I've done parts of this before but it was years ago. This year they offered family rides of 10 miles, 33, 50, 68, 100 and 162 mile rides. I opted for the metric century ride of 68 with 5,000' of elevation. That was enough. Don't know how anyone could do the 162 miles with all the hills on Whidbey but RAMROD was 152 miles and 10,000' of elevation. But it was basically 3 long climbs and then down or flat. Whidbey Island seems unending steep shorter climbs that never ends.
Logistics of getting to the start were complicated for those of us on the Pennisula. Ferry service from Pt. Townsend cut down to only 1 boat with boats only every 90 minutes and most of the reservations were filled. So I arrived at the start late and pretty much biked alone as they were rolling up the food at the rest stops. Really really glad I had a little "assist" after the first 40 miles. Dinnner in Coupeville at Toby's for their mussles, fries and one light beer. Then on to Clinton to try and catch a ferry and after 2 hours in line made the boat.
Data: Discovered in the first 10 miles that the ebike computer was not working. Apparently, the battery was dead so had no way to check battery status or shift level of support up or down so resorted to the button on the cross bar to manipulate the level.
Used level 1 sparingly to Langley but occassionally went to level 2. On the way home used all 3 levels of assist as needed and battery light said I was under 50% Don't know what I had left at the end but I pretty much stayed in level 1 or higher the last 30 miles.