Matt Gets Running

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 of the UK gets blan­keted with lovely snow, Bris­tol was being its usual recal­ci­trant self by hav­ing such a lovely clear day that if there were leaves on the trees, you’d have thought it was July. Until your nadgers dropped to the ground with a clang, any­way. I even jogged past a highly-optimistic ice cream van.

Because I did 10K last week­end, I fig­ured I’d just do a sim­ple, short run in the sun today, so I did my short­est Downs-based run, a smidge over 5K, and then went and got an amaretto latte from Cof­fee #1. Nice and simple.

This week, I’m going to do at least one run before Christ­mas, and I might make it a har­bour­side run, just to mix things up a bit. Until then, enjoy the snow, if you’ve got it!