Matt Gets Running

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]