Matt Gets Running

I’m ill. Which is fine. I’d spe­cific­ally planned to do bugger-all dur­ing the period between Christ­mas and New Year, and if you’re going to loaf about unshaven for a few days, you might as well fit a cold in while you do it. It helps that — so far — it’s just a reg­u­lar winter lurgy […]

Today I woke up tired and with a head­ache, after a bad night’s sleep. Oddly, though, I still felt the urge to go out for my first jog since the Bris­tol Half. I’ve been mean­ing to get back out pound­ing the streets for a couple of weeks now, but my change in routine — I […]

Since my last angst-filled posts, I have man­aged to get out a couple of times, but I’m not back even to twice-a-week run­ning yet. Still. On the plus side, last Sunday I got out for a 10K run through Leigh Woods, albeit with a bit of a walk­ing break on the steep bits. This week­end I […]

I took a new toy out run­ning with me last night. I’ve been think­ing about get­ting a heart rate mon­itor for a while now, and when I found out that Run­Keeper lets you eas­ily throw Garmin devices’ data at their web­site, the Garmin Fore­run­ner 305 — cur­rently on offer for around £110 on Amazon UK […]

Yeah. Not entirely sure I believe the last few kilo­metres of RunKeeper’s log for today’s run: Espe­cially con­sid­er­ing the pace over the last couple of kilo­metres meas­ured around 1.5 minutes per kilo­metre. Although I sup­pose I would prob­ably have needed that kind of speed to fly over the Avon Gorge and sev­eral tall build­ings like that. […]

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 […]

Just a quick 5K down the Port­way for me this even­ing. After I got back, I signed up for one of RunKeeper’s new “vir­tual Fit­ness­Classes”, which I’m hop­ing will give me a train­ing plan to stick to through the winter. My half-marathon speed was really quite rub­bish — hardly sur­pris­ing given that I’ve never pushed […]