Matt Gets Running

I did some­thing unusual today: got out first thing in the morn­ing for a run. I man­aged it — just a stand­ard 5K along my old towpath route — but I wasn’t really feel­ing the love. I don’t know whether that’s because I’m not used to jog­ging at 9am, or whether it’s just because I was […]

I’ve decided what my reward’s going to be for get­ting to the end of the C25K. I’ve been need­ing a new com­pact cam­era for a while now. My ven­er­able Konica-Minolta DiM­age X-60 was a good first digital cam­era, but it’s now battered, bruised and lack­ing in bat­tery staying-power. Not only that, but at 5 megapixels […]

Today’s update is brought to you by Lanacane Anti-Chafing Gel. In my 28-minute road-test this even­ing, it did exactly what it says on the tube. I recom­mend it to any other run­ners out there whose thighs (or any­thing else, for that mat­ter) tend to rub together a bit too much… Any­way, with that bit of too-much-information […]

Today I bought new run­ning shoes. I figured it was about time. I went into Moti on White­ladies Road, because they seemed quite friendly the last time I went in, and they were great. I basic­ally told them I was a begin­ner and threw myself on their mercy. Help­ful sales guy checked out my feet and my […]

Today I took a quick trip to Moti, a run­ning shop on White­ladies Road, not too far away from me. It seemed like a nice place, full of help­ful people, and with a lot of cus­tom­ers, con­sid­er­ing it was a Sunday. They also seemed well geared-up for the run­ner, with a tread­mill in the middle […]