Matt Gets Running

Today’s half marathon — my first — went pretty well all round. I was a bit wor­ried by the amount of rain I could hear before I set out, but it turned into occa­sional driz­zle for the race, which is per­fect jog­ging weather, really — no need to worry about over­heat­ing. I kept jog­ging from […]

So, I reckon it’s about five weeks until the Bris­tol Half Marathon. *Gulp*. So, please help moti­vate me to keep on run­ning, no mat­ter what the weather (and in the UK on the 5th Sep­tem­ber, let’s face it, it could be any­thing from a heat­wave to a hail­storm) by spon­sor­ing me to run for my […]

Ah, yes, the hottest day of the year. Just the time to get out into the sun­shine at nearly noon and run 5 kilo­me­tres wear­ing y-fronts. Oh yes. Although I do have a sneak­ing sus­pi­cion that the three laps of the bloody great field we ran around wasn’t quite 5K, but I don’t sup­pose it […]

I’m still not feel­ing 100%. This morn­ing, though, I was struck by a blind­ing flash of the obvi­ous: if I’m not feel­ing 100%, I don’t have to run 100%! So, fig­ur­ing that build­ing back up momen­tum is more impor­tant than stick­ing to my usual 5K min­i­mum, I went out for a nice lit­tle 3K jog in […]

Hello, lovely read­ers! You’re look­ing great today. Have you lost weight? Yes, you can tell I’m but­ter­ing you up for some­thing, can’t you? Turns out that it’s only a cou­ple of months until the Bris­tol 10K, which is hap­pen­ing on 9th May. My very first race! So, as you might expect, I’m here, cap in hand, […]