Matt Gets Running

The Bris­tol 10K is approach­ing. It’s on road signs now, so it must be offi­cial! My plan to do a few runs in this penul­ti­mate train­ing week is going well; I got out for another 5K this evening. I also man­aged to get to the other side of the river before the high tide and […]

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 […]

No per­sonal best for the 5K this evening — that still remains at the just-under-31 min­utes I man­aged back in Novem­ber, run­ning as fast as I sus­tain­ably could all the way. But tonight, I think, was the fastest since then, at 32:26. And con­sid­er­ing I did a nor­mal jog on the way out, then just did […]