Is this a normal experience?

[mimitabby]

if you didn't ride any more than before, and you ARE doing your core exercises, take the bike back and tell them where it hurts!
You shouldn't hurt that bad from a bike that fits. When i went from hybrid to a road bike, I had a lot of issues because the bike didn't fit me right.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I think there's a difference between pain while you are riding and soreness after you ride.
To me this sounds like muscle soreness from being in a new position.

Before I got into biking, I used to do 3-4 mile brisk fitness walks almost every day. Then I started biking, and got so into it that I totally stopped doing my walks for about 8 months.
Then last month my knee started getting sore and I figured I'd alternate walking with biking to see if it helped.
OH MY GOD after my first two walks I could hardly hobble around the house! My entire body was in pain and I felt ancient. And here I was biking between 75-100 miles a week, yet I could barely hobble around just from a couple of brisk 4 mile walks!! It was becuase the two activities used slightly different muscles in different ways.
Happily, after my 3rd walk I felt ok and now I walk twice a week along with my biking to make sure this doesn't happen again. (Besides, I need the weight-bearing exercise to prevent bone loss.)

It's amazing how painful sore muscles can be after a new kind of workout.

[Lori]

http://www.giant-bicycles.com/en-US/bikes/kids/1290/29388

Here is the link to my bike. Also the seat that I have is a Selle Royal 3Demension, which seems to be okay. My butt is not huritng.

I was measured and fit for the bike when I bought it and tested it at the store.

I am thinking that maybe I am to stretched out . Maybe the handles bars are to far away.

What is a reasonable distance between the handlesbars and the seat?

I have also noticed that when I am off the bike and I push it backwards, it is much harder to roll it backwards than forwards. It almost feels as if the brake might be on.Sort of "tighter" if that makes any sense.

I have checked the brake and it is not on.

This whole process has kind of made me feel like an idiot.

Thanks for your time ladies.