Matt Gets Running

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 […]

On Sunday, I felt pretty good, and the weather wasn’t quite as damn cold as it had been on Sat­urday, so I set out to do a respect­able dis­tance. I did my first 10K train­ing jog the year, though Leigh Woods (hand­ily, my nor­mal Leigh Woods route plus a loop of the “purple path” works […]

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. […]

Got out early this morn­ing — well, before 9am, any­way, which I thought was pretty good for a Sunday — and trogged up and around the Downs for 8K. Get­ting out early was a good idea for two reas­ons. The main reason was to avoid the mid­day sun that nearly fried me the last time […]

Like I said in my last update, I fan­cied get­ting out for a nice long run this week­end, and this morn­ing I made good on that. I ran from home, out along the towpath under the Sus­pen­sion Bridge, all the way to the far entrance to Leigh Woods, then up into the forest. I did a […]