Meet The 73-Year-Old Man Who Won The First STP And Rode In All The Rest

KUOW | By Ross Reynolds

Published September 15, 2015 at 8:15 AM AKDT

Jerry Baker is seen with wife Deborah Stephenson and daughter Julia Baker after he finished this year's Seattle to Portland ride — his 36th STP.";

Ross Reynolds talks to bicyclist Jerry Baker, who won the first Seattle to Portland bicycle ride in 1979 and has ridden in every STP since, about participating in the 36th annual ride this year along with an estimated 10,000 others.

This segment originally aired July 10. Baker died Sept. 10 at age 73 of leukemia.