Matt Gets Running

Actu­ally, to be fair, the tide wasn’t high. My run took me along the Port­way again tonight, next to the river, and it was very much low tide, with the steep, muddy banks of the Avon glisten­ing on my port side.

But I was listen­ing to Blondie’s Greatest Hits, so the song was in my mind

I’m sur­prised how blasé I’m get­ting about run­ning now. When I got home, I quickly got my stuff together and got out of the door, con­scious of the dwind­ling light, and just decided to do 5K.

So, a nice simple run, on the flat, tonight. It was fine over­all, there was a good bit at the end. I was just com­ing around the corner on the way back, where the full width of the Sus­pen­sion Bridge expands into view across the Avon Gorge, and the half-hour beep went off. So, I knew that if I could fin­ish my 5km in less than six minutes, I’d have beaten my pre­vi­ous time.

So, I picked up my pace, just as Denis burst into my ear­buds, and kept going fast for the last five minutes. In the end, I shaved a minute off my pre­vi­ous time, com­ing in at just a tad over 35 minutes. Here’s the full details where you can see my little tail-end burst of speed on the graph.

So, it’s all good. Think I’ll head up to the Downs again for the weekend’s jog­ging, so I can go when it’s nice and light…