Matt Gets Running

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 been home. So I think I should prob­ably cut myself some slack. Some­times, you just have to accept that you have to skip some things in order to do oth­ers, and you can’t always play catchup.

One thing I can think about at moments like this is how far I’ve already run. Last time I looked at my Run­Keeper pro­file I had a bit of a sur­prise: since I star­ted using Run­Keeper, back in Septem­ber, I’ve run 506.72 kilo­metres. That’s more than 300 miles. And, appar­ently, more than 56,000 cal­or­ies. Pretty cool.

Plus, I’ve got one guar­an­teed week­end run com­ing up in the shape of Pants in the Park, a 5K run for Pro­state UK, on 27th June. I’ve been to a couple before, but only as offi­cial pho­to­grapher, not actu­ally to run. This time I’m run­ning it instead My race num­ber should be nice and easy to remem­ber, too, as you can see from the pic As my friend Kavey said, “Aww! Three little ducks…”

So, I think I’m just going to accept the fact that I can’t do everything at once, and resolve to get out for my nor­mal mid­week run tomor­row or Thursday — prob­ably depend­ing on when there’s a gap in this week’s rain!

Then, though, I must start delib­er­ately set­ting aside some time for some longer week­end runs, because I want to head up towards half-marathon dis­tances again. I’ve only got until Septem­ber 5th…