Matt Gets 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 Clifton […]

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 […]