Matt Gets Running

See­ing my friend Bert’s tweet earlier on got me think­ing. I have gen­er­ally been going for endur­ance rather than speed, espe­cially recently. Also in my mind was my friend Bananza’s advice that “if it’s easy, you’re not work­ing hard enough”. So, tonight I mixed things up a bit. I figured it’d do me good to […]

…in the best of all pos­sible worlds”. I’d not noticed this bit of lit­er­ally Pan­glos­sian optim­ism in Bab­shambles’ Deft Left Hand before. But it seemed to be the theme of the morn­ing, as I climbed up into the sun­shine on the Downs, and my iPod ran­domly picked the most cheer­fully Brit­ish of Pete Doherty’s output, […]

This morn­ing I had a bit of an acci­dent. My gen­eral plan was to skip the run­ning last night, and instead go out this morn­ing, as I’ve found my last few Sat­urdays have been low-energy, wasted days, and I thought I’d see if start­ing with a run would help pick me up a bit. So, I […]

“How far should I run tonight?“ “6K? No, erm, 5K. Erm.“ “I could do 6K.“ “Okay. 6K, then.” And so it was decided. Tonight I was a bit knackered, but I did feel like doing a decent dis­tance on the flat, so I ran 3km out along the Port­way, and 3km back again. Look­ing at the […]

“…when the call it comes I will be ready for war.” Today’s title is from Alabama 3’s fant­astic track Power In the Blood, from the album of the same name. It helped me get off to a nice start on the Downs after I’d clambered up Bridge Val­ley Road. I woke up to the sound of fairly […]

I was a bit tired after a long day at work, so I kept to a simple, flat route and just did 5K tonight. It was nice, it was easy, the map and stats are here. I think my “easy” pace must be get­ting a bit faster, as I did the 5K in 34 minutes […]

Fant­astic run today. I got an extra hour in bed because of the end of Brit­ish Sum­mer Time, which was a good start. Then I headed out to jog up Bridge Val­ley Road and around the Downs. I kept to a nice, steady pace — as you can see from the Run­Keeper map/log/stats — and did […]

Today I decided to take it easy. I’ve been push­ing myself a bit recently, going up steep hills, put­ting an extra kilo­metre on a run, going a bit faster. I figured I deserved a break. So, rather than take a night off, I figured I’d just go back to the very end of the C25K and […]

Lit­er­ally a quickie. I don’t nor­mally run two days in a row, but I’ve got a deep tis­sue mas­sage booked tomor­row to try to sort my back out, and I know it’s not easy to run for a day or so after that. So to min­im­ise the gap, I figured I’d go out tonight. I just […]

Tonight I avoided hills, and went out on a nice flat route, to bump up my dis­tance a bit, and see if I could do 6K rather than 5K. I’m start­ing to under­stand the phrase “to hit your stride”. The first third of tonight’s jog was quite ploddy, and I wasn’t enjoy­ing it much. Then, fairly […]