Matt Gets Running

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 tonight’s run. I walked home from work to make sure I was warmed up — that’s a couple of miles, at least, so it did the job. And then I did a quick change and got out there.

And it was fine. My aer­obic fit­ness is def­in­itely more of a lim­it­ing factor than my muscles. But even though I puffed a bit towards the end, it was fine, and I didn’t feel like I was ser­i­ously push­ing any limits.

So, that’s the second run done! And I felt a little looser doing it, plus I’m start­ing to work out all the tiny niggles that will make run­ning just a touch more pleas­ant — where best to keep my keys, how to stop the phone from rat­tling around in the bum bag, and all the other trivia.

Longer-term plans involve find­ing some dif­fer­ent routes (I’ve been told that mapmyrun.com is good for this, but I’ve not tried it yet), and maybe mak­ing up some spe­cific iPod playl­ists, but the Genius is actu­ally work­ing out pretty well so far…

Today’s photo is in the same dir­ec­tion as yesterday’s, but taken from the fly­over on the way back from the towpath.