Rode out to Marymoor with Dirk and Mattan for the start of Flying Wheels. It was just about a perfect day, until the rain started as we were leaving North Bend; it was cold and damp after that. We hung on to a fast rider after the first rest stop and he did a hard pull for about 15 miles at ~35kmph, which made that section just fly by. Other highlights included the couple of guys on those racing hand-pedal wheel chair things, the lady cruising on a gravel/hybrid who had done RAMROD 18 times and her 70 year old(!) companion, and the pickle juice shots at the rest stops. Lowlights include more rear hub trouble (made noise the whole way, and was quite loose by the end), sore toes (my shoes are too tight after ~>4 hours), a flat about 5 miles from the end (fixed it, but it was cold and wet and everything was dirty), and the worst: biting my cheek while eating a banh mi at the end. Surprisingly not too exhausted afterwards; eating so much food along the way, and having wheels to hang on to, surely helped a lot!