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 […]