A String of Conversations along the Dirty Kanza XL In the last week of May, Lael Wilcox rode 650 miles from PEARL iZUMi headquarters in Louisville, Colorado to Emporia, Kansas with Dylan Morton. She rested for 2 days before starting the DKXL, a 339 mile self-supported gravel race through the Kansas Flint Hills. This is the second year of the race. Seventy-eight of us ride through a quarter mile tunnel of cheers and waves at three in the afternoon for the neutral start of the DKXL. We ride together for four and a half miles on pavement until we turn…