3:53 finish. Nice race in and around Stavanger, a small port city on the southwest coast of Norway about four and a half hours south of Bergen. No major crowds or anything, but friendly volunteers and small groups of enthusiastic spectators. Starts and finishes downtown with some urban and residential sections, but most of the course is on bike paths through wooded areas alongside lakes and a nearby fjord. Lots of short steep hills that seemed to never stop, but weather was ideal and my time was decent.
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