Matt Gets Running

The Bris­tol 10K is approach­ing. It’s on road signs now, so it must be offi­cial! My plan to do a few runs in this pen­ul­tim­ate train­ing week is going well; I got out for another 5K this even­ing. I also man­aged to get to the other side of the river before the high tide and […]

Just a very quick update tonight. I took last week off after my 15K effort last Sunday, but I got back on the road again tonight. It was a nice easy 5K out along the Port­way. I had inten­ded to go down the towpath on the other side of the river, but I was confounded […]

Like I said in my last update, I fan­cied get­ting out for a nice long run this week­end, and this morn­ing I made good on that. I ran from home, out along the towpath under the Sus­pen­sion Bridge, all the way to the far entrance to Leigh Woods, then up into the forest. I did a […]

Quick update tonight, because I’ve got loads to do. Went out for a simple 5K, and I’m still really appre­ci­at­ing the fact that I can get out in day­light, which opens up the pret­tier river­side routes. This is also hope­fully one of the last rubbish-quality pho­tos of quite a nice view you’ll see, because my […]

“I don’t feel too steady on my feet… ”…I feel hol­low I feel weak” Well, I did a bit. And just as that line in the Stone Roses She Bangs the Drums came around, too. But I had just powered up Bridge Val­ley Road delib­er­ately a bit faster than nor­mal, to see if I could improve […]

I didn’t hit the rainy streets last night, because I was knackered — didn’t sleep well on Tues­day night, for some reason. Still, today was a good altern­at­ive day for run­ning, because it was gor­geously sunny. I took today’s pic­ture on my warm-down after the run, with the sun still just above the hori­zon. Nice. Just […]

Wel­come to the 100th blog post­ing on Matt Gets Run­ning To mark the occa­sion, here’s a video of my (Good) Fri­day run, along the Avon Gorge towpath, up the hill into Leigh Woods, around a little detour—to reverse out of some of the worst of the mud I ran into!—and then back to the Clifton […]

Well, that was a bit muddy. My shoes are soaked. As you can see from the Run­Keeper log, I went through Leigh Woods today. I was going to take a dif­fer­ent route from nor­mal, but I got halfway through it and found the track so muddy that I actu­ally had prob­lems stand­ing up on it, let […]