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Incredibly profound yet fantastically flawed
PS - I'm old enough to have raced at Allaire.
Or an entire series at Ringwood
I remember both of these. I also recall that Allaire was the original spot for the MASS Finals - that LeMans start where you had to run across the sandpit, grab your bike and then ride back through it was horrible.
I'm really dating myself with this, but I also recall around 2000 there was an out-and-back race at Round Valley, a rocky XC course at the top of Mountain Creek, and an insanely technical course in Waywayanda that had like a 50% attrition rate. (However, I also recall a few years later my first 12 hour race was in Wayway on much of the same stuff - I think the entire field got lapped three times by Rob Lichtenwalner that day.)