Matt Gets Running

Today’s jog took me out along the Port­way, mostly because the weather has been so utterly crazy in Bris­tol today that I fig­ured I’d stick to a route where there were likely no pud­dles and I was fairly unlikely to be struck by light­ning. We had the most enor­mous thun­der­clap I’ve heard in my life […]

I’m going to try to get out twice on week­days this week, because it’s been ages since I’ve done that. I seem to have degen­er­ated into a one-midweek, once-at-the-weekend pat­tern, mostly since the Bris­tol 10K. I think I need to start build­ing the aver­age miles up a bit again, and get out when I can. Today’s […]

Well, I’ve been a bit rub­bish this week. No mid-week run. Mostly that was because I was busy doing strange things like film­ing advice on how to take pho­tos of light­ning with a BBC weath­er­man. That, and the seri­ous weather we have in fact had this week, albeit sadly lack­ing the light­ning, meant I didn’t […]

It was, again, really very sunny and warm today. I didn’t get up early enough to avoid it, so instead of head­ing for the Downs like usual, I went for a lit­tle jog around Leigh Woods, which has a lot more shade, instead. I didn’t take it too seri­ously, stop­ping off in a few different […]

I’m still not feel­ing 100%. This morn­ing, though, I was struck by a blind­ing flash of the obvi­ous: if I’m not feel­ing 100%, I don’t have to run 100%! So, fig­ur­ing that build­ing back up momen­tum is more impor­tant than stick­ing to my usual 5K min­i­mum, I went out for a nice lit­tle 3K jog in […]

I’m crazy busy this week, so this is going to be a quick post in between me com­ing home from my run and stretch­ing :) I just got out for 5K, for the first time since last week, and it was okay. I wasn’t really feel­ing like run­ning — I think I might be coming […]

In a fairly rare move for me, I didn’t get out for a run this week­end. Or this evening. I’m try­ing to give myself a break about this. This week­end I was out of town vis­it­ing friends, and I’m still play­ing catchup on the thou­sand things I should have done at the week­end if I’d […]

Just a quick blog today. I got out for a sim­ple 5K out along the tow­path. No Run­K­eeper log to show for it today, as the GPS just didn’t want to lock. So I ran for about eigh­teen min­utes, then turned around and ran back, on the ground that that would be at least five […]

This month has been pretty slack for me, running-wise. But that’s a fairly con­scious choice. I didn’t want to too much the week before the 10K, and I felt like rest­ing on my lau­rels a bit after it. Plus I nor­mally take it easy after any long jog, and 10K def­i­nitely counts! But today I […]

Just a very quick update tonight. I took last week off after my 15K effort last Sun­day, but I got back on the road again tonight. It was a nice easy 5K out along the Port­way. I had intended to go down the tow­path on the other side of the river, but I was confounded […]