Spinning the Pain Away

For the last five weeks, I have been spinning on Tuesday mornings.  It has been a challenging undertaking.  The 45 minute class has been surprisingly easy in some ways and hard in others.  The actual spinning doesn't bother me, nor does the up and down and increasing intervals.  What I can't seem to get is my form.  I believe I'm suppose to look like the gal on the left, straight back.  But, what I ultimately look like is the gal below.  Because what kills me is PAIN and discomfort of the damn bike seat.

Seriously, I think childbirth was worse.  And, I had two HUGE babies (over 10 pounds each) natural -- no epidurals.

Why does it hurt so damn bad? And, then for the rest of the day I am sore there or my lower back is sore. So, I assume my form is wrong.  Perhaps my seat, handle bars are not set right?  Thinking this, I stayed after class last week for some one on one time with my teacher.  She went over all my settings with me and said they were perfect and decided it's probably the seat... explaining it takes some time to get use to.  "Yeah, that seat is a killer!"  But, how much time?

I wanted to do spin because it would be challenging and it burns a lot of calories.  But, will I ever get use to the pain?  If I keep going will I eventually spin the pain away??

There's a really great blog online (where I swiped the drawing above) about a woman's experience spinning.  Actually, her entire blog is pretty fun.  It's about her attempt to become more athletic. Check it out.  Here's the Trying Not to Vomit in Spin Class from Tri-ing to be Athletic blog.