Matt Gets Running

Just a simple 6K along the towpath and back yes­ter­day. I ran yes­ter­day partly because I felt like it, and partly because it looked like it might be the last non-rainy day of the week. It was prop­erly wintry yes­ter­day, around 6C, but I was fine once I’d warmed up. Apart from that, noth­ing to […]

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 two con­sec­ut­ive Christ­mas parties, I wasn’t feel­ing up for a run today. But when I finally drew the blinds and found out it was a lovely sunny day, I figured I should get some exer­cise. So I wandered out for a little walk that turned into 9K around Leigh Woods. Not much to report, […]

There’s no way I’d have been able to get out to the Avon Gorge for a lunch­time jog if I was still work­ing my old day-job in town. Now I’m work­ing from home, it’s a lot easier. And that’s par­tic­u­larly good at this time of year, because if you leave it much later than lunchtime, […]

Here’s a pic­ture from last week’s jog, when I went out on Thursday, tak­ing advant­age of my new unem­ployed lay­about freel­ance status by going for a 6K run around the Downs at lunch­time. It was a clear, fresh autumn-nearly-winter day, and I enjoyed the jog, mostly. Though I did drop back to a walk in […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

I’ll start off with a nice happy pic­ture, just to show that some of today’s run was quite pleas­ant. These are a few of the mil­lions of blue­bells cur­rently car­pet­ing Leigh Woods, which makes the woods even nicer than usual for jog­ging. And it was also a nice sunny day, as you can prob­ably tell. […]

Des­pite being robbed of an hour in bed by the clocks going for­ward, I still man­aged to get out and do a 7.5K out along the towpath, through Leigh Woods, and back to the Sus­pen­sion Bridge this morn­ing. It was a nice day for a jog; cool but not cold, and rain-free. It’s been a […]