Matt Gets Running

“…don’t look out you’re going to break your neck.” The Prim­it­ives’ fab 1988 single, Crash, poured some good advice out into my head­phones as I ran this even­ing. Because it was bloody freez­ing. Look, even my WeatherPro iPhone app said it was minus 0ºC. That’s like freez­ing, only even freezinger.1 Luck­ily, the ice seemed to be […]

Build­ing up momentum again after you’ve taken time off is best done as soon as pos­sible. Given that, I decided to fol­low through on yesterday’s decision and get out of the door des­pite the wet weather, and the fact I’m not feel­ing well. My con­ces­sion to ill­ness and the rain was to run only a short […]

So, first it was icy on the pave­ments. Then it was Christ­mas. And then I was ill. As a res­ult, it’s now been eight days since I last went for a run. Plus, with the amount I’ve eaten, I’ve prob­ably just about doubled my body weight in the last week… Ble­urgh. So, is there any good news? […]

This morn­ing, I put on my wooly hat before head­ing out­side, on the grounds that it was –1ºC. Then I got out into the street, turned around, and went back for my sunglasses. I def­in­itely needed both, which is a com­bin­a­tion I’ve not found neces­sary since the last time I went snow­board­ing… As the rest […]

Today was a bit crap. It was cold, wet, and I wasn’t in the mood. But I got out and did a des­ultory 5K any­way, which I guess counts for some­thing. The first run after a long run is def­in­itely hard work. Cer­tainly I’ve not noticed an excep­tion to that rule yet. I left it […]

Def­in­ite rule of run­ning: once you’ve done a dis­tance once, it’s a lot easier, psy­cho­lo­gic­ally, to do it again. Today I was feel­ing pretty good, and I’d had a decent night’s sleep, and the weather looked okay, so I decided to do 10K again. And here it is on RunKeeper.com. It was actu­ally 10.42km, about the […]

Des­pite today’s pic­ture, it wasn’t actu­ally a bad 5K. This is just some­thing writ­ten on the Port­way pave­ment that I’ve been mean­ing to take a photo of for months. Today I did simple 5K, with no glam­our and noth­ing to talk about of note. So, bear­ing in mind I’m crazy busy and a bit tired, I’m […]

Bear­ing in mind all the rain we’ve had recently, I’ve been pretty lucky with the run­ning. It was gor­geous this morn­ing, bril­liant sun­shine and not even that cold. As well as this one of the winter trees, there’s a couple on Flickr taken from the same point on the Port­way, one look­ing out of town, and […]

…that’s me. Remem­ber­ing how rub­bish I felt on my first run after doing 8K, I figured I’d best be care­ful for my first run after 10K. This time I left three clear days after my long run before get­ting back out on the road. It seems to have had the right effect. The simple 5K I […]

You never know whether it’s going to be a good run until you get out there. Today I woke up at 6:30am with a head­ache. I got up, took two paracetamol, and went back to bed. When I got up again at 11am, I still felt a bit rub­bish. Nev­er­the­less, because it looked like it […]