Matt Gets Running

Today’s jog took me out along the Port­way, mostly because the weather has been so utterly crazy in Bris­tol today that I fig­ured I’d stick to a route where there were likely no pud­dles and I was fairly unlikely to be struck by light­ning. We had the most enor­mous thun­der­clap I’ve heard in my life […]

I’m going to try to get out twice on week­days this week, because it’s been ages since I’ve done that. I seem to have degen­er­ated into a one-midweek, once-at-the-weekend pat­tern, mostly since the Bris­tol 10K. I think I need to start build­ing the aver­age miles up a bit again, and get out when I can. Today’s […]

It was, again, really very sunny and warm today. I didn’t get up early enough to avoid it, so instead of head­ing for the Downs like usual, I went for a lit­tle jog around Leigh Woods, which has a lot more shade, instead. I didn’t take it too seri­ously, stop­ping off in a few different […]

Back to the A4 Port­way for a nice sim­ple 5K this evening. It was warm and close, and the wide open feel of the road felt like a bet­ter anti­dote than the pleas­ant, yet sometimes-claustrophobic tow­path. Just a token effort, really, my first since Thursday’s 21km epic, and I took it slowly. No prob­lems, though. […]

I had a day off work. It looked like a nice morn­ing for a lit­tle jog. So, I went out for a lit­tle jog. Which turned into a longer jog. Which turned into a bit of an epic. I did set out with the idea of going for a longish run. I set off with plenty […]

Ah, yes, the hottest day of the year. Just the time to get out into the sun­shine at nearly noon and run 5 kilo­me­tres wear­ing y-fronts. Oh yes. Although I do have a sneak­ing sus­pi­cion that the three laps of the bloody great field we ran around wasn’t quite 5K, but I don’t sup­pose it […]

Got out early this morn­ing — well, before 9am, any­way, which I thought was pretty good for a Sun­day — and trogged up and around the Downs for 8K. Get­ting out early was a good idea for two rea­sons. The main rea­son was to avoid the mid­day sun that nearly fried me the last time […]

Wow. That was quite an intense 7K. Not because it was fast, or any­thing, just because I didn’t get out until about half past eleven, which meant I was run­ning in the mid­day sun. That’s not been a worry so far this year. But on wan­der­ing out­side, it was pretty obvi­ous that we are no longer […]

I didn’t hit the rainy streets last night, because I was knack­ered — didn’t sleep well on Tues­day night, for some rea­son. Still, today was a good alter­na­tive day for run­ning, because it was gor­geously sunny. I took today’s pic­ture on my warm-down after the run, with the sun still just above the hori­zon. Nice. Just […]

Well, that was a bit muddy. My shoes are soaked. As you can see from the Run­K­eeper log, I went through Leigh Woods today. I was going to take a dif­fer­ent route from nor­mal, but I got halfway through it and found the track so muddy that I actu­ally had prob­lems stand­ing up on it, let […]