Matt Gets Running

“…don’t look out you’re going to break your neck.”

The Prim­it­ives’ fab 1988 single, Crash, poured some good advice out into my head­phones as I ran this even­ing. Because it was bloody freezing.

Look, even my WeatherPro iPhone app said it was minus 0ºC. That’s like freez­ing, only even freezinger.¹

Luck­ily, the ice seemed to be con­fined to the begin­ning bit of the run — I guess today’s sun­shine must have melted any­thing that had built up on the Port­way itself. And once I’d warmed up, which took about ten minutes, in my woolly hat and gloves, the run­ning was fine.

I think I’m nearly back to nor­mal, in terms of speed. I’m not sure the Run­Keeper stats are par­tic­u­larly accur­ate today, as the app had to cope with a lot of inter­rup­tions — this is the first time I’ve had a phone call, a text, a Twit­ter men­tion and some email all come in dur­ing the course of a single run — but if it’s to be believed, I did 5K in 35 minutes, which is fine by me.

Any­way. The point of this week was to get the momentum back after the Christ­mas break, and this third run of the week means I’m back in the usual groove. I’m going to try to get out for three runs in the com­ing week, too, to make sure of that. But just in case it gets icier, I’ve also dus­ted off my exer­cise bike. It’ll be dull, but at least I’ll be keep­ing up with the exercise…

1. Jok­ing aside, WeatherPro is an excel­lent app, and I recom­mend it. [↩]