Matt Gets Running

I was going to get out mid-week this week and do a lit­tle run, but it rained for pretty much five days solid, and espe­cially heav­ily on Wednes­day, which was oth­er­wise my best run­ning option. Luck­ily the weather seems to have cleared up a bit for the Bank Hol­i­day week­end, so I nipped out to […]

Today’s jog took me out along the Port­way, mostly because the weather has been so utterly crazy in Bris­tol today that I fig­ured I’d stick to a route where there were likely no pud­dles and I was fairly unlikely to be struck by light­ning. We had the most enor­mous thun­der­clap I’ve heard in my life […]

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 […]

Well, I’ve been a bit rub­bish this week. No mid-week run. Mostly that was because I was busy doing strange things like film­ing advice on how to take pho­tos of light­ning with a BBC weath­er­man. That, and the seri­ous weather we have in fact had this week, albeit sadly lack­ing the light­ning, meant I didn’t […]

It was, again, really very sunny and warm today. I didn’t get up early enough to avoid it, so instead of head­ing for the Downs like usual, I went for a lit­tle jog around Leigh Woods, which has a lot more shade, instead. I didn’t take it too seri­ously, stop­ping off in a few different […]

I had a day off work. It looked like a nice morn­ing for a lit­tle jog. So, I went out for a lit­tle jog. Which turned into a longer jog. Which turned into a bit of an epic. I did set out with the idea of going for a longish run. I set off with plenty […]

Ah, yes, the hottest day of the year. Just the time to get out into the sun­shine at nearly noon and run 5 kilo­me­tres wear­ing y-fronts. Oh yes. Although I do have a sneak­ing sus­pi­cion that the three laps of the bloody great field we ran around wasn’t quite 5K, but I don’t sup­pose it […]

Got out early this morn­ing — well, before 9am, any­way, which I thought was pretty good for a Sun­day — and trogged up and around the Downs for 8K. Get­ting out early was a good idea for two rea­sons. The main rea­son was to avoid the mid­day sun that nearly fried me the last time […]

Today’s jog was a very sim­ple, slow 5K out down along the tow­path and back. I almost didn’t go; I’ve had a fairly busy week­end, not enough sleep, and I was pretty tired. But I bought this choco­late flap­jack, see, at lunchtime, from Chan­dos Deli in Clifton Vil­lage. And it was meant to be my […]

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 […]