Matt Gets Running

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 […]

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 […]

Wow. That was quite an intense 7K. Not because it was fast, or any­thing, just because I didn’t get out until about half past eleven, which meant I was run­ning in the mid­day sun. That’s not been a worry so far this year. But on wan­der­ing out­side, it was pretty obvi­ous that we are no longer […]

Just a quick blog today. I got out for a simple 5K out along the towpath. No Run­Keeper log to show for it today, as the GPS just didn’t want to lock. So I ran for about eight­een minutes, then turned around and ran back, on the ground that that would be at least five […]

The Bris­tol 10K is approach­ing. It’s on road signs now, so it must be offi­cial! My plan to do a few runs in this pen­ul­tim­ate train­ing week is going well; I got out for another 5K this even­ing. I also man­aged to get to the other side of the river before the high tide and […]

Like I said in my last update, I fan­cied get­ting out for a nice long run this week­end, and this morn­ing I made good on that. I ran from home, out along the towpath under the Sus­pen­sion Bridge, all the way to the far entrance to Leigh Woods, then up into the forest. I did a […]