NY biker, I am not sure if it was normal, new rider pain or not. It didn't hurt the soft tissue. There was maybe a little bit of tenderness there immediately following the longer ride but nothing that lasted. I had some slight chaffing on my right inner thigh but I think that was more due to the baggy style mountianbike shorts I was wearing. I didn't experience that on other shorter rides wearing the longer spandex shorts so I wasn't concerned with that. It just hurt for about a week after that longer ride to sit on the
saddle at all and it felt like the bones were bruised, not the tissue.

I switched to my old WTB SST and that was better but I haven't done anything more then 5 or 6 miles on that one and I know it isn't a good option for longer rides which I would like to do on this new bike. And really, the Bontrager Evoke 1 was ok (not great but ok) for those kinds of distances before I did the longer ride so I didn't really get much by making that switch.