Matt Gets Running

I’ve not pos­ted about run­ning since the Bris­tol 10K, have I? That’s lax of me. Good news: it’s not because I’ve been that lazy about exer­cise, just about post­ing. Last Sunday I went up Bridge Val­ley Road and around the Downs, which felt good. Since then I haven’t run at all, but that’s because I dusted […]

Hur­rah! Actu­ally man­aged to get out and do a mid­week run. Noth­ing thrill­ing, just a dusk run along the Port­way and back. But get­ting out on a weeknight is good, and hope­fully I can do it again next week and start get­ting back into the habit of them. Any­way. I’d best go and stretch, and then […]

I would title this entry “up with the lark”, but I don’t actu­ally know what a lark looks like. If there were any larks in Bris­tol, the seagulls would prob­ably have eaten them by now. This time yes­ter­day I was still in bed, hav­ing a long, loun­ging Sat­urday morn­ing lie-in. So it was a bit of […]

I’ve got a prob­lem at work. Well, okay, I have sev­eral prob­lems at work, includ­ing the irrit­at­ing fact I have to go there every day. But the prob­lem I want to share today is the Prob­lem of the Spare Desk. Since our team moved floors a couple of months ago, I’ve had to sit next to […]

Things I found out on my run last night: 1) It was cold. 2) My hip aches. 3) I was tired. 4) I don’t much care for Arcade Fire. Still, I think it was prob­ably import­ant to drag myself out, reluct­antly, for my first mid-week run of the year. I’ve got to build some momentum […]

You may have noticed a short hiatus on the blog. That’s related to the short hiatus in my run­ning. As I men­tioned last time, I’ve been feel­ing a bit tired and run down this month. As a res­ult, I’ve not really been look­ing for­ward to going out for a run, espe­cially on the dark weekday […]

I was a Sad Santa on Sunday. As were these other people. We’d all made our way to the Lloyds Amphi­theatre to take part in Santas on the Run, a 2K char­ity fun run for the South West Children’s Hos­pice. As you’ll have worked out, the idea is for every­one to dress as Santa for […]

These last couple of weeks I do feel a bit like I’ve just been going through the motions. I’ve been busy, tired, and feel­ing rather run down. On Wed­nes­day, I got home feel­ing tired and run down and really not want­ing to go for a run. And it was bloody cold out­side. “Maybe I could […]

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 […]

Yeah. Not entirely sure I believe the last few kilo­metres of RunKeeper’s log for today’s run: Espe­cially con­sid­er­ing the pace over the last couple of kilo­metres meas­ured around 1.5 minutes per kilo­metre. Although I sup­pose I would prob­ably have needed that kind of speed to fly over the Avon Gorge and sev­eral tall build­ings like that. […]