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

5 miles with Melody avg 7:22 pace, then ice in river.

12 miles up/down Provo Canyon avg 7:00 pace.  School started last week, but this was the first day of kindergarten and thus the first day I sent all my kids out the door to the bus stop.  I didn't quite know how to feel about it.  I guess I'm having a hard time realizig the "little kid" stage of over.  So I drowned my mixed emotions in a 12 mile run. 

I really enjoyed the first 5 miles then I felt like I needed to pee but when I stopped at mile 6 nothing came out, and I still felt like I needed to pee.  Then the realization "I must have a UTI."  Started running the 6 miles home and felt more and more miserable every mile.  With two miles to go I stopped in the bushes again and the little bit that came out looked like straight blood.  In a lot of pain at this point.  I drank until my stomach was full ( probably two water bottles worth) and ran the rest of the way home.  By the time I went to the doctor my pee actually looked like pee.  Still, the nurse said, "There was a lot of blood in it," and I thought "that's nothing compared to what was coming out of me two hours ago."

10 miles with Marie avg 7:06 pace.  I don't know why we ran so fast.  We were both talking and breathing hard the whole way.  I was exhausted.  Twice we talked about slowing down and probably slowed about 15 sec/mile for a 1/2 mile or so.  It was fun to visit with her again.  We haven't run together in a while.

3 easy miles avg 7:28 pace.  The doctor called later in the day to say I do not have an infection and I need to come in next week to give another urine sample to test my kidneys.  Now I'm  having anxiety of it.

23 miles avg 7:02 pace.  My good husband drove me, Melanie and Julie C up Provo Canyon into Wallsburg at 5:00 a.m. so we could run down the canyon and not have to go back up to get a car afterwards.  The pace felt really good as this was a downhill run from Wallsburg all the way out of the canyon.  My body felt good, not breathing too hard and my legs weren't very tired either.  I did feel incredibly uncomfortable when it came to feeling like I needed to pee all the time.  I drank a lot so as not to get dehydrated because I didn't want to start peeing blood again.  But I would pee and then still feel like I needed to pee!  I had this sensation once before and the doctor gave me a yeast infection pill.  Then I felt better, so maybe I'll use the refill on that and see if it helps.  That wouldn't explain the blood in the urine on Tuesday though.  Kidney stones maybe.  All I know is I better get this figured out before the marathon because I don't want to feel uncomfortable in such a stupid way trying to run my race.