Matt Gets Running

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 for com­plete­ness’ sake — for a total of 8.88km.

While bits of me still ache a little, I’m not feel­ing as bad as I felt last week­end. Cyc­ling is clearly a good enough “rest” for when I’ve over­done the jog­ging or walk­ing, which is good to know.

So, two weeks to go to the half mara­thon, and I can def­in­itely run almost halfway I think, assum­ing the weather is neither blaz­ing hot sun­shine or a com­plete down­pour, that I should prob­ably be able to get through 21K the Sunday after next, if I take it steady.

Which is a good oppor­tun­ity to plug my Just­Giv­ing page again, where the dona­tions to Can­cer Research cur­rently stand at £100, thanks to you, dear reader, and some of the lovely people on Twitter.

I think I can raid the gen­er­ous pock­ets of people at work with an actual paper spon­sor form as well, to help me get to my tar­get of £250 (because my com­pany will match dona­tions up to £250, it seemed like a good target.)

I think I’ll go out for a couple of short runs in the next seven days, then give myself a com­plete week’s rest before the half marathon…