Do I have a saddle problem? Recommendations?
I ride my road bike just about every morning, generally 20 miles at a time, but sometimes 16. My regular 20-mile route is 1 h, 15 min. So that's usually the longest I stay on the bike at a time. For now, anyway, I don't have much more time than that to ride.
I am using the stock saddle. It seemed fine. I am generally fine in any kind of shorts - even unpadded, though that's not my preference. So anyway, no real problems.
But, I do have a very high pain/discomfort tolerance, so I thought, after reading a few saddle threads, maybe I should check the size. Plus, my lack of problems could just be because I'm not spending a lot of time in the saddle in a single ride. What if I wanted to go on a long ride - I may be just miserable.
Sometimes the pressure on the soft tissue is enough for me to notice it. And I don't like noticing things - I don't like to be aware of anything when I excercise except for the task in front of me. I do shift around, a LOT. I shift back, and back, and back... I scoot, I wiggle.
Using my kids play-doh, my sit bones measured 133 mm from center to center.
I think my saddle may be too small. I can't tell how wide this saddle is, because it curves down on the sides and it is very squishy. The sides give easily with just my thumb.
I do seem to like the shape. I'm considering trying the Terry Butterfly Ti Saddle, but I'm up for suggestions.
Here is the saddle, with pennies depicting where my sitbones hit (highly scientific):


~ working mom to 3 little girls ~
Roadie... 2010 54cm Trek Madone 4.5, Bontrager inForm