Matt Gets Running

I was going to get out mid-week this week and do a little run, but it rained for pretty much five days solid, and espe­cially heav­ily on Wed­nes­day, which was oth­er­wise my best run­ning option. Luck­ily the weather seems to have cleared up a bit for the Bank Hol­i­day week­end, so I nipped out to […]

Just back from a jog, for the first time since the Wed­nes­day before last. Giv­ing my hip a bit of a rest seems to have helped. Today I ran pretty much all the way around the entire green bit on the map — must make sure I include that last little tri­angle next time, just […]

Cyc­ling up Bridge Val­ley Road, to be pre­cise. Steep. Although it’s clearly not all the same muscles that get used by cyc­ling and run­ning, at least the aer­obic fit­ness from run­ning is trans­fer­able. I could never have cycled up Bridge Val­ley Road this time last year. Today, on a nearly 9K-cycle ride that took me up […]

My left hip’s been play­ing up a bit recently. It’s been quite achey the last couple of days, pos­sibly because of the amount of walk­ing I’ve done, head­ing to Ashton Court and back for vari­ous bits of the Bal­loon Fiesta. So, I fig­ure I need a bit of a time-out, espe­cially as I don’t want […]

Tonight’s run was a very inter­rup­ted, stop-start affair. But for good reason. Tomor­row sees the start of the Bris­tol Inter­na­tional Bal­loon Fiesta, held at the Ashton Court Estate, not a mil­lion miles from my usual towpath route. Not only that, but today someone men­tioned the new Fest­ival Way cycle route, the first phase of which […]

My employer has just agreed to match any dona­tions I get from Bris­tol Half Mara­thon spon­sor­ship, up to £250. So any­thing you can donate at my Just­Giv­ing Page counts double! All dona­tions, big or small, grate­fully received Thanks!

I was think­ing of head­ing out for quite a long run this week­end, but it didn’t really work out like that. I’ve taken on some sud­den spare-time work, and that’s eaten a lot of my week­end time. Still, I did man­age to get out for 7K out along the towpath, up through Leigh Woods, and […]

Bleh. That was one of those runs where I just knew I didn’t want to be run­ning as soon as I star­ted. It didn’t get much bet­ter, either, as I struggled fairly slowly through 5K. Still, at least I did struggle through. Some­times just get­ting through it is enough. I think it’s because I’m tired. […]

So, I reckon it’s about five weeks until the Bris­tol Half Mara­thon. *Gulp*. So, please help motiv­ate me to keep on run­ning, no mat­ter what the weather (and in the UK on the 5th Septem­ber, let’s face it, it could be any­thing from a heat­wave to a hail­storm) by spon­sor­ing me to run for my […]

I’ve just been in the Lake Dis­trict for a week. I took my run­ning gear, but didn’t actu­ally get around to any run­ning. Such is the way of hol­i­days! Just been out for my nor­mal Sunday out­ing, though, a simple 7-ishK around the Downs. From here on in, I guess I’m train­ing for the Bristol […]