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Perry2
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 Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 3:19 pm Post subject: bike seat pain |
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| Opted to not run in this one after all. Instead I took out my mountain bike, pumped up the tires and went for an hour ride. I wanted to go longer than I did but the seat was killing me. Even today I sore. I suppose I'll be laughing about this in a few days like my wife is now. Is this normal or do I just have a terrible seat? Before I take it out again I have to change something. Maybe a roll of Charmin. |
Scott, last summer I found chafing a problem biking, and first got bike shorts (conventional biking shorts, spandex with padding -- I was only using regular shorts before and had never worn bike shorts), and then a gel seat, and finally was able to bike without chafing.
This past Tuesday I tried the PaxVelo Medley's Neck Time Trial and hit a different problem -- not chafing, but muscle bruising. I was doing fine (well, working hard) wearing bike shorts on a hybrid bike with a regular seat until mile 17 -- by mile 18 I quit, unable to sit on the saddle at all. It took all week for the bruised feeling to go away from my rear end, altho I could sit down. Happily it was gone by Sat (yesterday), b/c yesterday morning I did the Pax base tri. I put the gel seat on a road bike and used it for the base tri (13.1mi bike) and had no rear end pain at all -- wearing tri shorts (which have less padding than bike shorts, b/c they're for swimming & running as well).
My conclusion is that for me sometime between 10 and 20 miles I'm likely to have bruising, unless I use the gel seat -- I don't know where I'll hit it with that -- but if I'd get regular about biking, I expect I could push out the limit further and further.
I've talked to others about saddle pain -- one colleague said that 70miles into a Century he felt like all of a sudden the seat fell off and he was sitting on the pole. Another colleague said she tried three saddle last summer, the second a gel seat, and the third something else, before she settled on the third as the most acceptable one. She also told me that Bike Doctor Waldorf has a 30 day return on saddles.
Of course we have two bike stores here on Great Mills in Lex Park (Serge's Performance Cycles & Mike's Bikes), and there is one over on Solomon's (Patuxent Adventure Center). Serge (of Serge's) has race experience, and an interest in triathlons, and Trish Lane (of Patuxent Adventure Center) has a lot of triathlon experience, I think -- so they can both talk comfortably to runners and triathletes (I can say with experience).
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scott
Joined: 19 Mar 2008
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Location: mechanicsville (Chopticon area)
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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 4:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks for the info. The Bruising issue is what I was experiencing. I'm also keeping my eye out a good used road bike. I know they're expensive and I don't know if this is something I will enjoy for the long hull, so I'm looking for a used bike to get started. If anyone has any suggestions on getting started I'd be welcome to ideas. What I did like was that I could carry my water pack and cell phone and a few other things while training. None of these thing I'm able to take while running. With the marathon in October I'm trying to figure out how to deal with training in the heat. Biking in the heat seems much safer than running, when it comes to hydration. This isn't to say I'm not running anymore but I'm going to incorporate this into one of my long training days a week.
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Perry2
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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 11:53 pm Post subject: |
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| What I did last August, when it was 90s and triple digits, was tried to do multiple returns by my house, for drink stops.
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vic_runner
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| There may be another explaination of this. When I run very long, mostly in the marathon, something disturbing happens when I run out of gas. When I get to a certain point of fatigue, which most describe as the wall, I realize I have to run slower or are forced to. At this point I start running differently. I'm slower, but worse my stride is not the efficient one that allowed me to run at my normal pace. This change in running not only ruins my time but forces me to run differently, putting strain in areas that aren't used to the torture. So a few miles after the wall, real pain starts to set in because this wasteful form. Unfortunately I think that the only way out of this would be to take it easier in the earlier miles. It gets really hard to tell that your going too hard in a big endurance event as it's a combination of your fitness that day, the heat and probably a whole bunch of other factors. Every time I get a negative split I've failed at decerning this. So chainging the way you push later in a long bike event could be your response to being burnt out and changing the muscles you use to continue.
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