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Today we woke up a little later than usual for a Saturday, around 6:45 a.m., and kind of lingered over our morning coffee before getting out for our morning run. I don't mind getting a bit of a later start when the weather is like it is today though. It is a bright and sunny day here in Wellington, which is a nice change from what we've had during the summer. Our summer was pretty much a string of crappy, rainy, windy days that were occasionally interrupted with a sunny period here and there. Not that I'm complaining mind you...oh wait, as I read the last sentence, it appears that I am complaining. Oh well.  The autumn weather has been pretty nice so far, so we're hoping that we can keep up the sunny streak for a while.

Like last week's run the waterfront was abuzz with activity (hmmmm...abuzz is actually a word! go figure.). There is some sort of waka (Maori canoes) rowing competition going on, so there were tonnes of people and food carts, etc. on the waterfront. So instead of our regular run of to the ambiguous there and back again, we simply extended our there point to the wind needle at Evans Bay, and then walked back as we didn't want to have to circumnavigate our running around all the crowds.

So our run today turned out to be a bit shorter than we had planned, only around 9 KM rather than the 10 KM we were hoping for. We did get some more exercise on the way back as we did a few fartleks up in the hills. I think we're really starting to notice the benefits of the regular scheduled runs as we both felt pretty strong throughout the whole run.