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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

Back to school today:(  I am very tired and I have lots of homework. I have to write a story about being stuck on an Ireland:(

My next run day is Wednesday when I'll be going to athletics.

It's dad's birthday today:) He's 48. That's very old. He says that he feels like a 28 year old. Yeah, right.

I went to school today and I'm really tired. Luckily I didn't get too much homework tonight:) I'm looking forward to athletics tomorrow night.

Slán

I went to athletics today and we did lots of running drills. We were also learning about starting a race, to be in the right position. The lady said that I was very good at jumping over hurdles but I hate doing them. I had to demonstrate how to do the hurdle drills to all the girls and then all the boys. Embarrassing.

slán

Today I ran three and a half miles of cross country with my dad. The grass was all muddy and wet. When I finished I was covered in muck. About two miles into my run a black dog jumped on me and pulled my pants down to my knees. Embarrassing. The dog was called Magic. I know this because the lady who was walking him was shouting at him to get down.

Through the run we were jumping over walls and fences. We ran along a narrow bank next to the river and at one point I was looking out at the mountains and I fell. It was very sore but I carried on.

At the end of the run I had to run up a big hill. I sprinted away from dad. He couldn't keep up with me. He said it was because of his sore bum. Likely story.

Slán