I rode on Sunday with the same legging pangs that made me so sore on Saturday. BIG mistake. The leggings are made to be for aerobics, and have raised seams in the crotch for a dry-weave type liner. In a diamond shape. In a bad place. So I made it pretty far but my form was for crap. By the time I got home, I was almost in tears.

When my husband was out doing the laundry this morning, he took a good look at my shorts, and said, "Sweetie, with those seams it's a miracle you can even walk. Get some bike shorts. Today." So I ordered the Knickers Plus off the TE site today. Yeah me!

Also, this weekend I went and got some athletic men's shirts with a dry-weave material, pretty much the same stuff as jerseys. It's not as nice as a jersey, because it doesn't have a zipper or pockets, but it felt great when riding. And they're super long and not too loose, so they laid against my skin and did a good job of wicking the sweat. It almost made up for the fact that my crotch was aching so bad.

This week I'm going to give my poor soft spots a rest, and do weight training and the elliptical machine. My muscles are fine, but my heart keeps giving out on hills. I want to get my endurance up so that I can go fairly steadily for 1-1 1/2 hours and do longer rides on the weekends.

Biking is fun, but expensive. Now I have to get new pedals and cycling shoes, and at some point I want to upgrade my seat. Our LBS has a 30-day return policy and I have a distinct feeling my new saddle is going to be too mushy. I'm going to do that sit on a curb with a piece of paper thing and figure out exactly what size my seat should be before I go back to exchange my seat yet again.

It sure helps that my husband had tons of stuff from when he used to bike, including clothes, boxes of bike parts and an almost brand new pair of Diodoro Chili shoes that he's going to let me wear until I can afford shoes of my own.