Well, with my HIM coming up I have a decision to make... to take the tri bike or not to take it.

The course I am doing has a lot of rolling hills and a few steep climbs (the worst two being at miles 50-56, HA!). It's easy for me to shift my roadie and if there aren't a lot of flats I'm not sure how much I'll be in aero.

So, the only downside to taking the roadie is the seat. There is no way in hell my butt is making it 56 miles on that seat in tri shorts with no padding. And being the race is about 3 weeks out I'm not willing to try another seat.

I could change in transition... but I'd have to go to a port-o-john and then my T1 and T2 (changing out of cycling shorts into tri shorts) would be extremely long.

So, I saw that Oomph makes distance tri shorts. Has anyone tried these? I'm very close to ordering a pair as it's getting down the wire... but I wanted to get some feedback on them if I could. Do they REALLY have padding in them or is it this pathetic excuse for padding like typicaly tri shorts?

TE sells them, but they don't have pictures of the chamois. Dang it. Here's a link to them:

http://www.teamestrogen.com/products.asp?pID=20929

If this doesn't work then I'm back to the idea of taking the tri bike. Being in aero does get my off my sit bones and I know I can make it 56 miles in tri shorts on that bike. But again, with the hills, I'd rather not take it.