Matt Gets Running

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 […]

Back to the A4 Port­way for a nice sim­ple 5K this evening. It was warm and close, and the wide open feel of the road felt like a bet­ter anti­dote than the pleas­ant, yet sometimes-claustrophobic tow­path. Just a token effort, really, my first since Thursday’s 21km epic, and I took it slowly. No prob­lems, though. […]

Wel­come to the 100th blog post­ing on Matt Gets Run­ning :) To mark the occa­sion, here’s a video of my (Good) Fri­day run, along the Avon Gorge tow­path, up the hill into Leigh Woods, around a lit­tle detour—to reverse out of some of the worst of the mud I ran into!—and then back to the […]

I think the new shoes have done the trick. Some­thing has, any­way, as tonight’s run was lots bet­ter than my last 5K effort down the Port­way. My hip feels fine, and I didn’t feel totally knack­ered from the get-go like I did last time, either. Which is all good. Even bet­ter, there were actu­ally some […]

So, picked up my new shoes on Fri­day — Mizuno Wave Inspire 6es — and walked lots in them yes­ter­day to make sure they felt all right, and that noth­ing was rub­bing. And they were fine, so today I went out into the gor­geous Spring sun­shine and did a sim­ple 5-and-a-bit-K, just around half the […]