By Mary Rarick
Some of you may recall that way back in April I wrote about my intention to buy a bicycle seat, convinced that if I had a better seat, I’d ride.
Turns out I haven’t been lying to myself all these years. Since the installation of a new seat I am able to ride, pain free, for as long as I like. Well, pain free is a bit of an overstatement. The pain, banished from my buns, has taken up residence in my quads.
And ridden I have. I started out with easy half-mile rides to my walking buddy’s house. Saturday my husband and I biked about ten miles on Sauvie Island supporting a friend who was running his first marathon. Sunday we biked to the gym. And today, the pièce de résistance: I commuted to the office…on my bike. The woman I’ve always dreamed of being commutes on her bike, so I’m calling this progress.
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Okay, you have seriously got my attention. What is the brand of bike seat you purchased? Exactly, if you please, so that I may haul my tormented tush out to buy my own!
I bought the original EasySeat from http://painfreecycling.com/, Katrina. I can only imagine how comfortable the higher-end models would be.
Seriously worth it.
Wow, I am impressed. I have started biking with my kids but am certainly not up to a 10 mile bike ride. I need to look into that seat idea too. Congratulations on this new journey.
Let me clarify that the ten miles that I rode on Saturday was in three separate sections since I was supporting a friend with the marathon. The easiest way for me to incorporate bike riding is just to do it for ordinary everyday stuff, like going to the gym, picking up something small at the pharmacy or grocery store or dropping my son off for a play date (we both biked). I can’t imagine myself just planning a ten-mile bike ride; it’s just not who I am or how I operate.
But the seat has made all the difference in the world. The bike is nothing to write home about; it’s a freebie from a friend from years ago, probably originally purchased at Target for $50.