But Daddy, it hurts!  That's a five year old DEB complaining
really quite vociferously that her bottom is hurting. No, she
hasn't been naughty and she hasn't been smacked. She has saddle
sore. She is stiff and aching and there are small patches of
abraded skin, too. She has it because she has been riding for
what feels like forever, to her five year old brain at least,
but is probably a few hours. The bad news is that it's going to
hurt. The good news is that she'll get over it.  Ask any cyclist
or horse rider and they will regale you with horror stories of
their saddle sore. It's a fact of riding life.  Saddle sore has
two interpretations: neither is pleasant but one is definitely
worse than the other. Both can—and probably will—afflict you,
whether your saddle is of the bi-wheeled or equine variety.
Stiff, sore, and achey  We'll ease you into things and start
with the more common, less severe form of saddle sore. It's
stiff, sore, acheyness that will leave your upper thigh muscles
so tight that they'll fee