Matt Gets Running

I was in Lon­don at the week­end. I ate most of it. Well, it felt like it, any­way. My friend Kavey invited me along for the week­end to cel­eb­rate her recent birth­day, and we went along to Chocol­ate Unwrapped, and also had a fab after­noon tea at the astound­ingly styl­ish Bob Bob Ricard. That meant […]

Just a quick 5K down the Port­way for me this even­ing. After I got back, I signed up for one of RunKeeper’s new “vir­tual Fit­ness­Classes”, which I’m hop­ing will give me a train­ing plan to stick to through the winter. My half-marathon speed was really quite rub­bish — hardly sur­pris­ing given that I’ve never pushed […]

Well, it’s been a very lazy month so far, in some ways. Today’s 5K jog was only the second bit of run­ning I’ve done all month. Of course, this was mostly because the first bit of run­ning was the half mara­thon, and I decided to give myself a week’s break both before and after it, just […]

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 […]

I was going to get out mid-week this week and do a little run, but it rained for pretty much five days solid, and espe­cially heav­ily on Wed­nes­day, which was oth­er­wise my best run­ning option. Luck­ily the weather seems to have cleared up a bit for the Bank Hol­i­day week­end, so I nipped out to […]

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 […]

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 […]

I was think­ing of head­ing out for quite a long run this week­end, but it didn’t really work out like that. I’ve taken on some sud­den spare-time work, and that’s eaten a lot of my week­end time. Still, I did man­age to get out for 7K out along the towpath, up through Leigh Woods, and […]

Bleh. That was one of those runs where I just knew I didn’t want to be run­ning as soon as I star­ted. It didn’t get much bet­ter, either, as I struggled fairly slowly through 5K. Still, at least I did struggle through. Some­times just get­ting through it is enough. I think it’s because I’m tired. […]

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 […]