It started with an email on March 9 from Chris Darling, Biology teacher and mountain bike team coach at Kennett High, to Mount Washington Valley Bicycling Club Board members John Higgins, Sarah Duffy and Bill Ballou.
Darling was emailing them about Crank the Kanc preparations. MWVBC and Kennett Mountain Bike Team partner to put on the bicycle race up the Kancamagus Highway every May. After announcing a Zoom meeting to discuss registrations, Chris added this to his email:
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