Having ridden a recumbent quite a bit for the last three years, I had gotten used to not having post ride pain in my sit bones. I even rode a lot of miles on my single speed last year and never had an issue with sore sit bones or, as some of my coworkers call it, "numbus junkus". That all changed on last weekend's gravel century. I started having some soreness around mile 45 that just got worse and worse until I finally had to call it a day early. I've ridden the same seat on the same bike all winter on the local trails with no issues, albeit on snow most of the time. Took a few days off the bike, and yesterday's 6 mile round trip was still making me more sore than I should be. This morning I swapped seats from my skinny tire gravel rig over to the Monkey. Ride to work was fine. Took off early to get a longer loop in before the sun went down. 14 miles later and I'm sore again. More riding on the horizon for tomorrow as I head downtown to volunteer at the Des Moines Bike Kollective. Not sure what to do at this point. I'm going to try a different pair of shorts tomorrow and see if it appears to help any. I know chamois wears out, and these are my favorite shorts, but I think that I should be able to get more than a year out of a reasonably not cheap pair of Pearl-Izumi's.
Thoughts from anyone reading this appreciated.
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