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lbortolus: Team Cassowary pre-race mug shots
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lbortolus: Support car and Team Cassowary ready for action
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lbortolus: Making banana oatmeal energy balls the night before the race
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lbortolus: Race morning check-in at the Atlantis, Reno
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lbortolus: Caleb, Ben, and Nod feeling ready to get this race started
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lbortolus: Ben and Nodair, what a pair
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lbortolus: Alissa and Nodair
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lbortolus: Cassowary 2X Relay Team ready to ride
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lbortolus: Team Cassowary ready to roll: Linda, Ben, Nodair, Caleb
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lbortolus: Getting serious
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lbortolus: Nodair psyched to start
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lbortolus: Stage 1: Virginia City
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lbortolus: Inside the jam-packed Subaru support wagon
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lbortolus: Ben ready for Stage 2
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lbortolus: Stage 2 transfer: Nod gives us the lead, Ben keeps it up
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lbortolus: Ben on the relatively flat Stage 2
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lbortolus: Thumbs up, tongue out
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lbortolus: Stage 3 transfer: Things are about to really heat up
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lbortolus: Ben catches his breath after Stage 2
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lbortolus: Ben feeling great after Stage 2
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lbortolus: Sand dunes along HWY 50
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lbortolus: Nodair on one of Stage 3's hot climbs
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lbortolus: Stage 3: Nodair and the Nevada desert
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lbortolus: Stage 3: Ben awakes (barely) from his rest state to cheer Nod on
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lbortolus: Ultra cycling relay race fashion: skirt for discrete bike short changes, eye mask coordinated with sleeves
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lbortolus: Team totem: The imtimidating Cassowary
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lbortolus: Stage 3: Stop and smell the flowers
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lbortolus: Stage 3: Nature calls
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lbortolus: Stage 3: Nodair heads in and out of frame
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lbortolus: Stage 3: Ben fully awake and excited to watch Nod pass by