A beautiful day for a nice, leisurely little ride around Emporia with a few thousand of my closest friends! About 4100 of us gathered on Commercial Street for a bit of gravel grinding. Since I was in the short 25 mile race and it was a lovely day, I went at it fairly hard. My full 26.6 mile course time was 1:52:47, for a pace of 14.15 mph. That placed me overall 114 / 281 (40.6 percentile) or among men at 81 / 159 (50.9 percentile). I'll take that. I rode the MTB, a last-minute decision forced on me when the Tricross front mech developed serious issues after Cottonwood, where is was rather loose. Garmin credits me with 1.71 W/kg avg power and 6.19 W/kg max power, and a normalized power of 144 W. That's up a bit from Cottonwood's 137 W normalized power, admittedly over a longer course. For all the people the event was amazingly chill. Easy parking, lots of food and many well-known cycling vendors.