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I've actually been pleasantly surprised how little irritation I had after 50 miles, I wasn't super comfortable by the end but bib shorts+moisturizer+new comfortable seat worked pretty well, and I was fine the next day. I'll definitely take your advice to keep looking for room to optimize though!
What I'm talking about it more, the first hour I was singing along to my music choices, the second and third hours I was listening to Darryl Cooper give me the other side on Adolf Hitler and fascinated, and then the last hour I kept looking for a podcast to hold my attention.
If I get a chance to ride my neighborhood on a nice day, I basically want to just work on hills, because I suck at them to a degree I find embarrassing, and getting better at them will open up more rides around my home. Oddly, given the autism, I hate overly complicated metrics in workouts. I nearly always gravitate towards simplicity and effort over metrics. Lifting I'm either doing some variation of OLAD or Bulgarian styles, or I'm doing a Smolov style focus on one lift. Climbing and BJJ I just go out and do it. I think cycling has appealed to me for a similar reason, that at least to start all I needed to do was roll out of my driveway and I'd be at the bottom of a hill and need to make my way back.
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