the spirit was willing but the knees and arches were week.

Yay! I'm glad you're hurting less.

And I hear you on the seat height thing. I have to watch my seat post, it seems to want to slip down a bit.

Hey, Madscot, have you already purchased clipless pedals?

ZenCentury passed on a pair of campus forte pedals. I think I will use those until I decide that I want to do a century this autumn or I fall on my face/ side of face too many times. I will probably upgrade sooner or later. What system do you have?