Sunset and BBQ's

I have been really good this week and run 3 times!! Out on Sunday for a 22 min run which I found really hard and hilly! I couldn't face a road run on tuesday so nipped out to the gym as soon as Paul got home from work. It was a case of "Hi, please put the kids to bed I'm going to the gym, thanks!" Luckily I had warned him that this was what I intended to do so he was prepared! I ran for 30 mins on the treadmill and felt a sense of achievement. Last night was pretty much a similar scenario of husband getting home from work and then I went out for my run. This time it was a little later at about 7.45pm. I took my running comapnion with me this time as we were going down to the beach.

During the day I had downloaded an app for my iphone called Logyourun which I thought I would try out. Up until now I had been running with my iphone using the ipod and stopwatch to time my runs. However, I am now getting curious as to how far I am running. The distance is now something that I want to persevere with I as I would like to run a 5K in the near future.

So, last night I went to the beach with Misty, our lovely border collie. She has learnt to stay with me during our runs which is fantastic.  This was the view of the sky when I arrived ......very serene.

I ran from the Hotel Continental to the skate park and back. For those of you know don't know Whitstable it is a seafront run which passes many pituresque beach huts on the way. As you can imagine after a very warm day, the beach and beach huts were still busy with people enjoying the end of the day with a BBQ and a glass of wine or two. Lovely. It was whilst I was running that I was imagining our very own beach hut and the amount of time we would spend at the beach if that were real. Dreams...

The run was hard, I am not going to lie about that. I am still trying to find my pace. I find the first 10 minutes of any run really hard with my breathing and then I slowly settle into a pace and my breathing settles down. My new app told me at the end I had run 2.53 miles over 30 mins. I thought that it would have been nearer 3 miles but maybe that is right or maybe not. Doesn't matter at this stage as I know I am on target to run a 5K which is 3.3 miles. x