Matt Gets Running

I’ve only jogged around the har­bour once before, dur­ing week 7 of the C25K. Tonight I did it again, and did it a bit quicker, too.

So, all good. I’d got a bit bored with run­ning along the Port­way all the time, so although the round-the-harbour run feels quite short for me now (it’s only a bit over 4K) I figured I’d do it just to make a change.

And it was a lot more inter­est­ing. I saw other jog­gers, a gym (although with no-one on the tread­mill, which would have been appro­pri­ate), ran­dom drink­ers around Pero’s bridge, and a row­ing club.

Also, it was a good job I was jog­ging, because there were a couple of guys I passed who were smoking skunk so strong that I prob­ably would have passed out if I’d gone past too slowly.

At some point, I’ll take it a bit stead­ier and go twice around the har­bour. Maybe one week­end next month. I’d prefer to do that in day­light. In the mean­time, here’s a pic from the end of tonight’s run. You can just see the ghostly motion-blur from a couple of other run­ners who passed when I was tak­ing the pic­ture. Click through to see it big­ger on Flickr.