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On the night Liu Jinsong approached Yueyang in Hunan province, he admits he was a bit scared.

The streetlights were dim and the road hilly and pebbly, with barely visible sections under repair looming here and there as he rode toward his first destination on a marathon mountain bike trip, his figure dwarfed by the trucks and tractors that roared past.