"If we don't suffer enough we won't remember it."

5 miles with Marie and Rebecca avg 7:46

12 miles up/down Provo Canyon avg 6:59 pace.  This was the same run I did Thursday.  It felt a little easier than Thursday running about the same pace, so that was good.  I think my stops were a little shorter too.

I felt great after my run on Tuesday and was all excited to do a hard hill workout today.  That was until late in the afternoon when I pulled my quad.  I hurried into the bathroom with my daughter and squatted down to help her take off her multi layerd dance costume while she was already in the process of peeing her pants.  When the excitement was over I realized the pain in my quad. 

I always try to be careful on the day of a long run for that very reason, but the pee was coming out! and we were away from home!  She just turned 5 and has never peed her pants away from home before.  To make matters worse I had just taken the "emergency" underwear and pants out of the car three weeks earlier.  I had them in there for 2 years and never needed them, until now. 

I figure if my quad still hurts to walk I better not run.  I really want to go long on Saturday, so I'm hoping to be better by then.

20 miles avg 7:16 pace. After several days off my quad felt much better. I ran from my house up Provo Canyon/South Fork and back. I saw runners gathering at the start of the Provo City Marathon on my way up, but they were gone on my way back. I passed the slower runners all the way down the canyon.  I left my son's baseball game a few minutes early to go to the finish to see Melanie, Kim and Jane.  That was fun.