Yesterday was my lil Tuna's birthday. She said that for her birthday she wanted to go down to the water and watch a sunrise. I was up at my normal 4:30AM and she got up at 5:30 and we headed down there around 6:30AM to see the sunrise. We walked out the little retaining wall that encloses the harbour (google wollongong, look at the map, you'll know what I mean) and sat on some massive rocks. It was simply gorgeous. Not many folks out, relatively warm and just super peaceful. We sat and waited, watching birds and just pinching each other to make sure this was our reality. It was a cloudy morning so even when the sun was rising it was behind some clouds, but it still peered through and was as beautiful as ever!We took a bunch of pictures of each other and us together out there and just enjoyed it for an hour or so.
We got back home just before 8 and I got my running gear on ASAP. i had 16k to run and just wanted to get it done so we could have the rest of the day together (and you never know when the weather is going to turn on you!). I got out and had an AMAZING run. I ran 4 or so km and then Jupey came out on the bike and found me and rode with me for the rest of it. At the 4km mark I was averaging 4:30/km and feeling pretty good. Having Tunes there made me wanna show off a little to her so I started to pick up the pace a little bit, not really paying attention to the numbers, just running at or near the threshold of what is a comfortable pace, the fastest I felt I could hold "comfortably". That was pretty fast! It felt great the whole way and before I knew it I was at 14km, with an avg pace of 4:10/km! That's my pace for my record half marathon! Cool! 2 more km and I was home, with an overall avg pace of 4:09/km, running the last 10k in a little over 40 minutes!
The rest of the day we just hung out as it was raining a ton out. We did go out for a little bit to Aldi, Wooly's and a nut and bean (bulk barn-ish) place.
Today Julia works and I gotta put in 28k and then do some prep for school. :)
2 Weeks today!
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