Matt Gets Running

Today I ran the Bris­tol 10K, mostly with my friend (and erstwhile boss) Mike. Mike had ori­gin­ally planned to part­ner up with a friend who’s a fair bit faster than me, but she got a hip injury at the last minute, unfor­tu­nately. So, I rebel­li­ously brought my green-numbered self into the red lane with Mike […]

I approached this year’s Bath Half Mara­thon with more than a little trep­id­a­tion, and rightly so, it turned out. Since the Bris­tol Half, I just haven’t trained enough. Partly that’s due to winter, and partly because my routine’s been knocked off-kilter by quit­ting my day job. I also put on some weight over the last […]

Yup! Another day, another medal. I’m get­ting quite a col­lec­tion now! I enjoyed the Bris­tol Half Mara­thon on Sunday, des­pite hav­ing had some reser­va­tions about my weight and the amount of train­ing I’d been doing. I didn’t think I stood much chance of beat­ing my per­sonal best from the Bath Half. At least I arrived relaxed and […]

Well, that was fun! Okay, if I’m being entirely hon­est, the first eight or nine miles were fun, and it was more of a slog after that, but still! It was a nice day for run­ning. It was pretty chilly first thing, and espe­cially hanging around in the run­ners’ vil­lage and the start pens, but it […]

I was a Sad Santa on Sunday. As were these other people. We’d all made our way to the Lloyds Amphi­theatre to take part in Santas on the Run, a 2K char­ity fun run for the South West Children’s Hos­pice. As you’ll have worked out, the idea is for every­one to dress as Santa for […]

Today’s half mara­thon — my first — went pretty well all round. I was a bit wor­ried by the amount of rain I could hear before I set out, but it turned into occa­sional drizzle for the race, which is per­fect jog­ging weather, really — no need to worry about over­heat­ing. I kept jog­ging from […]

So, hav­ing checked I’d got everything about three times, I set off this morn­ing to walk down to the start of the Bris­tol 10K. Everything was very civ­il­ised and well-organised. I got a pre­view of what was to come by walk­ing in through what would become the “handouts at the fin­ish” sec­tion, where they were […]