So - Andy woke me up when my alarm went off (as I had ear plugs in and didn't hear it!) and I got up - not feeling 100% but not as hung over as I could have been! I got ready for my run and we arranged with the hotel that I could come back and get showered afterwards. We went off for the run!
I was a bit nervous to be honest - 10k run - it could possibly get really ot and I might possibly start feeling ill!! We hung around a bit - and then we were off! It was a fast start really - first 1k was just under 6 minutes - which is fast for me - and I managed to stay a fairly quick pace for the first 3k or so! I saw Andy who took a few pics...it was really nice to see him while on the run - and the next time I saw him - Helen, Paul and Eli were there!! Made me feel quite emotional really!! Or - as the woman I was sort of running with at the time said - 'totes emosh' lol. I saw them a couple of times and it really spurred me on!! I felt okay on the run! I never find it easy and some hills were still too much - but I ran my fastest pace - an average of 6.30 per kilometer. I didn't get an official time - it was a Race for Life - cancer research UK. My watch also told me that I had only ran 9.8k but at the pace I ran and from the stats I had - I did it in 1hr 5m. So I was really happy with that!
So - after that and a quick chat with Helen and Paul - we rushed back to the hotel so I could get a shower - and then we headed off to Newquay in cornwall. We booked a hotel for 2 nights - as we sat in the car about to leave lol.
We arrived in about an hour and a half - and got booked in no problems!
The room was really nice - the bathroom tiny - which isn't a problem and the view was pretty cool!!
We got sorted and then went for a walk! Not that my legs were still aching or anything lol. The beach was amazing - never really seen a beach looking like that in the UK before - sunny for a start lol...big, packed and the sea looked awesome!
We continued walking around the coast line - taking in the views and just feeling great!
We then stopped off at a pub and sat and had a couple of drinks - outside watching the people of the beach and the seagulls! We were there quite a while.
We then headed off to another place for a bit where we joined in a pub quiz and bingo hahaha - didn't win either but did discover a new gin - Tanqueray Sevilla (which Andy ordered a bottle of on Amazon). We then decided to head back to the first place for food as it had looked awesome. The place was called Bellushi's....we headed back after this - and crashed - I was still feeling so stuffed....
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