strong headwind on the way in and Liz short on breakfast and energy. Coffee and a tart at Mrs Lutyzs helped.
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| Another puncture | 2019-03-27 | Met up with Liz after she'd finished work and cycled into Exeter for lunch at Mrs Lutzys.
Cycling back, I got a puncture. It was bad enough that the "snake eyes" double puncture highlighted that I'd been under inflating the tyres. What was much worse was that while I'd managed to bring the right sized spare tube for the new bike, I'd neglected to bring one with the right valve type to fit through the wheel. Trying to use a 20 year old puncture repair kit didn't work too well either.
So Liz cycled on home and came back to rescue me from the canal car park by the Swans Nest for the second time in about 4 months.
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| To the canoe shop | 2018-08-20 | Into Exeter to buy a replacement kick stand for the canoe trolley
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| Breakfast at Lutzys | 2018-09-29 | Into Exeter with Liz for breakfast at Lutzys on the Quay.
Quite slow as it was Liz's first time back on the bike for about 6 weeks.
Replacement saddle and grips on my bike were fine.
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| Breakfast at Lutzys | 2018-10-20 | Into Exeter with Liz for breakfast at Lutzys
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| Exeter and back | 2018-10-27 | Into Exeter with Liz for coffee at Lutzys.
Windy on the way out - about a F5 (enough get the dinghy cruise planned for the afternoon to be cancelled)
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| Exeter and back | 2018-11-03 | Into Exeter for breakfast at Lutzys. Strong headwind on the way home.
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| Starcross Steamer Bike Ride | 2020-01-19 | Into Exeter for a spot of shopping and then a while at Starcross Yacht Club watching the annual Starcross Steamer dinghy race. The winds were better for cycling that for sailing.
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-08-31 | Into Exeter looking at double glazing (shut - would be dull) and kayaks (much more interesting).
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| New bike wheels! | 2021-06-14 | Back from the bike shop in Exeter after getting a new pair of Hope 20five wheels fitted to the bike. The bloody wheels originally supplied with the Triban died when a spoke pulled through a rim and shattered the rim. Good riddance!
New wheels seem fine (hard to tell with a decent tail wind pushing you along).
But the gear adjustment is shagged - both front and back. I'll try to fix that before taking back to the bike shop.
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| Ride into Exeter | 2018-12-10 | A cycle ride with Liz into Exeter.
Mrs Lutzy's was closed so we had another cool coffee on the other side of the quay.
On posh bike and no wind so an easy ride.
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| Exeter and back | 2018-12-16 | Into Exeter and back with Liz. Mrs Lutzys was shut so we stopped at SYC for a coffee on the way back. Rainy!
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| Exeter for coffee | 2018-12-23 | Into Exeter with Liz for a coffee. As Mrs Lutzy's is now closed for a month, it was to Bar Venezia and the most ridicously chocolatty chocolate fudge cacke slice.
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| First bike ride of 2019 | 2019-01-06 | Into Exeter and back with Liz. First bike ride of 2019 and the first bike ride after an unpleasant Xmas lurgie.
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| Exeter bike ride | 2022-08-15 | Shopping trip.
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2020-01-18 | Into Exeter with Liz. Liz's first cycle ride since a Xmas lurgie.
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-08-12 | Into Exeter and Dawlish with Liz for some shopping. Headwind on the way out.
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-12-22 | Into Exeter with Liz. Lots of flood water.
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| Into Exeter and back | 2019-01-28 | Into Exeter with Liz. Wind assisted on the way back so a few short "sprints".
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| New push bike | 2019-02-02 | Bought a Triban RC520 road bike and this was the first time out on it.
Went with Liz to Dawlish Warren and then into a strong head wind into Exeter for coffee and a custard tart at Mrs Lutzys
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| Back from the bike shop | 2019-02-03 | A ride back from the Bike Shed after getting the an extension fitted to raise the handlebars on the Marin hybrid.
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| Exeter and back | 2019-02-04 | Into Exeter and back. Headwind on the way in.
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| Exeter bike ride | 2022-08-11 | M&S
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| Exeter bike ride | 2020-10-07 | To pick up some bitumous paint
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-12-07 | Into Exeter with Liz
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| Exeter bike ride | 2022-07-15 | A little bit of Exeter shopping
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| Lizzies 100 mile week - Part 2 | 2019-03-04 | Aidan goes abroad for work and Lizzie does a 100 miles on the bike in one week!
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| Lizzies 100 mile week - Part 3 | 2019-03-05 | Aidan goes abroad for work and Lizzie does a 100 miles on the bike in one week!
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| Lizzies 100 mile week - Part 4 | 2019-03-07 | Aidan goes abroad for work and Lizzie does a 100 miles on the bike in one week!
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