Matt Gets Running

Just nipped out and did run num­ber two of week num­ber two. The same run as last time, only vastly eas­ier on a non-full stom­ach! Luck­ily I didn’t have ham­mer­ing rain to put me off this evening, so get­ting out there was easy. It was rain­ing a lit­tle bit (hey, Bristol’s Har­bour Fes­ti­val starts today, […]

I changed my mind! Some encour­age­ment from the Live­Jour­nal C25K com­mu­nity came at exactly the right time. I still had some energy, it had stopped rain­ing, there was at least half an hour of day­light left… So I went. And I’m just back from my first run of Week 2. Huz­zah! It wasn’t easy, though. The […]

I’m meant to be doing my fourth run this evening. But the rain out­side is way beyond Sunday’s driz­zle, and into the realms of Heavy Weather. I need some wet weather run­ning gear (I’m woe­fully under-prepared for rain, clothes-wise.) I shall if I can buy some this week, even if it’s just some jog­ging bottoms […]

This morn­ing has been a morn­ing of water. I have a lot to do today. After I woke up, had break­fast and had a shower, I looked out of the win­dow. Onto dreary grey driz­zle. Meh. But, look­ing at the weather fore­cast and the rest of my busy sched­ule, I fig­ured that driz­zle might actually […]

I was aching yes­ter­day from my first run. And I was aching today from my first run, too. It wasn’t ter­ri­ble — I cer­tainly had worse in my karate days, as kick­ing at head height def­i­nitely stretches the mus­cles more than run­ning. Plus you tend to get hit, too :) But I was a lit­tle appre­hen­sive about […]

That’s the first run under my belt, then! I got home from work to find the cheap bum bag (“fanny pack”, for you Left­pon­di­ans) that I’d ordered wait­ing on my door­mat, which was handy. I hadn’t realised how dif­fi­cult it is to buy run­ning shorts with pock­ets, and I don’t like the idea of the iPod […]

Today, I start run­ning. Obvi­ously, I’ve run in the past. At some point. But this will be the first time since school that I’ve run for the sake of run­ning, rather than run­ning for a bus, or run­ning as part of some other exer­cise. The clos­est I’ve come in recent years would be the jogging […]