For three weekends of riding I was sitting on a borrowed saddle: a Selle Italia gel flow. In an earlier post I had talked about how this saddle was making my sit bones sore. There was a bit more damage than that; there was some significant bruising. It gave a new meaning to "pain in the ass". Ha ha. Also it has been determined that my pain threshold is off the charts. My next career should involve travel to dangerous countries as a U.S. spy because when captured, the torture will not bother me enough to cough up classified information.

So I am now back on a fat cushy ladies saddle until my rear end stops hurting. I was able to ride this weekend without pain, but the fat saddle was driving me nuts. I could be making this up, but I think that a harder saddle allows for more power transfer to the pedals. It definitely allows you to reposition yourself on the saddle according to whatever task is at hand.

My next attempt is the Specialized Jett saddle. This one isn't hugely different than the SI gel flow, except that it is 13 mm wider and has some more padding around the cut-out.

If that one doesn't work out for me, I will give up on that shape of saddle and try something completely different.