Quote Originally Posted by SadieKate
GLC - did your butt hurt during the 42 mile ride or only the next day when you got back on the bike? If it was the latter, you probably just need the saddle time. Not uncommon for your butt (usually the sitbones which would be noticeable the next day) to be sore just from increasing mileage.

Sounds like you finished strong! Good going.

Ditto! My butt always hurts if I have been off the bike or not riding longer distances. You need to break it in to get it used to riding longer distances - just like any other part of your body. When I start the year after a light winter, my butt will hurt. But I did a 200 miler Saturday with no butt pain whatsoever. It's conditioning.

While a seat height change may be in order, the fact that nothing else hurt except your butt seems to point to just needing to get saddle time. I'd cautio against changing your seat height, and giving yourself more saddle time first to see if that helps. Changing seat height could lead to other problems. Also, there's a difference between saddle "tired" sore and saddle "pain holy cow I can't go on like this" sore. Sounds like yours may just be the former (not to downplay it at all). So try more saddle time first.