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Thursday Sep 7, 2017 #
Gravel Bike (Gravel, pavement) 1:45:00 [3] 23.9 mi (13.7 mph)
As a last minute decision, we went to Emporia rather than Marysville after taking the train back to the car. Thursday night is "Casual Ride" night at Emporia...12-14 mph. I am happy with 12 mph rides.....14 mph is just crazy (stupid) fast for me....esp a couple days before the Pony Express Gravel Dash. My experience with "casual group rides" tends to be getting dropped, but we figured, what the heck! So it was off to Gravel City Adventures where about 20 gravel grinding folks were ready for about 25 miles of Emporia's finest gravel.
I won't name drop, but, yeah, Mr Dirty Kanza was there on his SS....chatting with everyone. Very cool.
The ride wasn't too hilly.....about 3 good ones made me remember why I need to train in a hillier area. The gravel ranged from smooth to giant ball bearings. The sun set about halfway through the ride, so it was pretty cool to see all the headlights and tail lights blinking away through the dust we were kicking up.
This was an awesome ride......and we didn't get dropped! I seemed to get in good pacelines and just went with the crowd.
I won't name drop, but, yeah, Mr Dirty Kanza was there on his SS....chatting with everyone. Very cool.
The ride wasn't too hilly.....about 3 good ones made me remember why I need to train in a hillier area. The gravel ranged from smooth to giant ball bearings. The sun set about halfway through the ride, so it was pretty cool to see all the headlights and tail lights blinking away through the dust we were kicking up.
This was an awesome ride......and we didn't get dropped! I seemed to get in good pacelines and just went with the crowd.