Matt Gets Running

So, I went to Crete for a week, and then took another week off jog­ging. Still, I hit the road again today, and I’m glad I did. I hadn’t planned on a morn­ing run today, but it was a lovely morn­ing, and I just felt the urge to be out there in the sun­shine. I […]

Today I woke up tired and with a head­ache, after a bad night’s sleep. Oddly, though, I still felt the urge to go out for my first jog since the Bris­tol Half. I’ve been mean­ing to get back out pound­ing the streets for a couple of weeks now, but my change in routine — I […]

Thank you, every­one who sponsored me for the Bris­tol Half Mara­thon. My com­pany were kind enough to match all the dona­tions, too. So, work­ing it out, with the dona­tions, the match­ing, the gift aid, and the small fee Just Giv­ing take, I think I raised £272.50 for St. Peter’s Hos­pice, which is bril­liant. Due to […]

Yup! Another day, another medal. I’m get­ting quite a col­lec­tion now! I enjoyed the Bris­tol Half Mara­thon on Sunday, des­pite hav­ing had some reser­va­tions about my weight and the amount of train­ing I’d been doing. I didn’t think I stood much chance of beat­ing my per­sonal best from the Bath Half. At least I arrived relaxed and […]

Yes, the race pack has arrived With two half-marathons under my belt now, I feel fairly con­fid­ent about this Sunday’s Bris­tol Half, des­pite the fact that the belt in ques­tion has had to expand by a notch or two in the last few months. A hol­i­day in the Lake Dis­trict actu­ally saw me lose a […]

It was a lovely day for a jog in Bris­tol. I was a bit delayed get­ting star­ted. I nor­mally walk across the top of a lock gate on my walk to the start of the towpath, but this morn­ing the lock gate was open to let a little batch of ships and row­ing boats out […]

Since my last angst-filled posts, I have man­aged to get out a couple of times, but I’m not back even to twice-a-week run­ning yet. Still. On the plus side, last Sunday I got out for a 10K run through Leigh Woods, albeit with a bit of a walk­ing break on the steep bits. This week­end I […]

After my last some­what dis­pir­it­ing post, some good news. I’ve been mak­ing an effort to get back into the habit. I’ve not sud­denly turned into the kind of jog­ging ninja I was fan­tas­ising about back then (shame, as The Jog­ging Ninja would be a good name for a blog) but I have at least got […]

I’ve had my fail­ures. Most of them, with run­ning so far, have been indi­vidual screwups. Bad runs, bad shoes, that kind of thing. But at the moment, I’m facing a lar­ger fail­ure. I’ve repeatedly failed to lose weight since I star­ted run­ning, but recently — the last year or so — I’ve been act­ively putting […]

I’ve not pos­ted about run­ning since the Bris­tol 10K, have I? That’s lax of me. Good news: it’s not because I’ve been that lazy about exer­cise, just about post­ing. Last Sunday I went up Bridge Val­ley Road and around the Downs, which felt good. Since then I haven’t run at all, but that’s because I dusted […]