On my ride Saturday, we were fantasizing about how you could make a saddle with those blue ice gel packs for the seat...

The only time I ever got _really_ swollen down there was on my 400k when my knee was hurt and I kept shifting around trying to find a comfortable position. I am NOT exaggerating- my cootchie was unrecognizeable as such and looked like I had been sititng on a wasp nest for several hours. (And felt like it too!)

I took a hot bath, lathered it all up with Bag Balm, went to bed with an ice pack between my legs at 10PM, and was back on the bike completing my ride at 5AM. I was sort of afraid to look, before I got back on the bike, and remember kind of shrieking the first time I sat down, but after a while it was ok, and by that evening, and more baths and icings, everything was back to normal.

I get a lot more damage from chafing from running say a trail marathon. That takes a lot longer to heal- say a week, than some swollen girly bits from on the bike.

Nanci