still the craziest

OK. New rule: stupid-long bike commutes maybe once a week. Not twice a week. Definitely not twice a week. Once a week.

I think I did pretty well, in fact. I could tell very early on this morning that I was still a little tired from Monday's ride. Still, the trip in to the city went smoothly, I got to work in a neat 90 minutes, showered and went on with my day.

When I headed home at 5:30, it was clear right away that all the riding was taking its toll on me. I figured out that I needed to pace myself carefully if I wanted to make it home at all. This is normally very difficult for me. When I ride, I ride as fast as I can; I settle into the fastest pace that I can maintain comfortably and stick to that. I can rarely manage to slow myself down to conserve energy -- my body just keeps wanting to speed up.

Tonight, though, my body knew better, and kept me to a sensible cadence. I got home about 20 minutes later than I'd planned and quite worn out, but not completely and totally depleted, as I often end up after a long ride.

86.8 miles since Monday. That may be a personal record.

Things to take away from today:

It was good that I pushed myself to do something I'd never done before and wasn't sure I could do.

It was even better that I paid attention to my body and figured out how to pace myself so that I could make it all the way home and still have energy for the kids.

When you see someone struggling with a flat tire by the side of the road, without the proper tools and know-how, stopping to help him fix it is a wonderful thing to do... and yet, you might want to consider being the good Samaritan someplace other than the side of a Carlisle road, at dusk, in May.

A very hot shower has a theraputic effect on a thousand mosquito bites.

Yeah.

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Most of my experiences with seat pain have been the result of a poorly adjusted seat -- too high, too low, or tilted too much one way or the other. Your tuchus is really sensitive to tiny adjustments this way. Even tilting it forward a couple of degrees can make a huge difference.

Your sitbones should bear most of your weight. The seat should be positioned in such a way that when you're sitting on it, you're sitting on those bones and not putting a lot of pressure on your soft tissue, which can pinch nerves, crush blood vessels, etc.

In general, sitting on the bike should not cause pain. When I get back from a long ride my sitbones are a little sore, but my extremities do not feel numb. If the seat is causing you pain then something's wrong. It could be the seat itself but I would bet that it's just tilted a little too much the wrong way.

The split seats with the little comfort grooves down the middle are supposed to be pretty good, from what I hear! And you shouldn't worry about whether you're getting a "wimp seat" or anything like that. The seat should not cause pain.

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