Matt Gets Running

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 The Fame Mon­ster — cur­rently on Amazon UK at the bar­gain price of £3 — and got out into the spring sunshine.

As I was tired and a bit head­achey — must have been the guava juice — I kept it slow and steady and didn’t go too far. It felt pretty good, though, once I’d got up Bridge Val­ley Road and got going, and I decided to do a bit more than I’d planned, loop­ing around Durd­ham Down to fin­ish at just a smidge over 7km.

This makes up a bit for not run­ning on Fri­day, I sup­pose. Look­ing at my stats over the last six months, Fri­day is the day of the week on which I tend to run least, com­ing in just below Monday. I think I should there­fore be a bit more real­istic about plan­ning to run on Fri­days, and maybe try head­ing out on Tues­day and Thursday if I want to go out twice dur­ing the week…

Any­way. Fin­ished my 7K, went and got some lunch from Boston Tea Party, who are always lovely and friendly and do great cof­fee, and then wandered home along Royal York Cres­cent, which is today’s pic­ture. This came straight from the iPhone, put together in cam­era from three shots, using Debacle Software’s Pano App.