Quote Originally Posted by Veronica View Post
I would not go into a ride knowing I was most likely going to SAG without a plan for someone, not a course worker, to pick me up.

Especially on a ride like Cinderella, where there are so many new riders, those course workers need to be out there for the mishaps and mechanicals of the others.

V.
There's no shame in sagging, each long ride I do has "a plan". My plan is never 'to DNF"

Things happen to bike and/or body, there's no harm in doing our best.

The Cindy has a "rep" of being an easy Century. It's less hilly than most out here. For me it's been an early season ride, a shake down cruise to see how I'm doing so far. But it always has more than it's fair share of first time metric riders, even first time riders

Gotta be honest my plan on the Cindy is: start early, warm up briefly then go fast and get in front of most of them

Hey, 3 or was it 4 years ago one of them was me.

The much advertised Lemon Drop Hill is after lunch, but there is a harder hill before lunch (without Lemon Drops on the top, darn.). After lunch headwinds are worse than the hills.

Somewhere here there is the debate about personal SAG vehicles pro and con.

The volunteers last year had to work so hard though many did not even start I think many of those who did took the warm ride in the car. I know i thought about it.

My vote if injured would be save the knee to ride another day.