Today I ran at the beach. My warm up was 1 mile. Then I did 2x4x15seconds of strides. I did 5 minutes jogging between the sets. Then I did 1 mile warm down. In total, I ran for 30 minutes, all barefooted.
My favourite thing that I did was the strides. It's when you run down the beach towards the ocean at a good pace and then jog back to the start.
At the same time as running, I was concentrating on:
1. Making sure every part of my body was moving forward.
2. I wanted to make sure that my arms were relaxed.
3. That my head stayed still.
I love running at the beach. There were lots of people there playing hurley (an Irish game using sticks that are similar to hockey sticks and a sliotar - that's a small, hard, white ball). Fact: hurley is the fastest game in the world.
On Wednesday, I'm going to my athletics club where we play games and race. It's great fun:)
Slán
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