Matt Gets Running

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 […]

Although this was only meant to be a 2K fun-run, actu­ally get­ting to the start line felt more like a mara­thon. But finally, after find­ing a suit that actu­ally fit me, and after the first attempt was called off due to ice, the Bris­tol Santas on the Run race for Children’s Hos­pice South West went […]

Inspired by Jose’s post about early morn­ing run­ning yes­ter­day, I decided to drag myself out of bed and head out at around 7am this morn­ing. Nat­ur­ally I failed to do that, but I was under­way by about 7:30 Unfor­tu­nately, my plan to head out along the Port­way and up Bridge Val­ley Road to jog around […]

A nice five miles through Leigh Woods today. It was another altern­at­ing walk/run accord­ing to the train­ing plan thingy I’m fol­low­ing with Run­Keeper, and that helped me up my run­ning pace a bit. Well, apart from on the steeper hills Today’s photo is from Leigh Woods. Leigh Woods is mostly National Trust-owned, and a National […]

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 […]