Matt Gets Running

I’ve got a prob­lem at work. Well, okay, I have sev­eral prob­lems at work, includ­ing the irrit­at­ing fact I have to go there every day. But the prob­lem I want to share today is the Prob­lem of the Spare Desk. Since our team moved floors a couple of months ago, I’ve had to sit next to […]

I had a day off work. It looked like a nice morn­ing for a little jog. So, I went out for a little jog. Which turned into a longer jog. Which turned into a bit of an epic. I did set out with the idea of going for a longish run. I set off with […]

Back in April, I men­tioned that I wanted to lose some weight. At the time, I was 16 stone, 12.5 pounds. That’s  236.5lbs, or about 107 kilos. I pro­cras­tin­ated for a bit, I had a couple of false starts, but then I got on, and stuck to, a restric­tion in my cal­or­ies for a good few […]

I’m crazy busy this week, so this is going to be a quick post in between me com­ing home from my run and stretch­ing I just got out for 5K, for the first time since last week, and it was okay. I wasn’t really feel­ing like run­ning — I think I might be com­ing down […]

Today’s jog was a very simple, slow 5K out down along the towpath and back. I almost didn’t go; I’ve had a fairly busy week­end, not enough sleep, and I was pretty tired. But I bought this chocol­ate flap­jack, see, at lunch­time, from Chan­dos Deli in Clifton Vil­lage. And it was meant to be my […]

Just a very quick update tonight. I took last week off after my 15K effort last Sunday, but I got back on the road again tonight. It was a nice easy 5K out along the Port­way. I had inten­ded to go down the towpath on the other side of the river, but I was confounded […]

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’m not entirely con­vinced that a mere 5K tonight bal­ances out yesterday’s pan­cakes. And it’s pos­sible that yesterday’s stodge was what made tonight’s run feel like such hard, slow work. Still, this is the closest I’ve come to run­ning in actual day­light on a week­day for a long time. It won’t be long before I’m not […]