Matt Gets Running

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 one look­ing back toward the sus­pen­sion bridge.

After last weekend’s 10K extreme, I stuck to a sim­ple five-and-a-bit K, aver­ag­ing a nice 7-and-a-half min­utes per kilo­me­tre, includ­ing the slow strug­gle up Bridge Val­ley Road.

I went into Cof­fee #1 in Clifton Vil­lage for my now-traditional vanilla latte. But they apol­o­gised before I’d even said “hi”, as they were out of vanilla syrup. And they gave me amaretto for free instead, which was lovely of them.

And that was my morn­ing jog.