Matt Gets Running

I’ve been feel­ing bet­ter this week. It’s pleas­ant, when you wake up in the morn­ing and think, “Wow! I don’t feel like utter crap!” This week I decided in advance that I’d go out on Thursday, just because I wanted to pick a day and stick to it. And not wait until the last minute, like […]

After my “very achiev­able” res­ol­u­tion to get run­ning once a week in Janu­ary, I only just squeaked the first run into the first week. Yes­ter­day — on the 7th Janu­ary! — I finally got around to run­ning. In my defence, I was still feel­ing ill for the first part of the week, plus the weather’s […]

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 […]

After the aches and pains of Thursday, yesterday’s jog through Leigh Woods was very pleas­ant. While it was hard work in places, it was the right kind of hard work, the kind of hard work that left me stand­ing at the tops of hills pant­ing until I’d recovered, rather than the kind of hard work […]

I didn’t jog last week­end, but instead went for a nice walk in Leigh Woods with my friend Emmeline. I love run­ning in the woods, but it made a pleas­ant change hav­ing some com­pany and going slow enough to carry the big cam­era around. I did get out for a mid-week jog, a 5K down […]

So, I went to Crete for a week, and then took another week off jog­ging. Still, I hit the road again today, and I’m glad I did. I hadn’t planned on a morn­ing run today, but it was a lovely morn­ing, and I just felt the urge to be out there in the sun­shine. I […]

Today I woke up tired and with a head­ache, after a bad night’s sleep. Oddly, though, I still felt the urge to go out for my first jog since the Bris­tol Half. I’ve been mean­ing to get back out pound­ing the streets for a couple of weeks now, but my change in routine — I […]

Thank you, every­one who sponsored me for the Bris­tol Half Mara­thon. My com­pany were kind enough to match all the dona­tions, too. So, work­ing it out, with the dona­tions, the match­ing, the gift aid, and the small fee Just Giv­ing take, I think I raised £272.50 for St. Peter’s Hos­pice, which is bril­liant. Due to […]

It was a lovely day for a jog in Bris­tol. I was a bit delayed get­ting star­ted. I nor­mally walk across the top of a lock gate on my walk to the start of the towpath, but this morn­ing the lock gate was open to let a little batch of ships and row­ing boats out […]

After my last some­what dis­pir­it­ing post, some good news. I’ve been mak­ing an effort to get back into the habit. I’ve not sud­denly turned into the kind of jog­ging ninja I was fan­tas­ising about back then (shame, as The Jog­ging Ninja would be a good name for a blog) but I have at least got […]