Matt Gets 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 — at […]

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 Clifton […]

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 […]

It’s a lovely day out there. Per­fect run­ning weather. Sunny and cold. Not sure if I’m going, though. I seem to be ill with some cold-y thing that’s sap­ping my energy. I just slept for ten hours, got up, had break­fast, cof­fee and Lem­sip, and I still don’t feel like I want to do any­thing. I […]

I was lucky enough to be on a nice, heated, covered boat this morn­ing while my col­league Chris was cyc­ling to work through what I think I can only describe as “tor­ren­tial sleet”. That made me worry about the pro­spects for this even­ing, but it dried off and maybe even warmed up a bit by the […]