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 […]

Just another quick update: it’s still icy out there, but I’m keep­ing up the “doing some exer­cise” momen­tum. Just fin­ished another 35 min­utes on the exer­cise bike, this time dis­tracted by The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which seems suit­ably enter­tain­ing. And remark­ably close to the orig­i­nal. Any­way. It was dull enough to do, […]

It was hard enough walk­ing to work today, so I haven’t been run­ning. Nev­er­the­less, I made sure to get some exer­cise. On top of walk­ing a cou­ple of miles to work and back through the snow, we had a snow­ball fight at work at lunchtime — well, in the park next to work, any­way. Must […]