Pathfinding and animation

I'm having these challenges implementing pathfinding in my game.

The first challenge is on choosing the point i want my player to move to, it rotates sides ways where as i just want it to move in that direction with the front, or turn its fron to that direction and move towards it, however i cant get that done.

Also, i want to start the run animation only when it is about to move and keep it standing alone when not moving

Link below

pathfinding test

onzephyr thanks a lot, that does the drill, jusy needed to change the angle from common in d properties panel to ensure my player starts off facing front. Thanks