Matt Gets Running

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 was far off.

Any­way, yes a dif­fer­ent kind of Sunday run for me today, prob­ably less far than I would nor­mally run of a week­end, but also in much more blaz­ing sun­shine than I’d ever vol­un­tar­ily ven­ture out in. Des­pite the harsh­ness, we got a fairly good turnout, and every­one man­aged it, even the intrepid older gent who came in last to a big cheer.

With the dona­tions from my Just­Giv­ing page (thanks all!) and the money my com­pany will pony up for me enter­ing, I reckon I raised more than £100 for Pro­state UK, which can’t be bad I prob­ably won’t be pes­ter­ing any­one for dona­tions until at least August now, when I’ll be start­ing fun­drais­ing for the half mara­thon. Which I very much hope is on a nice, cool, Septem­ber day, prefer­ably with a very light drizzle…