Matt Gets Running

I’m ill. Which is fine. I’d spe­cific­ally planned to do bugger-all dur­ing the period between Christ­mas and New Year, and if you’re going to loaf about unshaven for a few days, you might as well fit a cold in while you do it. It helps that — so far — it’s just a reg­u­lar winter lurgy […]

It has been a crap week­end. I took Fri­day off to give myself some extra time for get­ting stuff done this week­end. Then on Fri­day I was ill, strangely fever­ish, and feel­ing really weird. That ended up in insom­nia which kept me awake until about 3am on Sat­urday. Sat­urday I finally woke up at about […]

Ble­urgh. Been a bit too busy to update, mostly because I spent most of the week­end before last either in Lon­don in a pub, or in Bris­tol enter­tain­ing people, often in a pub… As a res­ult, I was com­pletely knackered last week, and haven’t been run­ning much. Also, I think I may be com­ing down with […]

You may have noticed that I’ve not pos­ted in more than a week, which is a bit unusual for me. Noth­ing to worry about, but I’ve been laid low with some coldy/fluey thing that’s been going around at work. I seem to be recov­er­ing now. Hope­fully I’ll be back out and run­ning soon, prob­ably on Wednesday. […]

I think it’s quite for­tu­it­ous that this is the week I’ve been read­ing the chapter on avoid­ing injur­ies in John Bingham’s No Need for Speed. One of the things he talks about is how to pay atten­tion to your body; how to listen to those early, gentle aches and pains that mean you should back […]

Well, turns out I’m actu­ally crazy. Crazy like those weirdos who go out run­ning when they’re ill and tell you that it actu­ally helps. Because it helped. Not only did it help, but in some ways, the ill­ness seemed to help the run­ning, too. My lack of con­cen­tra­tion made me a bit for­get­ful. I for­got I […]

It’s a lovely day out there. Per­fect run­ning weather. Sunny and cold. Not sure if I’m going, though. I seem to be ill with some cold-y thing that’s sap­ping my energy. I just slept for ten hours, got up, had break­fast, cof­fee and Lem­sip, and I still don’t feel like I want to do any­thing. I […]