Matt Gets Running

As you know, I’ve been hav­ing prob­lems with my hip — well, in fact my hip and the top bit of my left-hand gluteal mus­cle, or “upper arse”, as I believe it’s tech­ni­cally known. I reckon it may be down to shoes, so yes­ter­day I went shop­ping. In Moti, the advice was basi­cally, “well, if […]

That was really hard work. All I did was my nor­mal week­day 5K, but I just felt com­pletely ener­gy­less. Hmph. And my hip’s aching again. I’m start­ing to won­der if I might need to replace my run­ning shoes. I bought them pretty much exactly six months ago, so they must have trav­elled a fair distance. […]

I went to a cock­tail party last night. Even though I don’t drink, it meant I was up until about 2am, so I didn’t drag myself out for a jog until about half past one today. Bit of a con­trast from last week’s 7am enthu­si­asm! Any­way, to get myself going, I down­loaded Lady Gaga’s album […]

I’m not entirely con­vinced that a mere 5K tonight bal­ances out yesterday’s pan­cakes. And it’s pos­si­ble that yesterday’s stodge was what made tonight’s run feel like such hard, slow work. Still, this is the clos­est I’ve come to run­ning in actual day­light on a week­day for a long time. It won’t be long before I’m not […]

I don’t exer­cise in the morn­ing. I’m just not a morn­ing per­son. Vir­tu­ally all my run­ning is done in the evening, or, at the very ear­li­est, lunchtime, at the week­ends. So. A bit odd, then, that this morn­ing I woke up just before the alarm clock did that quiet lit­tle *clonk* it does when the […]

Yup, went out and did another 10K today. Wasn’t entirely sure I was going to — if I’d not felt good I’d have cut it short — but it was fine. Nice and slow, up Bridge Val­ley Road, around the edge of Clifton Down to the Water Tower, a loop around Dur­d­ham Down, then back […]

I think it’s quite for­tu­itous that this is the week I’ve been read­ing the chap­ter on avoid­ing injuries in John Bingham’s No Need for Speed. One of the things he talks about is how to pay atten­tion to your body; how to lis­ten to those early, gen­tle aches and pains that mean you should back […]