Matt Gets Running

Yes­ter­day, all else being equal, would have been a run day for me. Cer­tainly Get Run­ning sug­ges­ted it would be.

But, I think one of the many help­ful ways to stick to an exer­cise plan is to look ahead and be real­istic about when you just can’t fit things in. And yes­ter­day was one of those days. It star­ted with a 4:45am alarm to get me up and ready to get out of the front door by 5:20, so I could walk up to the Bal­loon Fiesta dawn launch and get some pictures.

Then I had a full day at work, a walk home and back again, and then an 11pm fin­ish after tak­ing more pho­to­graphs for a work awards evening.

So, no run­ning for me, and I knew in advance that the day would be like that, so I’d planned not to run and feel no guilt Espe­cially as I walked ten miles, which is quite a lot of exer­cise, even if it didn’t involve running!

Unfor­tu­nately, today is more of an issue. I didn’t sleep well last night (odd, after a twenty-hour day with ten miles of walk­ing. And annoy­ing. Grr!) and I feel crap today. I have a head­ache, and vir­tu­ally no energy.

So, I don’t know whether I’ll struggle out or not. My cur­rent plan is to try to take a nap this even­ing, at around fiveish, hav­ing laid out my run­ning gear ready to go. Then see if I can bounce up and out for a quick half-hour run afterwards.

Until then, though, I think I’ll mostly be pot­ter­ing about the house, doing not much more than vague tidying-up, listen­ing to a few com­edy pod­casts, and mak­ing sure I drink plenty of water. Well, posh water; my favour­ite pick-me-up cold drink, Purdey’s, was on sale in Hol­land and Bar­rett, so I’ve just indulged