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

4 miles with my husband on his bike.  Avg 7:09 pace.  Another long day as my brother-in-law was getting married in Salt Lake.  It was long for me and I'm sure seemed even longer for our kids.  Our kids waited in the "youth room" at the Salt Lake temple while we attended the marriage.  Later my daughter said, "I thought the room in the temple would be really really reverent, but instead it was really loud."  There were lots of  kids there.  Then the pictures took a long time and the kids were getting bored.  We went to the Lion House for the lunch and of course there was a lot more waiting.  We got back to the grandparent's home at about 4:00 p.m. and they had less than 2 hours to play with their cousins before more pictures and a reception.  On the way home I asked the kids what their favorite part was and they all said being in the "youth room" at the temple.  I thought this would have been last on their list.

10 miles avg 7:19 pace.  I woke up feeling like I'm getting sick.  I've eaten too many sweets the last several days and not gotten enough sleep.  Time to fix that!

4 easy miles. 

I took my son to his pediatrician and also made a Dr. apointment for me.  We have ongoing problems with our sinuses, and we both get sick at the same time.  The doctor thinks we have allergies!  (That are causing sinus infections) I spent all day considering this as a possibility and I think he's right.  I went for 6 months all through the winter without problems (thought I was cured), then in March it all started up again. 

I thought about the times when I was sick and not sick.  It's always worse on Saturday's after my long runs (up the canyon around the weeds) and the only time I can remember not feeling like I was struggling with a stuffy/runny nose off and on was when I was on vacation and during the times when we had a lot of rain.  I think I felt so bad this week because Saturday I did my run up South Fork, spent all afternoon on the grass at the park and the evening out at a golf course.  Couldn't breath when I went to bed.  Monday I spent hours at Temple Square around the grass and flowers and the evening at a reception at a green house.  That night I could hardly breath out of my nose again and the next morning I felt sick.  We also open all our windows at night to let the canyon wind cool the house off, which the doctor said is a bad thing to do with allergies.

Now I'm on a nasal spray.  I really hope I can figure out a way to control this because I'm so sick of feeling sick, especially in the summer.  No more opening windows, cut back on running up the canyon, etc.  This really sucks because I love the outdoors.

My husband Brent dropped Melody and I off up South Fork.  We ran 1 mile up to the start of the Provo River 1/2 Marathon start.  There weren't as many people there as last year.  Melody and I ran the race (unregistered).  I ran the first mile way too fast as I hurried up by Maryann Shauerhammer to say hi and tell her I like her hair cut.  Then I slowed down, but when I got out of South Fork my legs were tired.  I was also supper thirsty.  Perhaps it's the decongestants I'm on.  So I stopped and stood there drinking two cups at every water stop.  I treated this more like a long tempo run and my time was 1:27.  I didn't feel near as well as I did doing this same run at about the same pace a few weeks ago with Melanie, so that was discouraging.  After the race I ran a little with Melody and ran home for a total of 17 miles.