This is part 2 for me as I did it back in my early NW days (1998).  This is a 202 mile bike ride from U of Washington to downtown Portland.  This year was good weather, albeit a bit hot.  This time I rode the course with Trent and Justin – both very strong riders.  We took a train up to Seattle on Fri night and got in late (bridge issue) – ended up getting to bed at 1am and alarm went of at 330am.  Ugh.  We pacelined most of the race save near the end when I suggested they move fwd. as they had more energy left than me.  The climbing was a bit surprising.  It was a bit more climbing (~5000 ft. in gain) than when I last did it in 1998 on the good ole Centurion – see:Cascade Bicycle Club Message Boards – but still fun nonetheless.  Race info: http://www.cascade.org/EandR/stp/STP_Details.cfm