Matt Gets Running

Today’s jog took me out along the Port­way, mostly because the weather has been so utterly crazy in Bris­tol today that I figured I’d stick to a route where there were likely no puddles and I was fairly unlikely to be struck by light­ning. We had the most enorm­ous thun­der­clap I’ve heard in my life […]

I’m going to try to get out twice on week­days this week, because it’s been ages since I’ve done that. I seem to have degen­er­ated into a one-midweek, once-at-the-weekend pat­tern, mostly since the Bris­tol 10K. I think I need to start build­ing the aver­age miles up a bit again, and get out when I can. Today’s […]

My feet seem to be a bit achey after run­ning recently. It sud­denly occurred to me that, even though it only seems like a few weeks ago that I bought a new pair of shoes, it might actu­ally have been rather longer. And that’s where a blog comes in handy. I first bought proper running […]

Well, I’ve been a bit rub­bish this week. No mid-week run. Mostly that was because I was busy doing strange things like film­ing advice on how to take pho­tos of light­ning with a BBC weather­man. That, and the ser­i­ous weather we have in fact had this week, albeit sadly lack­ing the light­ning, meant I didn’t […]

It was, again, really very sunny and warm today. I didn’t get up early enough to avoid it, so instead of head­ing for the Downs like usual, I went for a little jog around Leigh Woods, which has a lot more shade, instead. I didn’t take it too ser­i­ously, stop­ping off in a few different […]

Back to the A4 Port­way for a nice simple 5K this even­ing. It was warm and close, and the wide open feel of the road felt like a bet­ter anti­dote than the pleas­ant, yet sometimes-claustrophobic towpath. Just a token effort, really, my first since Thursday’s 21km epic, and I took it slowly. No prob­lems, though. […]

I had a day off work. It looked like a nice morn­ing for a little jog. So, I went out for a little jog. Which turned into a longer jog. Which turned into a bit of an epic. I did set out with the idea of going for a longish run. I set off with […]