Matt Gets Running

I’m still not feel­ing fab, but sleep­ing in very late today seemed to leave me with some energy, so I decided to go spend it on another post-Christmas momentum-building run. It seemed fit­ting for the first day of the year — start as you mean to go on, and all. And it was a lovely day, with a dis­tinct lack of rain, at least.

I’ve noticed a few peo­ple bemoan­ing the lack of per­sonal jet-packs as we enter 2010. I could cer­tainly have used one today. At the last minute, I decided I was feel­ing okay enough to clam­ber up into Clifton instead of stay­ing on the flat.

I just about coped with it. I was a lot slower than nor­mal — the Run­K­eeper stats show my aver­age pace being eight-and-a-half min­utes per kilo­me­tre, which is seri­ously slow even by the stan­dard of my nor­mal uphill-into-Clifton runs. But hey, I fig­ured it was psy­cho­log­i­cally more impor­tant to do 5K rather than to run quickly, and it felt like an either-or choice today.

My run ended up look­ing out over the Clifton Sus­pen­sion Bridge at sun­set, which is today’s picture.

So, that’s my sec­ond run of the week. As long as I get out this week­end, that’s three in a week, and back to my usual rou­tine. All I have to do is keep that up…