Episode 69
“My favorite quote from Lehigh Valley, someone was like, ‘You can’t come up with a course that I haven’t ridden already.’ And we come up with this and they come back with, ‘I didn’t know half these roads existed.'”
If you missed it last year, this year is your chance– the Gran Fondo Hincapie returns to the Lehigh Valley on June 3rd! This week Andrew sits down with Joe Coddington, the technical director of the Hincapie Group. The guys discuss what a fondo is, the flare that Hincapie brings, Joe’s background in cycling and his passions, and much more. Be sure to listen to get the scoop on all of the upcoming Hincapie Gran Fondos!
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Transcript
Maura:
Broadcasting to you from the Valley Preferred Cycling Center. This is The Talk of the T-Town podcast where we discuss all things track cycling.
Andrew Paradowski:
Welcome back to another episode of Talk of the T-Town here at the Valley Preferred Cycling Center in the beautiful Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania. I’m today’s host, Andrew Paradowski, and sitting with me today in our studio’s virtually via Zoom is Joe Coddington from the Hincapie Group. Joe is the technical director for Hincapie Gran Fondo series. Last year was the inaugural Lehigh Valley Hincapie Gran Fondo. I just love saying Fondo. And we’re here today to talk about all things Fondo. Welcome to the show, Joe, how you doing?
Joe Coddington:
I’m doing great. I’m a very excited to talk about big ride or as Gran Fondo means an Italian, so let’s get at it.
Andrew Paradowski:
All right. Well, then off the top, tell us what exactly is a big ride or as you say in Italian, Fondo?
Joe Coddington:
Well, the Gran Fondo Hincapie Lehigh Valley, or we have other cities as well. If you do every one, you get to ride Greenville as a Gold VIP for free. But it is a very unique experience. We like to create world-class unique courses. One of the big goals of Lehigh Valley is to create a classic feel. So, you feel like when you pull into that velodrome that you had a little mini version of Paris-Roubaix, or Strade Bianche, like that.
Andrew Paradowski:
Joe, before you get into your specific Fondo, for the listeners who don’t know what a Gran Fondo is, can you explain the basics of it?
Joe Coddington:
Oh, for sure. A Gran Fondo, I mean, literally just means big ride, or it’s sometimes translated to fun ride, and you get to come out and do a ride in the community with a bunch of your friends, 2,000 of your closest friends or so, you have SAG support or vehicles that follow with tubes and stuff like that. You have rest stops that have all kinds of unique foods and things to help you along the way. It’s just a unique experience to ride in something other than a true bike race. It has a little bit of that feel to it, but it is not a bike race at all. It’s just a fun way to come out and do a good ride. And it’s just a little bit fancier way of doing it than the old cookie rides of the ’80s and ’90s. It’s a nice, exciting twist on making it a little bit more fun.
Andrew Paradowski:
So, there’s no racing involved?
Joe Coddington:
Well, there are time segments. It’s a big difference with Fondos, where you get to ride a portion of the course that is safe for a time and those all get added up and that determines who’s going to get some prizes at the end as well, some raffle prizes and other exciting stuff.
Andrew Paradowski:
Okay, so a little bit for everybody. A casual rider who just wants to cover a distance and have some fun with their friends all the way up to somebody who might be interested in setting some PBs or winning some prizes.
Joe Coddington:
Absolutely.
Andrew Paradowski:
Okay. All right. Then how does the Hincapie flavor come to bear here?
Joe Coddington:
Well, at Hincapie, what we do is we really focus on the off-the-bike elements. Like our rest stops will have a live band, we’ll have some unique food, you’ll pull into a rest stop and there’s fresh chicken fingers, for example, or something like that. We had lobster gummies at all the rest stops at our one up in Bangor, Maine. Your entry fee does include all your food and beverage for you and your family, which is something else that’s unique. I know that all the times I spent racing, everybody would come to support me and there’d be nothing for them to do when I’d be out on some road race for four and a half, five hours. So, at Hincapie, we correct that by having unique food, bouncy castles, all kinds of things for the kids, and it’s all included. So, you get your finished beer and your finished burger and you bought all that with your entry fee. So, it’s a very unique approach in Hincapie.
Andrew Paradowski:
Well, that’s really cool. Is it just one kind of experience or do you have different experiences for sort of different levels of entry fee, I suppose?
Joe Coddington:
Yeah, we have three different courses. We have a Piccolo, a Medio, and a Gran, to focus on the excitement of keeping those Italian words going. We made some changes this year to the courses, but our Piccolo is going to be about right at 15 miles. We have our Medio is at 52, almost 53, and our Gran is going to be right at 79 this year. We try to focus on 15, 50, 80 as their experience. And one of the reasons for that is we know that the experienced guy can ride 100 miles and we’re really proud of that, but we also want that guy to get back and experience the festival in a way that he doesn’t get to at other races. So, we come up with a very challenging 80-mile course, so that they can get back and enjoy that festival fun.
Andrew Paradowski:
You mentioned that you’ve got several of these on the go across the United States. How many of them are you running right now?
Joe Coddington:
We have five coming next year. We have actually coming up on March 18th, our first ever gravel Fondo in Merced, California. For those of you that want to hop on your private jet or just go on a road trip in your sprinter van, come on out and you can do that ride. It’s going to be a gravel ride. Really cool. Chattanooga is in our sixth year, and that’s coming up in the first weekend of May. And then Lehigh Valley, which is June 4th this year. Bangor, Maine on June 23rd. And then the granddaddy of them all, what got it all started as that retirement party for George Hincapie, the Greenville Fondo in its 12th year. Also, Merced will be our 20th Fondo ride we’ve ever done, and it’s also Hincapie’s 20th anniversary as a company. So, it’s going to be a lot of unique twists on some things going on in Merced for those that want to make it out.
Andrew Paradowski:
So, quite a bit of history there. For our listeners, for anybody involved in the cycling world, would probably have to be living under a rock to not know who George Hincapie is. But do you want to give a little bit of history for our listeners there?
Joe Coddington:
Oh, for sure. George is one of the most successful American cyclists. He was very famous for being a lieutenant. The term super domestique was born around George. He is also one of our famous, our most successful Classics riders, really loved riding the Classics, but it’s very rare that you can have a rider fighting for the podium at Paris-Roubaix and then turn around and be leading out the tempo every climb in the Tour de France, just an all-around consummate professional. He also had the record with one other person for the most tours ever run, which was 17, that got broke this year by, I can’t remember what the gentleman’s name was that did it, but he cranked off the 18th one. So, very elite company there. I think the next one [inaudible 00:07:14] is like 12. So, be able to ride that many Tour de France just shows a perseverance and a strength. That’s kind of what we try to create with these Fondos is these unique experiences like Lehigh Valley bringing out that classic flare, which is something that George had a great passion for.
Andrew Paradowski:
Very cool. I’m a casual rider and I want to take part in my first ever Gran Fondo. Is there anything I need to know, to do, prepare, before plunking my cash down and heading out to the Lehigh Valley Gran Fondo next year?
Joe Coddington:
You can go to our website, hincapie.com, and there’s some training programs coming up and things like that, or you can go to the velodrome as a great place to start, especially, you guys have such an amazing asset and so many talented riders there to get help with training and practice. You should probably be riding a bike two, three times a week just, as a casual rider, to be ready for what this course brings. We’re here to give you advice on equipment choices and all of that stuff for you to make sure your experience is enjoyable. But I would start with a little bit of training, a little bit of practice, and make sure your bike’s in great working order when you show up on June 4th.
Andrew Paradowski:
Great advice. Also thanks for the plug there. We really appreciate it. Anyone who’s looking to check out what’s out being offered at the velodrome, come see us at thevelodrome.com website there. I’m sure you’ve all discovered it coming to see this podcast anyways, but it never hurts to put that out there. You mentioned at the start of the podcast, too, that one of the unique things about the Lehigh Valley version of the George Hincapie Gran Fondo is that it ends on the velodrome, much like the Paris-Roubaix Classic does. That’s unique amongst all your velodromes, excuse me, all of your Fondos and probably most Fondos out there, is that correct?
Joe Coddington:
Oh yeah. I think we’re the only one that does. And that was part of what attracted us here to this facility is it’s just such an amazing experience to having ridden Lehigh Valley and T-Town and all the other names that it’s gone on throughout the years. It’s been a staple in cycling and American history. And to be able to finish a velodrome event or finish a Fondo on the velodrome is really great. I do need to make one correction. I said June 4th, I meant June 3rd. It’s very important. Don’t show up on June 4th unless you want to help me pack up and clean up the velodrome. It’s June 3rd for this year’s event. We were June 4th last year. That’s why it’s stuck in my head. It was such an incredible experience. I don’t want to forget it. So, it’s really important to know that you can register on Friday, June 2nd, onsite or pick up your packet, and you also get a ticket to come watch the racing, because we want to promote the sport of cycling. Then the event is on June 3rd, Saturday.
Andrew Paradowski:
Right. And it’s not just a single-day event, as you mentioned there, it’s a multi-day event, where there’s an opportunity to come watch some racing on a Friday night here at the velodrome, as well as I believe when you sign up for different packages like the VIP package, there’s other events happening earlier in the week to make it sort of a real destination.
Joe Coddington:
There’s all kinds of things going on, and as you go to the website, hincapie.com, you can look and see what you want to select and be a part of. But absolutely, it would be a shame to not have people come to the velodrome and not watch the racing on Friday night. I think there might be a surprise this year, because I think it’s going to be a different style of racing than what a typical Friday night is. As a little birdie told me that it might be some big names coming, because of the nature of the event, but I’ll don’t want to spoil the surprise, I’ll let you do that, Andrew.
Andrew Paradowski:
For sure. For sure. We’ll update our listeners with that in the coming weeks for sure. So, turning the tide a little bit, as a race organizer myself, I know there’s a lot that goes into planning and logistics to put on these sorts of things, and course design is quite often on the forefront of your mind. What goes into putting together a Fondo like this? Especially, what do you look for when you’re designing courses for those to come out and ride?
Joe Coddington:
One thing we do, and that’s a little different, is we look for world-class unique. Using Lehigh Valley as an example, it’s the finish on the velodrome. That was what we wanted. Then we built the course from there, going backwards. Then we wanted to try and incorporate some of the uniqueness of the area with all the covered bridges. Then we started riding around and noticing all these little great [French 00:11:46] or pavé sections, which are little dirt sections, graveled sections, to give that feel of what a Paris-Roubaix cobbled section would be. Or in Strade Bianche when they say a [French 00:11:59], which literally means like a goat path. So, we created these segments that are dirt and to give that experience of what a Paris-Roubaix would feel like riding the cobbles.
In other areas, we just try to find a unique spot to the community and then figure out how to make a route work to where we can get to those locations and make something really awesome for them to do that they don’t get to do any other day. Like in Merced, we found three roads that no one’s allowed to ride, but we got permission for our riders to ride on them, this day, on the event day. So, little things like that, that we try to make it very unique and very exciting.
Maybe in Greenville we find some of George’s favorite training roads, so that you can get a taste of what it was like when he was training for the tour. Cycling is the most unique sport in the world as it is the only sport that you can directly participate and relate to what the athlete is going through, because riding up a hill is the same whether you’re doing it at a tour level or you’re doing it as a casual rider, you’ve got to get up that hill. Yes, the speeds might be different, but no other sport can you get that direct experience that you’re on the actual course with the actual equipment that they’re using. You can’t do that with football, you can’t do that with soccer, basketball, baseball. Not everybody can see what it’s like to have 100-mile an hour pitch thrown at them. But everybody can go ride these 17 bergs that we found in Lehigh Valley and know what it feels like. The same for George, Bobby, or any other pro riders that show up to participate.
Andrew Paradowski:
Very cool. All right, let’s turn around and talk a little bit about the man, Joe, himself. And we’ll start off with a couple of rapid fire questions. A small tradition here at Talk of the T-Town. Quick answers. What’s your favorite track cycling event?
Joe Coddington:
Oh, it’s got to be the miss and out.
Andrew Paradowski:
Very nice.
Joe Coddington:
Miss and out and points racing, that’s my two. That’s what I loved doing. The miss and out’s definitely the favorite.
Andrew Paradowski:
All right. What would be your favorite professional race to watch?
Joe Coddington:
Oh, it’s got to be Paris-Roubaix.
Andrew Paradowski:
A classic and it matches what we’re doing here, too, with the velodrome finish, for sure.
Joe Coddington:
Absolutely.
Andrew Paradowski:
What is your favorite bike, bike brand?
Joe Coddington:
Ooh, that’s a tough one. Ventum’s making some really nice stuff now, they’re new. They’re really impressing me. I’ve ridden almost everything, but I got to say, they’re making some cool stuff. It might be Ventum right now.
Andrew Paradowski:
All right. Most people who work in cycling tend to have some sort of background with it, even if it’s just as simple as they liked just riding their bike when they were growing up kind of thing. Tell us about your history with cycling. Did you have anything big? Were you a racer? Did you just like riding your bike? Tell us a bit more about that.
Joe Coddington:
Well, I’ll tell you, my first pair of cycling shoes were wood soled and you nailed the cleats to them. That’s how old I am. I actually started velodrome racing in Germany when I was six or seven. They had a little program out there that I got to do. Then I came back. To be honest, it was the only sport that made any sense to me, because it didn’t have that many rules. I didn’t like the organized sports, because it had too many rules. Had I realized how many rules cycling actually had, I probably wouldn’t have done it either, but instantly fell in love with the sport. I raced from about six, seven years old to 38, lots small-time regional pro stuff, elite amateur, had a lot of fun, raced a little bit everywhere. It was very unique.
Then I left racing and worked for the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling team for a while, and then I left that and I had my own youth cycling nonprofit that I started, that I ran. Then I worked with a veteran service organization called Weareprojecthero.org, and we use cycling as a therapy for PTSD and other injuries. We will take 200 vets from San Francisco to LA over eight days and ride with them and do a lot of really unique things. So, I’ve had a very diverse cycling background. I can say that I have raced at T-Town several times and enjoyed myself. I think I’ve ridden almost every velodrome in the United States. I did not get to ride The Superdrome down in Frisco, but I’ve ridden almost all the other ones. And T-Town is definitely my favorite place to race at. Atlanta is my favorite track to ride, because it’s just really crazy, that is built on the mile and not metric, and the turns are different. It’s a very unique experience, but still, if you’re going to hand me a track back, I’m running to T-Town right away.
Andrew Paradowski:
Well, that’s awesome. A couple of things came out of that, that I want to explore a bit further. What brought you to Germany when you were that young?
Joe Coddington:
I was an Army brat, so my dad served in the Army and we were stationed near Munich. That’s how that started. Then because of that, I was a United States Marine. I am a Marine Corps national cycling champion, but it’s not the same kind of accomplishment as other things, but it was definitely fun to do.
Andrew Paradowski:
All right. Well, thank you for your service, for sure. That leads me to, I guess, my next question. You mentioned that you do some rides that work with veterans, especially this big one down in California. Do you want to talk a bit about that?
Joe Coddington:
Oh yeah, weareprojecthero.org is a great organization. They do rides all over the country. They have hubs that serve as local riding communities. I think there’s one in Pennsylvania, but they do a big ride in Texas in April, and then they do honor rides, the little one-day rides similar to what our Fondos are, not the same kind of level, and they do them all over the country. So, it’s a really great spot to go. You can go to weareprojecthero.org to check it out. But it really, again, because cycling’s this unique sport, it’s something that you can do together at all levels and what makes it really unique for working with veterans, because it’s also something that they can ride this trip, but then on Monday they go home and they still have a bike and they can ride and it really helps them process the injuries that aren’t so obvious to see, having served and gone through unique experiences. The decompression time when you fly from a combat zone back home isn’t the same. It’s really hard to process that for a lot of our veterans. So, having organizations like weareprojecthero.org really help.
Andrew Paradowski:
Yeah, no, that’s great to be involved in that. Couple of years ago, I was the lead on the road cycling events for the Invictus Games in Toronto in 2017, and we had quite a few Americans up and you could see how it really helped and there was an impact on just being there and being able to compete in that race. That certainly helped with a lot of the morale and the wellbeing for those veterans. So, it was certainly an experience to watch.
Joe Coddington:
Well, thank you for that service, Andrew. That’s the kind of stuff that’s really important for veterans is that when you get wounded, you lose that sense of mission and purpose. So, having something like the Invictus Games or these challenges that weareprojecthero.org really restores that mental aspect of being what it is to be in the military. So, I greatly appreciate your work with that organization. It’s very important.
Andrew Paradowski:
Sure, thank you. The last thing I wanted to ask about in your short little history there was about your time on the UnitedHealthcare Pro Team there. They were quite the Conti team for quite a while, and I remember seeing their results and their exploits. Do you have any interesting stories that you might want to share with our listeners about your time on that team?
Joe Coddington:
Oh yeah. I wasn’t a rider, but I did all the events and VIP stuff and helped out with the crit squad some. It was a very unique environment. It was probably one of the greatest family experiences of a team. Everybody really, really got along. It was just, what an awesome time to have been in the sport and really to be involved with an organization like that with Rory Sutherland, Hilton Clarke, Johnny Clarke. Just really great riders that knew how to, I mean, Karl Menzies, Adrian Hegyvary, I mean, there’s so many great guys. The Keoughs from up there. Jorge Romero was a mechanic actually, he does a lot at the velodrome. So, it’s really an awesome time to be involved. I will say that every time the the crit squad won, they’d all go get Pad Thai. So, we had to adjust that, because they were winning so much. But it was really a great organization to be involved with.
Andrew Paradowski:
Very cool. All right, let’s do a few more rapid fire questions. What is your favorite movie?
Joe Coddington:
Favorite movie. Probably Top Gun.
Andrew Paradowski:
All right.
Joe Coddington:
Breaking Away is a close second.
Andrew Paradowski:
Top Gun seems to be a favorite here. I think it was Kaio Lart who said Top Gun was his favorite movie as well. So there we go. We’ll have to start keeping a track of this and then do a post.
Maura:
It was the new Top Gun though, the one that came out this summer.
Andrew Paradowski:
Right. And I put-
Maura:
So, have you seen it? Do you like the original one better?
Joe Coddington:
Oh yeah, I’ve seen it. It’s hilarious, but it’s actually some great cinematics, but there’s some things they do in that movie the F-18s can’t do, but don’t let the facts get in the way of the story. But no, I mean, I was in the Marine Corps when the original came out, so we used to watch it every day. That’s why it sticks all time. But then American Flyers is another one for a cycling-related movie. You can’t kick that one to the curb either.
Andrew Paradowski:
I thought you were going to keep going on the cycling movie line there. What’s the other one that people keep talking about? The really horrible one that came out recently, Premium Rush?
Joe Coddington:
Oh, I haven’t seen that one.
Andrew Paradowski:
Yeah. Well, never have I. So, really shouldn’t be commenting on how good or bad it is, but I hear it didn’t get great reviews. All right, let’s move on. How about music? What’s your favorite music, let’s say, training or just relaxing, too?
Joe Coddington:
I like punk music a lot. I mean, Kiss is probably one of my favorite bands. But I listen to the blues, believe it or not.
Andrew Paradowski:
Love the blues.
Joe Coddington:
They can really help you, especially when you’re doing that long training ride, because you just get into the jams.
Andrew Paradowski:
Very cool. What is your favorite pos-ride snack?
Joe Coddington:
Favorite post ride snack. I got to go with a bologna and cheese and sandwich.
Andrew Paradowski:
With cheese?
Joe Coddington:
Yes. I mean, I’m a cheese snob. I love all kinds of cheeses. I will tell you the weirdest thing, we used to play a game when we’d have somebody new on the ride, we’d go to a gas station in the south and try to buy the weirdest thing to freak people out to eat in the middle of a ride just to gross people out. And I used to always buy Vienna sausages. It was pretty good. But then we had a rider who will remain unnamed, came out with pork brains and milk gravy one time, and he is forever the winner of grossing people out for mid-ride food. I can’t believe he actually ate it. I thought it was going to be 100% a joke, but it was a fun game to play in your 20s. I can’t do that in my 50s, because if I eat that kind of stuff now, I’ll get bigger.
Andrew Paradowski:
Yeah, after a long ride, you can pretty much eat anything as long as it’s moderately edible, because you’re just starving.
Joe Coddington:
Yeah, exactly. I don’t think that’s edible.
Andrew Paradowski:
I’m not a huge fan of fish, but I remember coming back from this century ride and we stopped at a place and literally the only thing on the menu was fish tacos. And I was like, “All right, fish tacos it is.” So yeah, got to replace the energy. Last one for you, what is, if you have one, your favorite inspirational quote?
Joe Coddington:
“Do or do not, there is not try,” by Master Yoda.
Andrew Paradowski:
Excellent. I love it.
Joe Coddington:
It’s okay to fail. It’s okay to fail, but if you don’t try… if you go with, “I’ll try,” you’re inviting failure right from the beginning, so just do it.
Andrew Paradowski:
Right. Yeah. The Canadian version of that is, “You miss 100% of the shots that you don’t take on that.”
Joe Coddington:
Yeah, that’s another great one.
Andrew Paradowski:
Yeah.
Joe Coddington:
It’s another great one.
Andrew Paradowski:
Before we head out, just a couple more questions here for you, just about the future of the Fondo scene, and in particular the Hincapie Gran Fondo. Is there anything that our listeners can look forward to? I know you’ve mentioned a lot already about some stuff coming up this year, but do you have any big plans for Lehigh Valley or the Fondo series in general?
Joe Coddington:
Well, we’ve made some changes to the Lehigh course to impact the traffic a little bit less, so it’s going to be a little bit more exciting. We found another awesome little section of pavé that’s right near the velodrome, so you get to experience that for sure. Also, this year, like I said, you get the Gold VIP upgrade if you ride all four. So, starting March 18th in Merced, California is your first chance to do that. And then we go to Chattanooga, Tennessee for May 6th, then the Lehigh Valley on June 3rd. It’s very important that June 3rd is the date. Then we finish up the season with Greenville. Oh, I’m sorry, I left out Bangor, my second favorite Fondo is June 24th. Then we finish up the season with Greenville on its anchor weekend, which is October 21st. That’s a great experience, just an amazing spot there at Hotel Domestique and you can see all of it, and you can find out all the information you need on hincapie.com.
Andrew Paradowski:
Very nice. Maura, you went to the one down in Greenville, last year, right? This is ’22, so ’21.
Maura:
Yeah.
Andrew Paradowski:
I keep saying last year for this year, because we’re so far into it.
Maura:
Right. I don’t know what year it is, COVID really messed me up. But yes, I was down in Greenville in ’21 and it was amazing. It was the longest ride I ever did, the most climbing I ever did. It was very grateful for the sticky buns at the rest stop at the top of that first climb. But yeah, it was a great time. I’d love to get down there again.
Andrew Paradowski:
And you’d call yourself-
Joe Coddington:
Oh, come on down.
Andrew Paradowski:
You’d call yourself sort of a entry level cyclist. So, did you find it to be too difficult or was it just right?
Maura:
I thought it was just right. Certainly had to do some prep rides with the climbing that was on the course. Certainly that’s not something I’m used to, so I had to get some mileage in my legs for that. But other than that, it was a great experience.
Andrew Paradowski:
Very cool.
Joe Coddington:
It is, definitely, Greenville’s an awesome one. I mean, it’s just the venue itself and the ability… Once you’re riding and once you’re past the first, I mean, you’re always in the middle of nowhere instantly. It’s really cool.
Maura:
Right. It’s just like the Lehigh Valley.
Joe Coddington:
Exactly. It is. It’s just a little bit less climbing in Lehigh Valley, so we had to make up with it with these little pavé sections, which I think is awesome. I mean, my favorite quote from Lehigh Valley, someone was like, “You can’t come up with a course that I haven’t ridden already.” And we come up with this and they come back with, “I didn’t know half these roads existed.” So, it’s just a very unique experience at Lehigh.
Andrew Paradowski:
Well, that’s a very good tagline, for sure. All right, Joe, thank you very much for coming on the show today. I know you said it a few times already, but one more time, for the folks at home, where do they go to find out more about the upcoming Lehigh Valley Hincapie Gran Fondo?
Joe Coddington:
It is hincapie.com, and then you can click on the Gran Fondo Hincapie link. Believe it or not, Lehigh Valley is front and center once that page comes up. So, you can go right there, click the register, find out about all the events going on that week, and June 3rd, 2023. We look forward to seeing you there.
Andrew Paradowski:
Very good. All right. Thank you, Joe.
Joe Coddington:
Thank you.
Andrew Paradowski:
Okay, that wraps up another episode of Talk of the T-Town. Check us out in the coming week for more episodes and, of course, be sure to subscribe to the podcast on your favorite streaming service. From all of us here at the Valley Preferred Cycling Center, remember to keep the rubber side down and ride safe out there. See you next time.
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