A'Jet, you and Coach DeeAnn should put on an exhibition of freaky ways to work your core. When we met at my gym, she demonstrated about 50 exercises that I am nowhere close to being able to do. Single legged squats on top of a swiss ball? Sideways planks where you then rotate your top arm through underneath you while maintaining perfect form? And now Hermes is doing Chinee acrobat moves too? Gimme a break!

I had an interesting conversation, in a bar of course, with a woman ultra-marathoner in her mid 50's. One of those who, like the Diva, kick all the younger folks butts all the time. She said what really got her to the top of the rankings was building up her core strength. Marathons are training runs for her.

By the way, my wheels arrived last night, and I mounted tires and a cassette. It's nice that I bought from an ad on a forum, and everything was exactly as advertised. He even had a little goodie bag in the box with brake pads and some spare parts he had. Wheels look great - can't wait to ride them as soon as it STOPS RAINING! I use the Gunnar in the rain, mostly because it has SPDs that match my older shoes.