Happy Thursday!
This past weekend saw my birthday, tea with friends, the usual training, running, of course the zoo and the beach. Yes, beach season has begun and that makes me one happy girl! 
Last Friday I celebrated my birthday with my usual birthday wish, sunny skies, the beach and all day in shorts. The morning started off with opening presents and cards (always more cards than presents as you get older!) before a beach run with a light breeze that got me excited to be heading there later on. Except the weather had other ideas for the afternoon. The sun stayed, the wind picked up to almost sandstorm (okay slight exaggeration) speeds whipping sand like needles. I stuck it out as it was my birthday and I wanted to spend time at the beach. In reality we should have just said no, but hey. The amount of sand that ended up in my bag, shorts hem, plastered on my ears, face, arms, legs was unbelievable!
And of course I made the zoo! That was also a birthday wish! 
Saturdays morning, the usual, chores, Tone It Up workouts. I’ve completed nearly all their workouts from their Beach Babe 5. I like their new fitness direction and all but 2 I found little slow will be repeated for sure! I do my own workouts during the week and theirs on a Saturday incorporating quite a few of their moves into my own. In the afternoon I met up with a friend for tea/coffee. We’ve been meaning to for weeks, but one of us has always ended up cancelling. It was great catching up to speed and having a girlie chat. I don’t have many friends so I value my girlie chats when we meet up!
The best mint tea in the city from La Esquina
Sunday took me ages to get out to run. Thursday evening I got hit with allergies that came out of nowhere and didn’t disappear until about Tuesday. Sneezes, blocked nose that intermitted with a runny one, sore throat with Sunday being one of the worse days. What finally got me out for an afternoon run was the feeling of being unproductive, lazy and I wasted the morning in self pity! I knew it wouldn’t be the greatest run, but it wasn’t as bad as I thought. I reduced the distance by 2km, walked when I needed to and my allergies were okay until I got back albeit in a better headspace. Monkey bars, I only did 2 sets instead of 4 and through Badalona port I’m pretty sure these were baby sharks swimming in all the rubbish (I’ve never seen the water so logged with litter). 
Plans to get out the city were abandoned as P wasn’t feeling too great either. Earlier in the week he rode his motorbike back to the UK for it’s MOT and his neck was playing up so there was only one place to go, la playa! We got there late afternoon to perfect beach weather, no wind and clear blue skies. The rest of the evening was spend trying to keep awake blogging with heavy eyes winning. I’m slowly winning the fight against night naps were I get in and crash. I’m trying additional vitamin B12 supplements in addition to what’s in my multi vitamin to see how I go! 
How do you celebrate birthdays? All out big parties or low key celebrations? Have a great rest of the week!