Originally Posted by
Carbonfiberboy
Ah, getting used to the saddle time. The best for me is to be on the bike consistently. IOW, better to ride 30 minutes a day than 2.5 hours only on Sunday. Which is what you're doing. Of course you also need the long ride, but work up to it. You may want to change saddles at some point. Most bikes come with a cheapy saddle because they know that no matter what they put on, many people won't like it. So start by slowly working up to a 150 mile week. Then try to ride a couple of centuries.
Machka has good starter info at:
http://www.machka.net/century.htm
She's probably sick of posting it, so I'll help her out.
Here's a 10-week schedule for working up to it, but you should add some extra distance for your event:
http://www.planetpedal.com/goals/cen..._schedule.html
Also, 10 weeks is really optimistic. You're starting about the right time.
and see, part of my problem now is that i just can't make myself stay on the bike more than about 30 minutes. i don't know if it's a bad seat-to-butt fit, or if i'm just that un-used to sitting on something that narrow (my office chair is nice and cushy
)
if the feel of things doesn't improve, at what point should i give up on the seat and go get a new one? and will my LBS let me test-ride them?
i'm sure there's a ton of threads on here about choosing the right seat, so i won't ask.