Matt Gets Running

My admir­ing hordes (hello, Mar­garet!) have been won­der­ing whether I made it out for my fourth “res­ol­u­tion” run of Janu­ary, and the answer is a resound­ing “yes”. I didn’t enjoy the first kilo­metre of Friday’s run, des­pite it being a nice day. I hadn’t slept that well, and I wasn’t really in the mood for running. […]

Just a simple 6K along the towpath and back yes­ter­day. I ran yes­ter­day partly because I felt like it, and partly because it looked like it might be the last non-rainy day of the week. It was prop­erly wintry yes­ter­day, around 6C, but I was fine once I’d warmed up. Apart from that, noth­ing to […]

I’ve been feel­ing bet­ter this week. It’s pleas­ant, when you wake up in the morn­ing and think, “Wow! I don’t feel like utter crap!” This week I decided in advance that I’d go out on Thursday, just because I wanted to pick a day and stick to it. And not wait until the last minute, like […]

After my “very achiev­able” res­ol­u­tion to get run­ning once a week in Janu­ary, I only just squeaked the first run into the first week. Yes­ter­day — on the 7th Janu­ary! — I finally got around to run­ning. In my defence, I was still feel­ing ill for the first part of the week, plus the weather’s […]