11km Beach Run

Monday 27th June 2011
This morning when I woke up, I was feeling quite nervous that I wouldn't make the 11km run. We did some stretches and then took the bus to Hardwicke Bay to start the 11km beach run, we did some more stretches a couple of minutes before we started. During the run I did not feel cramped and wasn't puffing out a lot because I was walking every 2 minutes to get my energy back in my system to continue this run back to camp. I was trying to not walk every 2 minutes and take over others, but I struggled to do that. I wasn't thinking of this run as an 11km beach run, instead I thought it out like a 5.5km run instead and was not thinking of the finish line, but other things as well. I never knew that I could do this run and finish it within 75:45 minutes which is an hour and 15 minutes and 45 seconds, I could have improved my time by 5-10 minutes which I couldn't do, but tried. I was most of the time running around sand dunes and seaweed and I can't run any faster when I am running on soft sand and loads of seaweed on the shore. When I had finished the run I was so happy to complete my biggest run I've ever done in my life.