Matt Gets Running

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 […]

I’ll start off with a nice happy pic­ture, just to show that some of today’s run was quite pleas­ant. These are a few of the mil­lions of blue­bells cur­rently car­pet­ing Leigh Woods, which makes the woods even nicer than usual for jog­ging. And it was also a nice sunny day, as you can prob­ably tell. […]

I was a Sad Santa on Sunday. As were these other people. We’d all made our way to the Lloyds Amphi­theatre to take part in Santas on the Run, a 2K char­ity fun run for the South West Children’s Hos­pice. As you’ll have worked out, the idea is for every­one to dress as Santa for […]

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 […]

Cyc­ling up Bridge Val­ley Road, to be pre­cise. Steep. Although it’s clearly not all the same muscles that get used by cyc­ling and run­ning, at least the aer­obic fit­ness from run­ning is trans­fer­able. I could never have cycled up Bridge Val­ley Road this time last year. Today, on a nearly 9K-cycle ride that took me up […]

My left hip’s been play­ing up a bit recently. It’s been quite achey the last couple of days, pos­sibly because of the amount of walk­ing I’ve done, head­ing to Ashton Court and back for vari­ous bits of the Bal­loon Fiesta. So, I fig­ure I need a bit of a time-out, espe­cially as I don’t want […]

Bleh. That was one of those runs where I just knew I didn’t want to be run­ning as soon as I star­ted. It didn’t get much bet­ter, either, as I struggled fairly slowly through 5K. Still, at least I did struggle through. Some­times just get­ting through it is enough. I think it’s because I’m tired. […]

My feet seem to be a bit achey after run­ning recently. It sud­denly occurred to me that, even though it only seems like a few weeks ago that I bought a new pair of shoes, it might actu­ally have been rather longer. And that’s where a blog comes in handy. I first bought proper running […]