Matt Gets Running

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 […]

My feet seem to be a bit achey after run­ning recently. It sud­denly occurred to me that, even though it only seems like a few weeks ago that I bought a new pair of shoes, it might actu­ally have been rather longer. And that’s where a blog comes in handy. I first bought proper running […]

Just went for a sim­ple 5K along the tow­path tonight, nice and easy. Although RunKeeper’s show­ing it as a slow 6K, because I included the warm-up and cool down, and for­got to stop the track­ing when I’d fin­ished the cool down… About the only thing of note — apart from the rather lovely view I spotted […]

Despite what I said last time, I didn’t get a chance to run last week­end, so I’ve had a full week off. Which feels fine to me. And tomor­row, I run the Bris­tol 10K :) I’ll be start­ing off in the sec­ond of the two groups — i.e. with the slow peo­ple, at the back — […]

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 […]

Wel­come to the 100th blog post­ing on Matt Gets Run­ning :) To mark the occa­sion, here’s a video of my (Good) Fri­day run, along the Avon Gorge tow­path, up the hill into Leigh Woods, around a lit­tle detour—to reverse out of some of the worst of the mud I ran into!—and then back to the […]

As you know, I’ve been hav­ing prob­lems with my hip — well, in fact my hip and the top bit of my left-hand gluteal mus­cle, or “upper arse”, as I believe it’s tech­ni­cally known. I reckon it may be down to shoes, so yes­ter­day I went shop­ping. In Moti, the advice was basi­cally, “well, if […]

That was really hard work. All I did was my nor­mal week­day 5K, but I just felt com­pletely ener­gy­less. Hmph. And my hip’s aching again. I’m start­ing to won­der if I might need to replace my run­ning shoes. I bought them pretty much exactly six months ago, so they must have trav­elled a fair distance. […]

I went to a cock­tail party last night. Even though I don’t drink, it meant I was up until about 2am, so I didn’t drag myself out for a jog until about half past one today. Bit of a con­trast from last week’s 7am enthu­si­asm! Any­way, to get myself going, I down­loaded Lady Gaga’s album […]

I don’t exer­cise in the morn­ing. I’m just not a morn­ing per­son. Vir­tu­ally all my run­ning is done in the evening, or, at the very ear­li­est, lunchtime, at the week­ends. So. A bit odd, then, that this morn­ing I woke up just before the alarm clock did that quiet lit­tle *clonk* it does when the […]