Another beautiful day

Another beautiful day in the Pilbara. No wind, cloudless and hot! I did 5km this morning. Makes up for my false start yesterday. I went out yesterday evening for a 3km walk but it was more of a slow stroll because I went with my husband. So it doesn't really count.

I had just started out this morning when I saw a man, clearly drunk, staggering along the path. I was on my warm-up where I walk for 5 minutes. I said "good morning" and went to go around him. He responded by swearing at me. So I jogged to get past him as quickly as possible. He started CHASING ME!! He was swearing and shouting, fairly incoherently. I started sprinting and he sprinted too. He was barefoot, and drunk, so I was never frightened. I knew he was in no condition to last very long, and in the space of about 50m he had fallen over. I kept running as fast as I could to get some distance between us and then I slowed to a walk. The thing is, it upset my warm-up and that put out my whole run! I am NOT a sprinter!! I was puffed for ages!

I don't scare easily and I know how to defend myself, but I would much rather avoid a confrontation in the first place. Still, a bit of excitement for the start of my run.

I had Percy with me, and we were planning on running the same course as Boxing Day. I had the Virtual Partner set and by the time I got to my "starting" point (after my warm-up) I was already 3 minutes in front of the time! But I was puffed, so I elected to do a run/walk along the same route. I kept in front of the time the whole way round, but I was run/walking. I ended up finishing about 5 seconds quicker than when I last ran the course - so Percy gave me a little beep and told me I won.

I'm not sure what the better training is - to run a route without stopping, or to do it in the same time but as a run/walk.