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 […]

I’m ill. Which is fine. I’d spe­cific­ally planned to do bugger-all dur­ing the period between Christ­mas and New Year, and if you’re going to loaf about unshaven for a few days, you might as well fit a cold in while you do it. It helps that — so far — it’s just a reg­u­lar winter lurgy […]

After two con­sec­ut­ive Christ­mas parties, I wasn’t feel­ing up for a run today. But when I finally drew the blinds and found out it was a lovely sunny day, I figured I should get some exer­cise. So I wandered out for a little walk that turned into 9K around Leigh Woods. Not much to report, […]

There’s no way I’d have been able to get out to the Avon Gorge for a lunch­time jog if I was still work­ing my old day-job in town. Now I’m work­ing from home, it’s a lot easier. And that’s par­tic­u­larly good at this time of year, because if you leave it much later than lunchtime, […]

Here’s a pic­ture from last week’s jog, when I went out on Thursday, tak­ing advant­age of my new unem­ployed lay­about freel­ance status by going for a 6K run around the Downs at lunch­time. It was a clear, fresh autumn-nearly-winter day, and I enjoyed the jog, mostly. Though I did drop back to a walk in […]

After the aches and pains of Thursday, yesterday’s jog through Leigh Woods was very pleas­ant. While it was hard work in places, it was the right kind of hard work, the kind of hard work that left me stand­ing at the tops of hills pant­ing until I’d recovered, rather than the kind of hard work […]

I didn’t jog last week­end, but instead went for a nice walk in Leigh Woods with my friend Emmeline. I love run­ning in the woods, but it made a pleas­ant change hav­ing some com­pany and going slow enough to carry the big cam­era around. I did get out for a mid-week jog, a 5K down […]