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

I couldn't run today because of my shoulder!  It hurts so bad.  My arms were so sore Sunday and even more sore when I woke up Monday.  But Monday afternoon as I got a heavy box of bookkeeping papers down from a shelf in my office I hurt my right one even worse.  I can't even walk normally without pain.  So frustrating.  I'm wearing a sling.  My left one hurts too, but I can at least use it some.  With all the injuries I've had this year I now must add a shoulder problem to the list. 

Last night as I was telling my kids every little thing to do to get their own dinner my husband came home from work.  Everyone was extra glad to see him.  My daughter said to her dad, "I'm glad you didn't do the Spartan.  Then we wouldn't have any parents to do things for us."

Saturday I was able to run again after another whole week off. I met Melanie, Kim and a few other ladies I don’t know as well at Jane’s house. We ran up the Alpine Highway and out almost to the natural water slide and back. My right arm hurt a lot the first few miles, not the front muscle that seemed so injured earlier, but the side of my arm. Melanie rubbed it out and we kept going. A couple of miles later it didn’t feel as bad so that was nice. I made it out 9 miles. On our way down my quad started to hurt. I mile 15.5 I decided I would try to keep a decent pace for another ½ mile then slow down the last 2. Just a few steps later I had a shooting pain through my hamstring. I stopped and stretched and started again, going a lot slower and it felt ok. A mile later I felt the pain again. I stopped again to stretch and decided I would run until I felt the pain again or mile 17, whichever came sooner. At 17 miles I started walking and walked the last mile. My hamstring hurt afterwards. It was fine after the Spartan, but I wasn’t able to stretch much all week as I couldn’t even get up and down off the floor with my arms so hurt. Hopefully it will feel better next week.