Matt Gets Running

Back in April, I men­tioned that I wanted to lose some weight. At the time, I was 16 stone, 12.5 pounds. That’s  236.5lbs, or about 107 kilos. I pro­cras­tin­ated for a bit, I had a couple of false starts, but then I got on, and stuck to, a restric­tion in my cal­or­ies for a good few […]

Ah, yes, the hot­test day of the year. Just the time to get out into the sun­shine at nearly noon and run 5 kilo­metres wear­ing y-fronts. Oh yes. Although I do have a sneak­ing sus­pi­cion that the three laps of the bloody great field we ran around wasn’t quite 5K, but I don’t sup­pose it […]

I’m still not feel­ing 100%. This morn­ing, though, I was struck by a blind­ing flash of the obvi­ous: if I’m not feel­ing 100%, I don’t have to run 100%! So, fig­ur­ing that build­ing back up momentum is more import­ant than stick­ing to my usual 5K min­imum, I went out for a nice little 3K jog in […]

You may have noticed that I’ve not pos­ted in more than a week, which is a bit unusual for me. Noth­ing to worry about, but I’ve been laid low with some coldy/fluey thing that’s been going around at work. I seem to be recov­er­ing now. Hope­fully I’ll be back out and run­ning soon, prob­ably on Wednesday. […]

Got out early this morn­ing — well, before 9am, any­way, which I thought was pretty good for a Sunday — and trogged up and around the Downs for 8K. Get­ting out early was a good idea for two reas­ons. The main reason was to avoid the mid­day sun that nearly fried me the last time […]

I’m crazy busy this week, so this is going to be a quick post in between me com­ing home from my run and stretch­ing I just got out for 5K, for the first time since last week, and it was okay. I wasn’t really feel­ing like run­ning — I think I might be com­ing down […]

In a fairly rare move for me, I didn’t get out for a run this week­end. Or this even­ing. I’m try­ing to give myself a break about this. This week­end I was out of town vis­it­ing friends, and I’m still play­ing catchup on the thou­sand things I should have done at the week­end if I’d […]

Due to a Flickr meet last night, and get­ting up late this morn­ing, I only just have time for this update: I did 5K last night.