Quote Originally Posted by cunninghamair View Post
Silly question, but did you work up to that 30 miles slowly? Your behind needs to get used to spending that much time in the saddle. You can't blame it all on the saddle if you didn't step up your mileage slowly.

I ditto the shorts--I've spent as much on shorts as I have on my saddle. I save my expensive shorts for longer rides.

I use a brooks saddle.

Yes. I had done a 12 mile and a 15 mile earlier that week, and about the same the week before for this saddle. 30 miles is my usual average ride on a Saturday and/or Sunday.

I went to the LBS this morning and we switched it out for a Lithia 743. I asked about what would be normal for 'break in' on a new saddle, and he asked about my normal ride (12 to 15 miles at at time durring the week due to time constraints) and he said I should know by the third ride if it's working for me or not, so we'll see.

I'm definately going to investigate the shorts issue as well. I have two pair of Shebeest that I love and a pair of Pearl Izumi that are okay. But I'm just getting in to the cut-out version of saddles, so maybe that's part of it. I'll do a ride or two with regular shorts and see if that makes a difference.

Thanks everyone for the input! I really appreciate it.