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2. On a tangentially related note, I ran the now defunct Cape Cod relay race for many years.

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Sat Jun 1, 2019, 02:34 AM

Jun 2019

It was an 80 mile relay race that started at Plymouth Rock and finished up in Provincetown. The first leg started at Plymouth Rock and the 2nd started just before the Plymouth nuclear power plant.
Just after the plant was probably the steepest and longest hill on the cape. Since I was a good hill runner I got "nominated" to run that leg a few times over the years. I think it was a 9.5 mile leg. I always eyed the plant with suspicion as I ran past it. The Cape has so much vacation traffic in the summer that trying to evacuate the area in the event of a emergency would have been a nightmare.

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Pilgrim shutdown ends nuclear power era in Massachusetts [View all] TexasTowelie Jun 2019 OP

Read the linked article. For me, informative and interesting. 👍 eom sprinkleeninow Jun 2019 #1

On a tangentially related note, I ran the now defunct Cape Cod relay race for many years. CentralMass Jun 2019 #2