I woke up this morning at 7.30...before my alarm went off. I wanted to do the park run today and beat my time. I've only done it twice before and my times were 35:51 the first time and 36:22 the 2nd time. On both occasions there was a long section of really awful mud and on the second occasion the puddles were more like long long rivers! Today was dry and so much better! I was determined to beat my time and I've done a lot of running lately. My time today was 33:22!! So beat it by quite a bit!
I am aiming for less than 30 minutes but that's quite a lot to knock off, so don't expect to do than any time soon!
I was really pleased with my time, although it was a little disheartening to see I was so far down on the list of the results - I came 294th out of 357. This is an incentive to do better!
Hehe...I was obviously happy to finish! Think this is me saying YAY!
I came home and had a lovely soak in the bath...then we eventually got ready and went to Helen and Pauls. Saw their amazing new kitchen, had a few drinkies and went out into Paignton, and to our usual haunt - The Spinning Wheel - AKA The Spinney. They always have a band on and Andy and Paul said tonight's was rubbish - to be honest me and Helen were chatting so much I didn't hear them. We chatted loads - lots about running as we have now both got into it. It is brilliant having somebody to talk to about running - who is about the same standard as me. We spoke about running shoes, running bra's, routes that we do, hill runs...etc. SO boring for anybody not into running - I was worried I would bore Helen, but I really think she is just as enthusiastic as me!
Anyway - we also had a really good laugh too - it wasn't ALL about running!!
So, a good time was had by all! We went home via the kebab shop and I had chips and curry sauce - god it was good!!! Think I went to bed about 2am,,,,thinking...not too sure about running tomorrow....
