Originally Posted by
magohn
Depends on your definition of 'flat'. If a rider has only trained for the ride on bike paths then he/she will struggle on the STP. The ride is 80% on actual roads with all that comes with that. There is a decent hill in Puyallup (40 miles in) and day two has a series of 'rollers' for 30 miles or so.Then you have the regular ups and downs of any road.
I was very glad I focused on hill-training because there was much more climbing than I expected. My Garmin put the climbing at around 5400ft - not much at all over 204 miles, but also not 'flat'.
STP DAY 1 - 2400ft climbing
STP DAY 2 - 3000ft climbing
Lol, it was flat when I was 16 or at least what I remember of it.
The only major climb is Rainer Bridge as I remember. But I was young and not fat so it might be different now!
