Matt Gets Running

And so ends another week where I only man­aged two runs. My lack of time this week was some­what exacer­bated by the cur­rent UK weather situ­ation. The UK media have been hav­ing a (water­logged) field day recently, because if there’s one thing that the Brit­ish love talk­ing about more than weather, it’s ironic weather, and […]

I’m man­aging to keep up the momentum, it seems. Just came back from today’s 7.5K around Leigh Woods. I’m still not back up to the level of fit­ness that lets me get up that hill in one unin­ter­rup­ted jog, but it didn’t take long to get my breath back at the pic­nic table after the […]

Des­pite the huge omin­ous cloud that was lurk­ing over Bris­tol when I headed out this lunch­time, it actu­ally turned out to be quite a sunny run in the end. Today was just a quick jog up Bridge Val­ley Road, along Ladies Mile, then back around that sec­tion of Clifton Down, fin­ish­ing with lunch in Boston Tea […]

My plan to get back to run­ning three times a week, to help me recover some fit­ness before the Bris­tol 10K, seems to be start­ing off okay. I fol­lowed up Monday’s run with another run today, so that’s my two week­day runs done. I’ll get some­thing a bit longer in at the week­end. Today’s run […]

I approached this year’s Bath Half Mara­thon with more than a little trep­id­a­tion, and rightly so, it turned out. Since the Bris­tol Half, I just haven’t trained enough. Partly that’s due to winter, and partly because my routine’s been knocked off-kilter by quit­ting my day job. I also put on some weight over the last […]

The week­end before last, I ran 10K. Last week­end, I ran 7K through rain and mud to review those Adi­das shoes. Both runs involved climb­ing from river level up to above the height of the Sus­pen­sion Bridge. Today, I looked out of the win­dow at the spring sun­shine, and decided to give myself a break. […]

On Sunday, I felt pretty good, and the weather wasn’t quite as damn cold as it had been on Sat­urday, so I set out to do a respect­able dis­tance. I did my first 10K train­ing jog the year, though Leigh Woods (hand­ily, my nor­mal Leigh Woods route plus a loop of the “purple path” works […]

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 […]

After two con­sec­ut­ive Christ­mas parties, I wasn’t feel­ing up for a run today. But when I finally drew the blinds and found out it was a lovely sunny day, I figured I should get some exer­cise. So I wandered out for a little walk that turned into 9K around Leigh Woods. Not much to report, […]

There’s no way I’d have been able to get out to the Avon Gorge for a lunch­time jog if I was still work­ing my old day-job in town. Now I’m work­ing from home, it’s a lot easier. And that’s par­tic­u­larly good at this time of year, because if you leave it much later than lunchtime, […]