Matt Gets Running

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 […]