Matt Gets Running

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 9:45 tomor­row morn­ing. This is my first ever race. Not that I’ll be treat­ing it as a race; there’s nobody I want to beat. I’ll be happy just to get around and to enjoy the shared exper­i­ence of run­ning with a whole bunch of other nut­ters, whether they’re the pros who I’ll only see passing me on their way back as I head out towards the Sus­pen­sion Bridge, or the people in gor­illa cos­tume who I might stand a chance of keep­ing up with.

If all goes accord­ing to plan I’ll be using Run­Keeper to track me as I go around, and if the tech­no­logy works then you’ll be able to watch me run on a live map at my pub­lic Run­Keeper page. Just visit the web page dur­ing the race and you’ll see where I am, and be able to watch a little dot crawl slowly around a map for an hour and a quarter. No, I don’t expect many avid view­ers, but hey…

Any­way. I’m run­ner num­ber 9210. I don’t know how long it’ll take me to get through the start, but I should be fin­ished about an hour and a quarter after that. I’m really not sure how long it’ll take me, because I’ve never run 10K on the flat, or run with a bunch of other people before. But I’m sure I’ll be post­ing a post-run update some­time tomor­row after­noon, so I’ll let you know how I get on!