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

5 miles avg 7:26.  Ran into an old friend from High School that I haven't seen in years!  We went about a mile together.  She just moved back to Utah.  She was a swimmer in High School, but runs now and was keeping up a pretty good pace. 

Ran 10 miles with 6 x 800 meter intervals with 3 min recovery in the middle.  Interval times, 3:04, 3:04, 3:02, 3:02, 3:02, 3:02.  I was supposed to be at 3 min, but since this is the first time I've done speed work in about a year I didn't want to go too fast and end up sore.  Felt good.

10 miles up/down Provo Canyon avg 7:11 pace.

3.5 miles avg 8:44 pace.  I asked my 5 year old daughter if she wanted to come with me in the stroller.  Then my 8 and 10 year old boys wanted to come on their bike/rollerblades.  We were almost to the drinking fountain up Provo Canyon where we planned to turn around for 4 miles when my 8 year old son on the bike stopped and started dry-heaving.  I put my daughter on his bike, too big for her, and my son in the stroller until we got to the canyon parking lot.  Then they switched back and he rode the rest of the way home. 

22 miles from my house up/down Provo Canyon/South Fork with Melanie B and Julie C.  We started out uphill and into the wind running too fast.  Going up South Fork I wondered if I would be able to make it back home.  At mile 10 with one more uphill mile to go I thought about stopping and waiting for them to go the last mile up and back.  Maybe if I rested for 15 minutes I would be able to make it 10 more miles.  But I kept going and after stretching at the top I felt a lot better on the downhill.  I also got a big drink of water at mile 13 and loaded up on Powerade at mile 15.  After that I had more energy and finished feeling a lot better than I did at mile 10.  I think my up average was 7:26, so my down must have been 6:46.

I went to my 20th high school reunion later in the day.  We had a picnic in the afternoon with our families and a dinner in the evening for the adults.  I can't believe it's been 20 years.  I was so tired when I went to bed, and still the next morning.  I'm usually really good about getting to church 5 or 10 minutes before it starts, but not this Sunday.  My husband was already there and I just kept sleeping after the alarm went off so the kids and I were about 40 minutes late!