Matt Gets Running

April was a good month. I ran twice as far in April — 62.5km — than I did in any month in the pre­vi­ous year. So that’s a def­in­ite “win” when it comes to build­ing up my momentum. There’s been a slight fal­ter­ing, though, in the first week of May, as I only went out […]

And so ends another week where I only man­aged two runs. My lack of time this week was some­what exacer­bated by the cur­rent UK weather situ­ation. The UK media have been hav­ing a (water­logged) field day recently, because if there’s one thing that the Brit­ish love talk­ing about more than weather, it’s ironic weather, and […]

The tele­vi­sion cov­er­age of the Lon­don Mara­thon should have been a great inspir­a­tion to go jog­ging on Sunday. Unfor­tu­nately I was watch­ing it from behind a hangover, on a sofa quite a long way from home. I did, in the end, struggle out for a run on Sunday, but it was just a des­ultory jog around […]

I lost momentum a bit this week. I didn’t get out for two mid-week jogs, mostly because as well as being back in the office 9 to 5, I’m also work­ing hard out­side the office, and had a couple of even­ings taken up with social stuff, too. Still, I man­aged to head out last night, […]

I’m man­aging to keep up the momentum, it seems. Just came back from today’s 7.5K around Leigh Woods. I’m still not back up to the level of fit­ness that lets me get up that hill in one unin­ter­rup­ted jog, but it didn’t take long to get my breath back at the pic­nic table after the […]

One of the prob­lems I’ve faced while try­ing to get back into the habit of run­ning three times a week is a lack of that men­tal itch that says “you’ve not been run­ning recently, you know.” It hasn’t helped that this is a busy week, as I pre­pare for a return to an office job […]

So, after the ropey Bath Half, I’m try­ing to get back to a level of fit­ness where I won’t embar­rass myself at the Bris­tol 10K. That means get­ting back out and run­ning three times a week, like I used to. So far, that seems to be going well. I headed out for 5Ks on Monday and […]

My plan to get back to run­ning three times a week, to help me recover some fit­ness before the Bris­tol 10K, seems to be start­ing off okay. I fol­lowed up Monday’s run with another run today, so that’s my two week­day runs done. I’ll get some­thing a bit longer in at the week­end. Today’s run […]

My admir­ing hordes (hello, Mar­garet!) have been won­der­ing whether I made it out for my fourth “res­ol­u­tion” run of Janu­ary, and the answer is a resound­ing “yes”. I didn’t enjoy the first kilo­metre of Friday’s run, des­pite it being a nice day. I hadn’t slept that well, and I wasn’t really in the mood for running. […]

Just a simple 6K along the towpath and back yes­ter­day. I ran yes­ter­day partly because I felt like it, and partly because it looked like it might be the last non-rainy day of the week. It was prop­erly wintry yes­ter­day, around 6C, but I was fine once I’d warmed up. Apart from that, noth­ing to […]