Emonda. Beautiful day, almost exactly like last year. Sunny all day with some high clouds, Cool at the start around 55 degrees, warming up to mid 70's. mild SE winds up to about Neenah then they picked up to around 12 mph, pretty wicked heading East and South. First 45 miles up to High Cliff Park was very fast with minimal short climbs, the peloton averaged 21.9 mph to that point. Rode a different strategy this year: was in the front group for the whole first half and did quite a few hard pulls. By High Cliff, 10 of us had dropped the rest of the wave. I made it to the top of the High Cliff climb in 9th place but was several hundred yards behind the leaders. It took me 4 miles to bridge back to them. We rode together for the next 22 miles then it was just 4 of us left. I finally got dropped on one of the last climbs and rode the last 8 miles solo, but I could see the other riders ahead and they finished about 1 minute ahead of me. Huge improvement over last year - I finished 4th in the wave out of 70 starting, and we passed 50-60 riders from earlier (i.e. faster) waves. Dropped 7 minutes off my ride time from last year, finished with a 21.0 mph average (LY 20.5), Normalized Power was 243W (LY 202), TSS: 283 (LY 221) and IF: 82 (LY 72). I definitely had the legs to easily do a Sub-5 Century. With some targeted speed work, I could move up to Wave 5.