Matt Gets Running

My employer has just agreed to match any dona­tions I get from Bris­tol Half Marathon spon­sor­ship, up to £250. So any­thing you can donate at my Just­Giv­ing Page counts dou­ble! All dona­tions, big or small, grate­fully received :) Thanks!

Due to a Flickr meet last night, and get­ting up late this morn­ing, I only just have time for this update: I did 5K last night.

Wel­come to the 100th blog post­ing on Matt Gets Run­ning :) To mark the occa­sion, here’s a video of my (Good) Fri­day run, along the Avon Gorge tow­path, up the hill into Leigh Woods, around a lit­tle detour—to reverse out of some of the worst of the mud I ran into!—and then back to the […]

Just a quick back­dated entry: I did go for a run this week; just the usual 5K, but I waited until Thurs­day because I was knack­ered on Wednes­day. And then I went straight to Brist­wes­t­i­val, the tonguetwistingly-named Bris­tol Twit­ter fes­ti­val, so I didn’t have time to blog…

Just a quick update! Thanks for the birth­day wishes, all. I’ve been a bit off the grid since Fri­day, as my phone line has com­pletely died, tak­ing my ADSL down with it. Thanks, BT! With good luck and a fol­low­ing wind, appar­ently BT may be fix­ing the prob­lem, which is at their exchange, tomor­row. I’ve […]

See­ing as my snow­bound exer­cise regime is so lim­ited at the moment, I fig­ured I’d post some news about the iPhone app that got me started with run­ning! I hadn’t done any proper exer­cise for a cou­ple of years. I’d given up karate fol­low­ing a snow­board­ing injury that kept me out of the dojo for […]

Yes­ter­day, all else being equal, would have been a run day for me. Cer­tainly Get Run­ning sug­gested it would be. But, I think one of the many help­ful ways to stick to an exer­cise plan is to look ahead and be real­is­tic about when you just can’t fit things in. And yes­ter­day was one of those […]

Just nipped out and did run num­ber two of week num­ber two. The same run as last time, only vastly eas­ier on a non-full stom­ach! Luck­ily I didn’t have ham­mer­ing rain to put me off this evening, so get­ting out there was easy. It was rain­ing a lit­tle bit (hey, Bristol’s Har­bour Fes­ti­val starts today, […]

Today, I start run­ning. Obvi­ously, I’ve run in the past. At some point. But this will be the first time since school that I’ve run for the sake of run­ning, rather than run­ning for a bus, or run­ning as part of some other exer­cise. The clos­est I’ve come in recent years would be the jogging […]