Matt Gets Running

Last Sat­urday, I thought about jog­ging, looked out of the win­dow, and saw it was rain­ing. Then I went out any­way, because it was a good chance to test out my new Adi­das trail shoes. New Adi­das shoes? Didn’t you just buy a pair of Mizunos, Matt? Yup. But Sports Direct’s media agency (hi, Lucie!) had […]

It has been pretty nippy in Bris­tol recently, though we escaped the blanket of snow that covered the major­ity of the coun­try last week. It’s 2C out­side right now, in the middle of the day, and I was told that there’s more cold weather on the way. I took advant­age of a slight gap in the […]

My admir­ing hordes (hello, Mar­garet!) have been won­der­ing whether I made it out for my fourth “res­ol­u­tion” run of Janu­ary, and the answer is a resound­ing “yes”. I didn’t enjoy the first kilo­metre of Friday’s run, des­pite it being a nice day. I hadn’t slept that well, and I wasn’t really in the mood for running. […]

I’ll start off with a nice happy pic­ture, just to show that some of today’s run was quite pleas­ant. These are a few of the mil­lions of blue­bells cur­rently car­pet­ing Leigh Woods, which makes the woods even nicer than usual for jog­ging. And it was also a nice sunny day, as you can prob­ably tell. […]

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 […]