HillSlugger paced, cajoled, prodded, and basically pushed me through today's Wild Woman 8K road race in Frederick MD today.

Other than last week's track interval session (which was run/walk for essentially the same distance), this was the longest run I've done since the Celtic Solstice run in December. I was pathetically under-trained for this run and needed Slugger's aide - or I never would have met my goal of 55 minutes (as it was, I came in at 54:25, or I think I saw 33 out of 53 in my age group). Soundly in the back of mid-pack as is my accustomed place. So, MAJOR PROPS to HillSlugger!!! For her, it was an easy training run. Little did she realize how easy it would be for her. She probably went home and ran sprints! Me...I went to the LBS to test ride bikes, so I got about 12 miles of bike riding in after that. Ugh... and no...I didn't buy anything...not impressed with what I rode...took home a pair of Dura Ace wheels - on loan - to try in the thoughts of yet another re-build of my old Axiom to serve as my dedicated "go fast" bike.