Originally Posted by
aggiegrads
I am in the process of training for a century, and my training rides have (so far) been less than 40-50 miles. At what distance do most people use Chamois cream? Is it temperature dependent?
I am using a comfortable seat and use cycling shorts (PI Attack short).
It varies with each person.
For me, I'm OK for a 200km without chamois cream. For my recent 300km I put cream on before the ride (Chamois Butt'r) and considered re-applying somewhere around the 200km point but didn't bother and had no problem. But I also have very painful memories of the last 200km of a 600km where I had not applied cream often enough, got chafed raw, and had a very unpleasant second day of the ride. So on the 400km and longer I'll probably reapply every 100km after the first 200.