Tag: STP

 

200+ miles and 14 hours of riding later, we rolled into Portland. The ride was great, despite a bit of a mishap that left Andy with 3 stitches, but no worse for the wear. Yet again, the Cascade Bicycle Club did a great job putting on the ride.

This year’s pace was a bit slower than last year, but not by much. We did pretty much the same ride as last year – 135 miles to Castle Rock, and then the remainder on the next day.

I’ve posted some of the better pictures up here, and the GPS stats are below:

Day 1 – 134+ miles, about 9 hours in the saddle (15.0 MPH Average) – 4 hours of stopped time.
Day 1 GPS Tracks Here

Day 2 – 66+ miles, 4 hours 42 min in the saddle (16.4 MPH Average) – 34 min of stopped time.
Day 2 GPS Tracks Here

It’s 200+ miles from Seattle to Portland by bike. It’s fun. It’s kinda insane. And I definitely want to do it again. The Cascade Bicycle Club does a great job putting on this event – particularly considering the 10,000+ riders participating. It went really well, and had a great time riding with my Windows crew.

It was a challenge to keep up with my group on several of the stretches (particularly the up hills!), but I was impressed with how fast we could get going as a group drafting off of one another. We had splits where we averaged 17.7 MPH across spans of 2 hours!

 

We split our ride into two days, stopping at Castle Rock at the end of Day 1:

Day 1 – 135+ miles, about 8 hours in the saddle (16.1 MPH Average)
Day 1 GPS Tracks Here

Day 2 – 65+ miles, about 4 hours in the saddle (16.9 MPH Average)
Day 2 GPS Tracks Here

Given those numbers, I’m tempted to try to do the whole 200 mi in one day next year. I think if we keep our stops to a minimum (we stopped for a total of 4 hours on the first day) we could make it happen.