We arrived Friday evening shortly after 5:00 PM. It soon became apparent that there were a lot of people parking cars and moving to the MPEC building. In addition to activities inside the MPEC building there was even more outside; mountain bike race, criterium race and numerous food stands and other vendors. I had heard that 14,000 riders were expected. Thank goodness the consumer expo had more space with the spaghetti dinner moving next door to the coliseum. There was almost enough room to navigate among the booths versus years past when breathing was an option.

The video included is a recap of what I saw. I think it is self-explanatory.