Matt Gets Running

Today was never going to be a great run. The end of a long week, and a bor­ing, slightly frus­trat­ing day at the end of the long week. Still, I got out there. Today I tried an exper­i­ment, run­ning to a spoken-word pod­cast instead of music. Tonight I ran to an episode of Pseudo­pod, the horror […]

I was a bit tired after a long day at work, so I kept to a sim­ple, flat route and just did 5K tonight. It was nice, it was easy, the map and stats are here. I think my “easy” pace must be get­ting a bit faster, as I did the 5K in 34 minutes […]

Just a quickie for those who were inter­ested in my thoughts on my shiny new Lumix DMC-FP8 — I’ve posted the ini­tial review over on my more ran­dom blog.

Fan­tas­tic run today. I got an extra hour in bed because of the end of British Sum­mer Time, which was a good start. Then I headed out to jog up Bridge Val­ley Road and around the Downs. I kept to a nice, steady pace — as you can see from the Run­K­eeper map/log/stats — and did […]

Today I decided to take it easy. I’ve been push­ing myself a bit recently, going up steep hills, putting an extra kilo­me­tre on a run, going a bit faster. I fig­ured I deserved a break. So, rather than take a night off, I fig­ured I’d just go back to the very end of the C25K and […]

Lit­er­ally a quickie. I don’t nor­mally run two days in a row, but I’ve got a deep tis­sue mas­sage booked tomor­row to try to sort my back out, and I know it’s not easy to run for a day or so after that. So to min­imise the gap, I fig­ured I’d go out tonight. I just […]

I did some­thing unusual today: got out first thing in the morn­ing for a run. I man­aged it — just a stan­dard 5K along my old tow­path route — but I wasn’t really feel­ing the love. I don’t know whether that’s because I’m not used to jog­ging at 9am, or whether it’s just because I was […]

Tonight I avoided hills, and went out on a nice flat route, to bump up my dis­tance a bit, and see if I could do 6K rather than 5K. I’m start­ing to under­stand the phrase “to hit your stride”. The first third of tonight’s jog was quite ploddy, and I wasn’t enjoy­ing it much. Then, fairly […]

Just a quick update today. This evening was very much like the last run — up Bridge Val­ley Road, along Ladies Mile to take me to the far side of the Downs, where the water tower is, then the final bit of the loop back to Clifton Vil­lage. Where I stopped off in a chip […]

I just nipped out for a cof­fee in Clifton Vil­lage. But I went the long way round, as you can see here :) This run includes a 5-minute walk­ing warm-up at the start. So, just did a shade over 5km in about 40 min­utes, includ­ing Bridge Val­ley Road. This pic­ture gives an idea of what that […]