Matt Gets Running

…that’s me.

Remem­ber­ing how rub­bish I felt on my first run after doing 8K, I figured I’d best be care­ful for my first run after 10K.

This time I left three clear days after my long run before get­ting back out on the road. It seems to have had the right effect. The simple 5K I just did wasn’t bril­liant, but it wasn’t ter­rible. And I came in at a nor­mal pace, com­fort­ably under 35 minutes.

So, I think that’ll be the plan in future — after a big push on in dis­tance, give myself a few days of recov­ery time before run­ning again. Seems to work.

I didn’t see any­thing par­tic­u­larly thrill­ing on the Port­way, so tonight’s pic­ture isn’t from my run, it’s from my walk home. I figured I might as well get into the Christ­mas spirit; this was my first run of Decem­ber, after all!