Thanks for all of the encouragement! I came to work and told everyone how far I rode (none of my coworkers ride), so I got either "yeah... that's great...whatever" or "you rode that far??? wow!" - so sort of both ends of the spectrum.

Y'all have made my day with all the congrats!

I've been reading all of the gazillion comments on saddles. My problem is not the sitbones - they are suprisingly ok. It's the girly bits that suffered. As tlkiwi put it "the bonty of death" did a number on me. I can't even think of using the drops - that would be really painful. Would've been nice in that wind, though. Soon I will have a new saddle!