Matt Gets Running

The week­end before last, I ran 10K. Last week­end, I ran 7K through rain and mud to review those Adi­das shoes. Both runs involved climb­ing from river level up to above the height of the Sus­pen­sion Bridge. Today, I looked out of the win­dow at the spring sun­shine, and decided to give myself a break. […]

Last Sat­urday, I thought about jog­ging, looked out of the win­dow, and saw it was rain­ing. Then I went out any­way, because it was a good chance to test out my new Adi­das trail shoes. New Adi­das shoes? Didn’t you just buy a pair of Mizunos, Matt? Yup. But Sports Direct’s media agency (hi, Lucie!) had […]

On Sunday, I felt pretty good, and the weather wasn’t quite as damn cold as it had been on Sat­urday, so I set out to do a respect­able dis­tance. I did my first 10K train­ing jog the year, though Leigh Woods (hand­ily, my nor­mal Leigh Woods route plus a loop of the “purple path” works […]

It has been pretty nippy in Bris­tol recently, though we escaped the blanket of snow that covered the major­ity of the coun­try last week. It’s 2C out­side right now, in the middle of the day, and I was told that there’s more cold weather on the way. I took advant­age of a slight gap in the […]