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I can't believe I've been running for this long already! And the voice over of the lovely Get Running app told me that I've basically been running 3 times as long as I was two weeks ago! Can you imagine?! I'm proud! :-)

And it was a fantastic run today! I thought it was going to be miserable, because I woke up feeling like I had been hit by a truck. I was all bloated and had a belly ache from the monthly female curse, so I thought I was perhaps going to walk around a bit, but run...? Nah.

So before I went, I thought about what my favourite place to run would be. The answer: the woods. Only they are further away than the 5 minute warm up. I decided not to care about that and just pause the warm up and start the last minute the moment I arrived in the woods. I did, and it was brilliant. I think the slightly longer warm up did me a world of good. I had no (read: NO) muscles aches. I felt like I could go on forever.

Tobi ran off leash and had soooooo much fun! As did I! It was brilliant! I was smiling so much I forgot I was running! I have not paid any attention to posture or breathing or whatever. It was just go-go-go with a big smile on my face! A couple of times I realised I was out of breath and wanted to stop running, but then I realised again that I was trying to follow a program and wasn't just out there having brilliant fun hahah So I kept going. It was great. The weather was lovely and the woods are my favourite spot in the entire world. Tobi was having the time of his life. It was great.

We also saw a squirrel running up a tree with his mouth full of pine cone! LOL Tobi nearly caught it! And we saw loads of other dogs and Tobi was friendly with all of them (and vice versa), and we saw some Shetland ponies that scared Tobi a lot hahaha. So - much - fun!
I think we'll run there again on friday. Or else on saturday if I decide to do an early run on thursday.

Wheeeeeeee this is what I started running for! Brilliant! :-D