Matt Gets Running

Build­ing up momen­tum again after you’ve taken time off is best done as soon as pos­si­ble. Given that, I decided to fol­low through on yesterday’s deci­sion and get out of the door despite the wet weather, and the fact I’m not feel­ing well. My con­ces­sion to ill­ness and the rain was to run only a short […]

So, first it was icy on the pave­ments. Then it was Christ­mas. And then I was ill. As a result, it’s now been eight days since I last went for a run. Plus, with the amount I’ve eaten, I’ve prob­a­bly just about dou­bled my body weight in the last week… Bleurgh. So, is there any good news? […]

This morn­ing, I put on my wooly hat before head­ing out­side, on the grounds that it was –1ºC. Then I got out into the street, turned around, and went back for my sun­glasses. I def­i­nitely needed both, which is a com­bi­na­tion I’ve not found nec­es­sary since the last time I went snow­board­ing… As the rest […]

Wow. That was cold! Accord­ing to my weather wid­get, it was 0ºC out­side when I started this evening’s run. And I can def­i­nitely believe it. I added gloves and a hat to my usual out­fit on the way out. And it wasn’t too bad once I’d warmed up. And at least it wasn’t rain­ing. But […]

Today was a bit crap. It was cold, wet, and I wasn’t in the mood. But I got out and did a desul­tory 5K any­way, which I guess counts for some­thing. The first run after a long run is def­i­nitely hard work. Cer­tainly I’ve not noticed an excep­tion to that rule yet. I left it […]

Def­i­nite rule of run­ning: once you’ve done a dis­tance once, it’s a lot eas­ier, psy­cho­log­i­cally, to do it again. Today I was feel­ing pretty good, and I’d had a decent night’s sleep, and the weather looked okay, so I decided to do 10K again. And here it is on RunKeeper.com. It was actu­ally 10.42km, about the […]

Despite today’s pic­ture, it wasn’t actu­ally a bad 5K. This is just some­thing writ­ten on the Port­way pave­ment that I’ve been mean­ing to take a photo of for months. Today I did sim­ple 5K, with no glam­our and noth­ing to talk about of note. So, bear­ing in mind I’m crazy busy and a bit tired, I’m […]

…well, deep pud­dles, any­way. I want to push my week­day runs out a bit fur­ther, so I fig­ured I’d do 6K this evening. It var­ied between driz­zle and out­right rain, but it was still good. I felt fine, and kept up a nice pace. About the only thing that wasn’t great were my calves/ankles, and […]

Bear­ing in mind all the rain we’ve had recently, I’ve been pretty lucky with the run­ning. It was gor­geous this morn­ing, bril­liant sun­shine and not even that cold. As well as this one of the win­ter trees, there’s a cou­ple on Flickr taken from the same point on the Port­way, one look­ing out of town, and […]

Tonight I realised I was tired of jog­ging with­out pho­tos, so I grabbed my cam­era and a mini-tripod on the way out. I took a nice steady jog, start­ing a lit­tle fur­ther out on the Port­way than nor­mal, and made my “halfway” point a lit­tle fur­ther on, too. Then on the way back, espe­cially toward the […]