Cinderella advice, please

[Trek420]

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.

[ace]

Hey Trek,

What's "DNF?" Dive nose first? Dally nonchalantly in Fremont? I guessed "do not fail," but that would mean your plan is never to not fail, which means you always plan to fail (feel free to smack me)



Confusedly,
Amy

[Trek420]

Hey Trek,

What's "DNF?" Dive nose first? Dally nonchalantly in Fremont? I guessed "do not fail," but that would mean your plan is never to not fail, which means you always plan to fail (feel free to smack me)



Confusedly,
Amy

I like all your answers better than .... Did Not Finish. Especially "Dally Nonchalantly in Fremont"

But, leave yourself the option or surprising yourself. If you need to crosstrain to baby your knee on a hill it's all good. "Any forward motion counts" is my motto and what steep sections there are .... are short. Pick a pace and find a low gear you might be a DF (did finish).

Speaking of dallying....I'd better move, Knott got bumped up to an earlier flight.

[smilingcat]

ahh... hmmm... lemon drop hill? another hill before that??

length, vertical feet, grade?? I haven't really ridden in like 6 years or so and all I have logged so far is measly 300 miles or so. And maybe 10-15- maybe 20 hours on my trainer. 6 years ago, I passed on easy ride but I'm 6 years older, 6 years of sedentary life. It's not coming back as well as I would like.

am a bit nervous. PLan to do a 40 mile ride with about 1,500 ft climb this weekend back to back (one Sat. and one on Sun.) Still fretting about DNFing. Bit embarrassed if I DNF or dump the ride.

Strong head wind toward the finish? yuck. cold? doubly yuck.
Well instead of whining I guess I'll just have to DO IT!!

Sheesh another thing to worry about. I think I'll wear my long tights instead of shorts. bring a set of leg warmer and arm warmers... I don't have a riding mitt just riding gloves. riding jacket... A dry towel in my car. A thermos with hot cocoa in my car.

with much trepidation,

[spokewench]

Don't feel bad gals. I've only logged about 100 miles in 2 1/2 months. That means I have not been riding. Albeit I have 20 years of cycling under my belt, but I will be suffering nonetheless.

Thankfully, the Cindy is a pretty easy ride. Truthfully, it really is not hard.

Come along and see what you can do. It is all about the challenge