Originally Posted by FullRunSilviaKs

STP is a blast. My first was in '08 and we did it in 2 days, last year we 1 day'd it, about 13 hours total, 11 hours in the saddle. If you can do it in 2 days, you can do it in one day. Yeah, its a *really* long day, but you don't have to sleep in a tent on the ground, then wake up cold and sore and ride another hundred miles.

The added bonus of being a 1 day rider (aside from the patch you get) is on Hwy 30 there is NO shade at mid-day when you'd be on it. In '08 it was 90 degrees and I was going through 2 bottles every 10 miles. In '09 since we were going through much later in the day the sun was lower and there was plenty of shade.