Matt Gets Running

If you’ve been pay­ing atten­tion, you’ll have been won­der­ing where I’ve been for the past week and a bit. Galav­ant­ing, that’s where¹.

Last week­end I nipped over to Clov­elly, in Devon, to see my friend Steve. This week­end I was at my friends Kavey & Pete’s wed­ding anniversary party. In between I took a whistle-stop tour of Devon.

I nearly packed my run­ning gear, but in the end it was just that little bit too much to lug around, plus I knew my chances of run­ning were actu­ally fairly slim.

The week hasn’t been entirely exercise-free, though. I did a fair bit of walk­ing, includ­ing a 10-kilometer hike around Dart­moor, which was lovely, and hope­fully com­bated some of the ice-cream-based indul­gences which inev­it­ably made an appear­ance

Today I’m back at home, so I figured I’d get right back on top of things as soon as pos­sible. I’ve just come back in from Week 9, Run 1. It was hard work, and my stom­ach was clearly a bit fuller than I thought — yesterday’s anniversary party involved quite lot of lovely Indian food and not a little cake — but I took it slow and steady and just plod­ded on through it.

So, that’s my first “offi­cial” half-hour run of the C25K done, and I’m very nearly at the end — just a couple more runs to do!

I’m not going to count myself as done with the C25K, though, until I’ve actu­ally run 5K. This isn’t, after all, the Couch to Four-and-a-bit K plan. At the moment I’m run­ning about 4.25K, so all I need to add is another three quar­ters of a kilo­metre. So — bet­ter fig­ure out exactly which shiny new com­pact cam­era I want fairly quickly, I think!

1. Galav­ant­ing is a small hol­i­day resort in County Gal­way. Okay, I may be mak­ing that up… [↩]