I guess now I'm officially a Radonneur! :) Was hoping to do it in 9 hours, but <9.5 hours wasn't bad considering I only had about 2 hours sleep and that I was holding back so as to not lose people... Started leading a largish group, but then lost a few people to the pace. Did that for the first 1.5 hours at about 90% effort. Then gave it over to the others who kept saying no one else was going to want to work that hard for the full 300 km's. But I quickly took over again, as it was a bit too slow for me - but I made sure people could hang on my wheel, rather than just take off. Eventually, there were just 7 of us. We were the first cyclists to reach each of the 4 checkpoints, including the finish! I led the peloton most of the way - probably 85-90% (seems to me we had more than 50% headwind!), with the others happy enough to ride along at a good clip. I used the lap/split function to mark our arrival at each checkpoint (there's one that shows a time of 6 seconds - that's when I accidentally hit the button twice at one stop). The organizer came up to me later and said "you must be the strong stranger everyone is talking about!" Nice compliment. I had to lead - I can't do just 31 or 33 km/hr - I get too impatient. What a great day - not full-out race pace - maybe 85% with a few dipsy-doodles when Garmin sent me/us in the wrong turn (including one where I dropped a chain, then had to hustle to catch up with the group and resume my lead duties!). Liv Ambassador, Johanna Fietst (aka Johanna Josten) made this great little video of our ride: https://www.facebook.com/JohannaFietst/videos/1425584320868010/