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

5 miles @ 7:11 pace.  My husband came with me on his bike, which was fun.  The kids had a sleepover at their grandparent's home last night.  I should have been able to sleep great, but I didn't.  The stupidest thing I kept thinking about was how rediculous my son's soccer coach is.  I read an e-mail he sent right before bed which said "BE THERE NO LATER THAN 1:15. " (45 min before the game starts) "If the boys are late, they will sit out the first half!"  I get that this is "competition" soccer, but they are 8 years old!  I could go on about the other things that bug me, this was just the latest. 

10 miles with mostly with Josse, Melody and Rebecca.

Yesterday morning I was thinking about how nice it is my quads haven't bothered me in so long. Then I was in and out of the car and up and down sitting and standing all day. Late in the afternoon I all the sudden had a pain in my quad as I got up off the toilet. I pulled a muscle going to the bathroom! It hurt really bad last night. I couldn't even run a few steps after dinner when I tried to kick the soccer ball with my daughter.

So this morning I got out of bed, put on my socks and shoes and ran down the cul-de-sac and back in my pj's at 5:20 a.m. before getting ready to run. I didn't want to get all dressed and drive somewhere to meet people and then not be able to run.

Fortunately it didn't hurt the whole time I ran and doesn't feel any worse now, so I think I'm ok. Some resting and rubbing today and tomorrow and I should be good.

10 miles avg 7:18 pace.  Was going to meet Marie, Rebecca and Josse but it didn't work out.  Marie sent text at 3:30 a.m. saying she wasn't running.  I headed out to meet the others at 5:30 a.m., but they turned off the street we were meeting on right before I got there.  I saw them but didn't realize it was them and kept running thinking they were still coming.  I stopped back home for my pepper spray and headed up the canyon, but it was so dark I turned around and ran down Univ Ave the other way.

5.5 miles avg 7:09 pace.  I slept till 7:00 a.m.  The other's were meeting at 6:00 a.m. and I didn't want to get up that early.  Luckily I ran into Melody and we did three miles together, as she was finishing up her run. 

20 miles with Melanie, Kim and Jane.  We started at Vivian Park and ran 4 miles up South Fork at 7:50 pace.  This was our "warm-up" but it wasn't really easy.  Then we ran 14 miles down Provo Canyon at "marathon pace" 6:43 pace.  We finished it off with a 2 miles "cool down" 7:28 pace.  My legs were tired off and on, but they actually felt the worst when we finished our marathon pace and slowed down for our cool down.  It seemed like I would have felt better to just keep running fast for two more miles.  I'm glad I got in 20 miles today.