Matt Gets Running

Fant­astic run today. I got an extra hour in bed because of the end of Brit­ish Sum­mer Time, which was a good start. Then I headed out to jog up Bridge Val­ley Road and around the Downs. I kept to a nice, steady pace — as you can see from the Run­Keeper map/log/stats — and did […]

I just nipped out for a cof­fee in Clifton Vil­lage. But I went the long way round, as you can see here This run includes a 5-minute walk­ing warm-up at the start. So, just did a shade over 5km in about 40 minutes, includ­ing Bridge Val­ley Road. This pic­ture gives an idea of what that involves. […]

Wow! I just ran up Bridge Val­ley Road. Well, I say “ran”; actual run­ners might take issue. But it was a def­in­ite jog, at least. I’d dug around for advice on teh intar­webs, and basic­ally just star­ted off the hill nice and slowly, with a shorter pace than my on-the-flat run­ning. And I kept it slow […]

Just a quick check-in: I’m still alive. My run today was a bit rub­bish — I’d for­got­ten that bit of the A4 Port­way between me and my tar­get hill, Bridge Val­ley Road, was closed all day today. They’re doing rock­face safety checks, basic­ally mak­ing sure that no fall­ing rocks are likely to kill any ped­es­tri­ans or […]