Scenic route

I had to drop the car off to get the window fixed this morning, so I thought I'd jog home. I decided to take the scenic route and see if I could find the river. All up 7km but it's still taking me an hour. Sigh. Percy tells me I was stopped for 96m. Not sure how that works. At least he is registering more of my running as jogging now, instead of walking. I still haven't managed to register any actual "running" but that will come. I had a few walk breaks today, too. It's weird - I feel better about my running, but I'm running less distance than I was in Karratha. Lots and lots of lovely houses - mansions some of them. At the point where I eventually found the river is a suburb called Peppermint Grove - VERY swank! Lots of BMW's and Porche's. People with far too much money.




I've filled in my application to become a member of the Western Australia Marathon Club, which is for people of all abilities and many members never run a marathon!! The club was formed years ago and they never got around to changing the name even though it's more just running, than marathons. Anyway, I'm going to mail in my membership. Hubby suggested to take out a "family" membership so that he could come along to events and walk them!!! I think he might finally be starting to accept that this running interest of mine is not going away!

There is a fun run in my neighbourhood on February 11!!! It will be my first "race"! There is a 10km and a 4km. I'm going for the 4km because I am absolutely paranoid they will pack up and go home before I finish the 10km. I've yet to ring the organiser, but I'm pretty excited! There seems to be scheduled runs all around the place on a fairly regular basis. Could also be a great way of getting to know Perth.