.... But how did your butt feel the next day?
Finally stopped hurting today.
During that 25 mile training ride it hurt so bad. I wore padded shorts, but still: bike seats are so firm.
So I knew going into the 100 it was going to be no laughing matter. Around mile 3 I
already started feeling the bone by the taint/between the cheeks to feel it. In my head, "97 miles left. I can get through it." There was no getting through it.
What helped was I carried a little travel sized jar of Vaseline and applied it at every rest stop: around every 15-20miles. Occasionally, I would literally position my body so that my one ass cheek was only sitting on the seat. Would rotate. But in the end, the bone ended up just becoming numb after sitting on it for ~10 seconds, so I made sure it was a long stretch of smooth road and I would just tough it out for 10 seconds and then it felt okay. In the final 10 miles it seemed I would rotate from left cheek --> bone --> right cheek every mile or so. You could ask, "Why didn't you just stand up?" There was no fucking way.
With riding, and stopping at 7 different rest stops, stopping at the lunch rest stop (one of the 7) where I was there ~20 minutes, it took me around 8 hours.
Now, the experience was amazing. I highly recommend any of you that are around the Cbus area or even in NE Ohio to come down and participate next year. 100% of the fundraising goes towards cancer research: Every. Single. Penny. I was forced into signing up from coworkers (because I didn't want to pay the price for the bike. They are fucking crazy expensive now-a-days) but my Grandmother was diagnosed with serious cancer 2 weeks ago. So I didn't care if I pulled a charlie horse in both my hammy's, calves, and dick, I was toughing out the ride for her.
Next year when this rolls around, I will write in here and tag some Cbus people that don't come in here, like Rob to join in. Of course my office likes to ride as much as a team as possible, but I will ride with some RCF people if we can get a team going. With the way people are willing to donate on here, and with Glen's or A-Squared's badass artistic skills, we could get some serious cash to donate towards the cause and some seriously badass jerseys.