Yay, a birthday run! I’m 27 today, and rather tired now. Today’s run entailed another early lonely start, but all went well. More self-motivation! I’ll be a guru in no time at this rate.

The run was pretty much the same as Monday’s but easier on the lungs. Legs were ok but ache now. The step up from week 2’s runs to week 3’s had looked to me to be a rather large jump and I was thinking I might need to repeat week 2 before making the transition, but the two runs this week have both been easier than I expected. The jump to week 4 is another big one, but now I’m looking forward to it rather than being worried about it.

I saw a fox this morning. Very exciting stuff. Unfortunately, I had no camera so can’t share with you. In future, I may see if taking a camera is an option. I don’t really want to have carry it by hand, and a pocket is out of the question - would be too annoying. I’ll see if I can work something out though. I’d also like to be able to take keys without them being annoying in my pocket - I’m sure there are things you can buy to help with this.

I get 2 days off now - running with my previous running partner on Saturday. We decided that in order to continue to help motivate each other we would run together once a week. It should be obvious if one of us hasn’t been running the previous two days in the plan, so should keep us both on the straight and narrow.