Matt Gets Running

Tonight’s run was a very inter­rupted, stop-start affair. But for good rea­son. Tomor­row sees the start of the Bris­tol Inter­na­tional Bal­loon Fiesta, held at the Ash­ton Court Estate, not a mil­lion miles from my usual tow­path route. Not only that, but today some­one men­tioned the new Fes­ti­val Way cycle route, the first phase of which […]

My feet seem to be a bit achey after run­ning recently. It sud­denly occurred to me that, even though it only seems like a few weeks ago that I bought a new pair of shoes, it might actu­ally have been rather longer. And that’s where a blog comes in handy. I first bought proper running […]

I think the new shoes have done the trick. Some­thing has, any­way, as tonight’s run was lots bet­ter than my last 5K effort down the Port­way. My hip feels fine, and I didn’t feel totally knack­ered from the get-go like I did last time, either. Which is all good. Even bet­ter, there were actu­ally some […]

So, picked up my new shoes on Fri­day — Mizuno Wave Inspire 6es — and walked lots in them yes­ter­day to make sure they felt all right, and that noth­ing was rub­bing. And they were fine, so today I went out into the gor­geous Spring sun­shine and did a sim­ple 5-and-a-bit-K, just around half the […]