Matt Gets Running

Today I ran the Bris­tol 10K, mostly with my friend (and erstwhile boss) Mike. Mike had ori­gin­ally planned to part­ner up with a friend who’s a fair bit faster than me, but she got a hip injury at the last minute, unfor­tu­nately. So, I rebel­li­ously brought my green-numbered self into the red lane with Mike […]

My only recent run was a slow 5K up the hill to the shops on Sat­urday. That’s because I’m (a) busy as hell this week, and some­thing has to give, and (b) run­ning the Bris­tol 10K on Sunday! If you’d like to help me out with some charity-based encour­age­ment, I’ll be run­ning the 10K in […]

April was a good month. I ran twice as far in April — 62.5km — than I did in any month in the pre­vi­ous year. So that’s a def­in­ite “win” when it comes to build­ing up my momentum. There’s been a slight fal­ter­ing, though, in the first week of May, as I only went out […]

And so ends another week where I only man­aged two runs. My lack of time this week was some­what exacer­bated by the cur­rent UK weather situ­ation. The UK media have been hav­ing a (water­logged) field day recently, because if there’s one thing that the Brit­ish love talk­ing about more than weather, it’s ironic weather, and […]

Just like to say a big “thank you” to my spon­sors for the Bris­tol 10K! In total, I raised £135. That’s matched by my com­pany to make £270, and count­ing the gift aid we’re at £301.03 for Saint Peter’s Hos­pice. That’s a fab res­ult, so thanks, all! I’d ima­gine I won’t be shak­ing my virtual […]

The Bris­tol 10K was my first race, this time last year. It’s a good, fun race, with a whole lot of people — 9,000 fin­ished this year — and it’s right on my door­step. It only takes me twenty minutes to get to the start line, and then we run right back past my flat […]

It has not been a bril­liant run-up to the Bris­tol 10K. I feel pretty good, mind you, and I’m sure there’ll be no prob­lem doing it. But I’d had hopes of los­ing more weight (I’ve plat­eaued since I was ill a few weeks ago. I’m well now, just not back on the wagon.) And I […]

  I’ve been tak­ing it easy since the Bath Half, giv­ing myself some recov­ery time, though I did man­age to wander out for a 5K last Sunday, and a 5K today, too. But my thoughts recently have been more on eat­ing than on exer­cise. Because, des­pite tak­ing up jog­ging, my weight has been remark­ably static. […]

This month has been pretty slack for me, running-wise. But that’s a fairly con­scious choice. I didn’t want to too much the week before the 10K, and I felt like rest­ing on my laurels a bit after it. Plus I nor­mally take it easy after any long jog, and 10K def­in­itely counts! But today I […]

So, hav­ing checked I’d got everything about three times, I set off this morn­ing to walk down to the start of the Bris­tol 10K. Everything was very civ­il­ised and well-organised. I got a pre­view of what was to come by walk­ing in through what would become the “handouts at the fin­ish” sec­tion, where they were […]