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

Met Melody and Marie at Provo Canyon in hopes I would be able to run.  I went a mile with them and quickly realized  my ankle was hurting to bad.  I walked back to my car and went home, stopping at Harmon's on the way.  I realized if I got right on my bike I would still run into them up the canyon.  I rode up the canyon from my house and turned around with them on their way down.  I rode by Marie and Melody as they finished up their last little bit.  So I didn't get much of a workout but at least I got to visit some.

I decided I must need to eat more salt.  Last week my legs and feet started cramping on me again.  I'll be stretching and my foot will cramp, or I'll be laying in bed and my butt will cramp.  It's so frustrating.  I got a good vitamin and multi-mineral supplement with potassium and magnesium that I started taking a few weeks ago, but I realized I eat a very low sodium diet.  Last week I purposefully ate some extra salty French fries on Thursday and again on Friday and felt a lot better for a few days.  Then I went back to eating normal and last night I started cramping again.  I really don't eat anything salty and I don't salt anything.  I purposefully cut back on my salt when my blood pressure was a little higher than normal a few times last fall, and also because my sister is having blood pressure issues and it runs in my family. 

My foot hurt me most of the day.  The pain ran along the inside of my sprained ankle foot.  I've actually had this pain before and it was caused by a tight spot on the top outside part of my foot, making my arch fall in more etc.  I dug on the huge lump on the top outside of my foot three times this day and each time it seemed to help with the pain.  I could walk pain free by the end of the day but didn't have much confidence about running the next day.

I met Melody, Dessire, Marie and Rebecca for a run.  I didn't want to get too far from home in case my foot started hurting more.  We ran down Center street, along Canyon Road and up the Canyon a mile then headed back.  The other girls turned around before Melody and I on the canyon stretch so we didn't finish with them I ended up with 8 miles.  My foot started with a dull ache and actually felt better when I finished.  still a little hamstring issue going on though.

4 miles.  My ankle was throbbing by the end of the day yesterday and I had a sharp pain when I got up.  After some rubbing and stretching it felt ok to go 4 miles.  My hamstring still isn't 100% either.

Ran the AF Canyon 1/2 Marathon with Kim and Melanie.  We were not registered and Jane was nice enough to give us a ride to the top.  I was relieved Kim and Melanie are still recovering a little from their marathon and wanted to take it easy and stop for drinks and to stretch.  We walked through the water stops and I stretched every time.  I was happy my ankle felt good.  Thursday it really hurt going down a hill and AF is a lot of downhill.  My left butt started feeling tight around mile 10 which pulled on my hamstring.  I was worried I might have a problem with it later.  13 miles felt long to me, in that my legs felt very tired the last two miles.  I massaged my butt really good at the end as we stood there talking to people.  When I got home I stretched and dug into my hamstring, iced my leg and took 800 m of Ibuprofen every 4 hours the rest of that day.  I took it for my ankle, but think it actually really helped the hamstring to not flair up.  I wish I had started doing that two months ago.  I was so encouraged when I only had a tiny bit of hamstring pain later in the day.