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

My head cold is back.  4 easy miles @ 7:25 pace

8 "medium" pace miles up/down Provo Canyon. Avg 7:08 pace

I ran the Thanksgiving Day Earn your Turkey 4 mile run.  My splits were fairly consistant: 6:14, 6:13, 6:30, 6:14.  My third mile is slower than the others every year.  I think this stretch has a very slight uphill grade.  I was pleased my time was 24 sec faster than last year, although I was hoping for more like 40 seconds faster.  I got my turkey and my boys love turkey.

My kids also ran their races and seemed to have a good time.  My 3 year old got a ribbon for 5th place.  As she sat in the car holding it on the way to Grandma's house she asked "Did I win?" and the conversation continuted like this, "You got 5th place, so you were one of the winners" "So did I win?" "Well they have 5 winners and you got a ribbon for being the 5th winner," "So did I win?" "Yes Elsa, you won," "Oh."

Ran 4 miles with my 8 year old son on his rollerblades.  We took along a rubber stretchy thing I use for my exercises.  I held onto one end and he held onto the other end so I could pull him a little.  It worked out well although he was tired at the end.  Avg 8:30

Ran 14 miles up/down Provo Canyon.  I slept in and went around 7:45 a.m.  I didn't really feel like running, which is unusual for me.  Once I got out there I enjoyed it though.  There were patches of ice on the trial which were frustrating though.  I stopped / paused my watch, four short times to drink, one long time to stretch and two medium length times to visit with people on the trail that I hadn't seen in a long time.  So I took a lot of breaks and the average isn't as good as it sounds.  Avg 7:21 pace