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Having moved from CA..I was worried about Gators and snakes in Flordia..I 
have seen my fair share of the snakes ( which don't bother me as long as I 
can trot by fast ), and thank heaven I have not seen one gator!!!!!!!!
But I had heard about the spiders. The women I sometimes ride with would 
say: "just wait till the spiders come out" and they would shreek and laugh. 
Then add that the spiders had toenails...I thought I was prepared...
Well they are VERY big and make very sticky webs and the forest here is FULL 
of them..
I run the woods daily and on the single track trails I run with a stick held 
out in front of me -it makes running real fun to hold a stick up the whole 
time while looking for spider webs, plus deal with the heat and humidity( 
often I am running in  105 degree heat index ). Believe me, The webs of 
these spiders are horrible to have clinging to you, let alone the spider 
riding along on your shoulder. And the spiders are not even close to being 
pretty.. but they are pretty big :-0.

Now when I ride later in the day all those spiider webs have been knocked 
down on the single tracks by my stick!!! Of course I ride much further then 
I run, so later in the ride I again take up a stick and trot on....
Oh the joys of training in the Flordia..
Mary Anne

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