Shifting Sands

Today:
Where:  Tuncurry beach
Distance:  25.00 km
Time: 2 hrs 20 mins 28 secs
Rate: 5'  37" per km
Weather:  sunny, nice day again, temp 25 degrees, humidity 40%, wind calm, sea temp 23 degrees
Week:  85.3 km,  May:  123.4 km,  Year:  1772.75 km

Last run at Tuncurry before heading home tomorrow. The weather all week has been great, mild/warm under sunny skies except last Monday when a few clouds were about.
I had planned to increase the running distances gradually all week with the intervals on Wednesday the quicker but shorter distance day.
It worked out perfectly with only the high tide time changing whether I ran afternoon or morning.
It was a holiday with no plans at all only changed when some fellow travellers we met at Charters Towers last year contacted us during the week via Facebook. We had lunch with them on Thursday. They live here now, it was wonderful to see them again.
Today, I ran the full length of 9 mile beach. It isn't 9 miles at all from the breakwater to the rocks at the other end. It's just over 12 kms as measured by my Garmin GPS. So allowing for over calculating, it's well short in distance to it's name.
The tide was coming in when I ran this morning, I had to run on soft shifting sand or in the water. The km rate reflects the slower pace, but I was also tiring towards the end. The short swim/splash in the sea at the finish was perfect and so nice. The warm water not as good for the legs as the cool Murrumbidgee at home. I will certainly be back there during next week.
Otherwise, I have had a good week with 98.5 kms covered in 6 days all on the sand, bare feet of course.
We will come back again to stay even for a few days on our way up the coast. I can see why the triathlon was held here for many years.