Matt Gets Running

Today’s jog was a very simple, slow 5K out down along the towpath and back. I almost didn’t go; I’ve had a fairly busy week­end, not enough sleep, and I was pretty tired. But I bought this chocol­ate flap­jack, see, at lunch­time, from Chan­dos Deli in Clifton Vil­lage. And it was meant to be my […]

Just went for a simple 5K along the towpath tonight, nice and easy. Although RunKeeper’s show­ing it as a slow 6K, because I included the warm-up and cool down, and for­got to stop the track­ing when I’d fin­ished the cool down… About the only thing of note — apart from the rather lovely view I spotted […]

Wow. That was quite an intense 7K. Not because it was fast, or any­thing, just because I didn’t get out until about half past eleven, which meant I was run­ning in the mid­day sun. That’s not been a worry so far this year. But on wan­der­ing out­side, it was pretty obvi­ous that we are no longer […]

Just a quick blog today. I got out for a simple 5K out along the towpath. No Run­Keeper log to show for it today, as the GPS just didn’t want to lock. So I ran for about eight­een minutes, then turned around and ran back, on the ground that that would be at least five […]

This month has been pretty slack for me, running-wise. But that’s a fairly con­scious choice. I didn’t want to too much the week before the 10K, and I felt like rest­ing on my laurels a bit after it. Plus I nor­mally take it easy after any long jog, and 10K def­in­itely counts! But today I […]

So, hav­ing checked I’d got everything about three times, I set off this morn­ing to walk down to the start of the Bris­tol 10K. Everything was very civ­il­ised and well-organised. I got a pre­view of what was to come by walk­ing in through what would become the “handouts at the fin­ish” sec­tion, where they were […]

My playl­ist for tomor­row. I won’t get through all of this, because there’s two-and-a-half hours of music there. It’ll be on shuffle. Song Artist Amer­ica The Indel­ic­ates The 32nd Of Decem­ber Baby­shambles Sci­ence Mon­key Swal­lows The Uni­verse Spin­nin’ Speech Debelle Acet­one Ken­ickie Arcady Peter Doherty Albion Baby­shambles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band The Beatles A […]

Des­pite what I said last time, I didn’t get a chance to run last week­end, so I’ve had a full week off. Which feels fine to me. And tomor­row, I run the Bris­tol 10K I’ll be start­ing off in the second of the two groups — i.e. with the slow people, at the back — at […]