Tell us your sad sad tale of SAG woe

[Thorn]

Interesting timing on this question...I'm cleaning up the pictures from my last vacation. While we trained for it and while we should have been up to it, my DH spent a lot of time in the SAG aka the "Lancelot Cart" (in Arthurian lit--the cart was a trip of shame ). I rode with him the first time to keep him company. I felt really bad for him.

The reason? Shortly before we left, I started to get sick. No symptoms other than just really, really exhausted. Thought it was a lot of reasons, but after the first day, DH got the same symptoms (while I finally started to feel good). Guess it was a virus. End result was he just wasn't up to riding. Sometimes he'd ride in the morning and SAG the afternoon; on the ride with a hilly start, he rode from the outset.

So, yes, we've rode the SAG, but, no, I would never have signed up if I thought I would have to. In fact, on days when we had shorter options, we picked distances that we thought DH could handle. We're signed up for a century next weekend. Given the last couple of weeks, we'll be only setting off for the metric to avoid the SAG route home.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

The subject of this thread made me think it was a Chinese tragedy folktale...