Two hundred and seven miles of Flint Hills gravel from downtown Emporia, on the 2026 route, with support only at the checkpoints. Below is the ride the way the model rides it: your finish at three paces, where a fast rider gains on you, the climbs that cost the most, and a fuel plan for a day this long.
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Life Time's 2026 route announcement lists 207 miles and 9,000 ft in the Flint Hills of Kansas, from Emporia. The figures above are the model's own reading of Life Time's 2026 RideWithGPS route for the 200 (the 2027 route is not out yet). Aid at the two checkpoints on the 2026 route, the only places riders may take support.
The rider the app opens with, 185 lb, 280 W FTP, 20 kJ reserve, at the app's three pace settings, beside a fast rider. Your own numbers move all of it.
Riding it steady costs 1 hour 8 minutes against moderate; riding it aggressive saves 36 minutes and leaves your anaerobic reserve about where moderate does.
150 lb, 350 W FTP, 28 kJ reserve, aggressive
10:31240 W average, 19.6 mph
185 lb, 280 W FTP, 20 kJ reserve, moderate
13:00171 W average, 15.9 mph
The deficit grows fastest from mile 45 to mile 80, 28 minutes of it in 34 miles. None of the numbered climbs sits in it: it is steady road rather than one big climb, and the fast rider's extra 69 watts turn into speed mile after mile.
| Where | Climb | Grade | Time | Power | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10.0 to 11.2 mi | 129 ft | 2.1% | 5:39 | 203 W |
| 2 | 42.1 to 42.8 mi | 121 ft | 3.3% | 3:54 | 230 W |
| 3 | 138.9 to 139.1 mi | 61 ft | 5.5% | 1:27 | 246 W |
For the guest rider at moderate pace. Ranked by what each one costs as a share of the ride, not by how tall it looks, then listed in the order you reach them.
About 72 g an hour at moderate pace. Each feed goes in about 20 minutes before the model says you need it, on an easier stretch rather than on a climb, and none in the last 20 minutes, where it could not be absorbed before the line.
| Feed | Mile | Into the ride | Carbohydrate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7.8 mi | 0:29 | 15 g |
| 2 | 29.9 mi | 1:55 | 27 g |
| 3 | 35.6 mi | 2:15 | 31 g |
| 4 | 41.2 mi | 2:36 | 32 g |
| 5 | 46.4 mi | 2:58 | 35 g |
| 6 | 53.8 mi | 3:27 | 44 g |
| 7 | 59.2 mi | 3:49 | 33 g |
| 8 | 69.6 mi | 4:32 | 63 g |
| 9 | 75.1 mi | 4:53 | 31 g |
| 10 | 83.4 mi | 5:22 | 42 g |
| 11 | 89.5 mi | 5:43 | 32 g |
| 12 | 95.0 mi | 6:03 | 29 g |
| 13 | 104.9 mi | 6:43 | 57 g |
| 14 | 113.9 mi | 7:14 | 47 g |
| 15 | 119.4 mi | 7:34 | 32 g |
| 16 | 129.2 mi | 8:11 | 54 g |
| 17 | 135.8 mi | 8:39 | 41 g |
| 18 | 142.1 mi | 9:03 | 36 g |
| 19 | 147.7 mi | 9:23 | 29 g |
| 20 | 157.5 mi | 9:58 | 54 g |
| 21 | 166.4 mi | 10:30 | 48 g |
| 22 | 172.4 mi | 10:54 | 33 g |
| 23 | 181.5 mi | 11:31 | 55 g |
| 24 | 187.4 mi | 11:51 | 30 g |
| 25 | 195.0 mi | 12:18 | 6 g |
From the burn the model puts on this course: work along the route, carbohydrate share from the pace, what your glycogen holds for your weight, and 400 kcal an hour through the gut for a glucose and fructose mix. Move the feeds to the aid stations you will actually use; the plan updates.
Set a goal time for the Unbound 200 and the app reads your recent rides against this course: a likely finish range, its middle, and your goal marked likely, possible, a stretch or unlikely. With a power meter from measured watts; without one, from your speed on your own ground.
What your best riding of each week would finish in on this route, so you can see whether the training is moving the number, not just adding miles.
Each of the climbs above, checked against what you actually ride: covered, mostly covered, thin or not ridden, so the next session goes where the race will hurt.
The route is cut into short segments and each is solved for the speed your power holds against gravity, rolling resistance for the surface, and air, thinner at altitude. On twisting trail your speed is capped by how fast you can corner, and on the far side of a climb you keep the speed you carried in. The time on each segment is added up, the reserve you spend above threshold and win back below it is tracked the whole way, and the carbohydrate is burned where the work is done. It is fitted against recorded races: on a Chequamegon 40 validation ride it predicted 2:24:28 against an actual 2:24:20.
For the guest rider the app opens with (185 lb, 280 W FTP, 20 kJ reserve), the model puts it at 13:00 at moderate pace, 14:08 riding steady and 12:24 riding aggressive. A fast rider at 150 lb, 350 W FTP, 28 kJ reserve is around 10:31. Put your own weight and fitness in and it forecasts yours.
Life Time's 2026 route announcement lists 9,000 ft for the Unbound 200. The route file the model rode measures 8,835 ft over 206.6 miles, between 1,072 and 1,663 ft.
Climb 2 on the chart, 42.1 miles in: 121 ft at 3.3%, 3:54 at 230 W for the guest rider at moderate pace.
At moderate pace the plan is 935 g of carbohydrate over the ride, about 72 g an hour, in 25 feeds. Each goes in about 20 minutes before the model says you need it, on an easier stretch, and the last is at mile 195 so it is absorbed before the line.
The model rode it as dirt road throughout, on a gravel bike. The organizer describes gravel roads through the Flint Hills. Surface is worth 13 to 17% of a finish time, so tag the sections in the app and the forecast follows.
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