Jumping some hurdles and making plans on the sunny Island

Hi Peeps,

All is great here in Fuerteventura. I'm not trying to rub it in but it really is good to be in the sun for a while. Sean arrived a few days ago and it's now officially a complete male zone I'm living in. It's quite nice to be honest. I'm the only girl so I have my own room and when I'm bored of the lads being lads I just wander in here. For example right now they are all parked on the couch watching some complete lads DVD and I've been in my room reading celebrity gossip online. In fairness they are great company 99% of the time and are awesome at just sitting around having completely random conversations.

Anyway onto some running talk as this blog is kinda a running blog. Today was hurdles out of blocks which I love to do. We arrived at the track and the room to the hurdles was locked. My initial feeling towards this was pure irritation but then low and behold someone found a key. Off I went to do my session. Before hurdles I did some sprinting with Ian, this was loads of fun because we are racing each other a bit. I'm going to confess that Iano always beats me (He is way faster!) but this little voice in my head tells me everytime I toe the line against him that I have a chance so I always try really hard. Today yet again I did not beat him but I was sprinting well.

The hurdles were done seperately to work on technique. The best way to describe where I'm at right now is like so: I need to go one step forward but in order to do this I have to go four steps back, work hard and be patient. Today was literally working on basics and being very patient. It was also my first day out of blocks since last September.

After training we went for a bit of a spin in the car. My boyfriend comes here to train and had told me about a place with lovely beaches so off we all went in the car. We ended up in a nice little coffee shop right on the beach.

This evening we had a few minutes where we sat down and looked at video footage from training. It's good to look at it because something that feels one way when I run is actually often very different when I look on the camera. It was good to have Sean point things out and then I can go work on that tomorrow.

Out here I've had a chance to sit down and chat through races with Sean for the indoor season. We have come up with a provisional plan for meets so now we just need to see what happens in the next few weeks. This plan was etched out in the loveliest little bakery in this town, surely coffee and cake is the best way to speed???!!!!!!

Time for me to get some zzzzzzz's before tomorrow.

Bye for now,

DOR