Matt Gets Running

Here’s a pic­ture from last week’s jog, when I went out on Thursday, tak­ing advant­age of my new unem­ployed lay­about freel­ance status by going for a 6K run around the Downs at lunch­time. It was a clear, fresh autumn-nearly-winter day, and I enjoyed the jog, mostly. Though I did drop back to a walk in […]

It was a lovely day for a jog in Bris­tol. I was a bit delayed get­ting star­ted. I nor­mally walk across the top of a lock gate on my walk to the start of the towpath, but this morn­ing the lock gate was open to let a little batch of ships and row­ing boats out […]

I would title this entry “up with the lark”, but I don’t actu­ally know what a lark looks like. If there were any larks in Bris­tol, the seagulls would prob­ably have eaten them by now. This time yes­ter­day I was still in bed, hav­ing a long, loun­ging Sat­urday morn­ing lie-in. So it was a bit of […]

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. […]

Des­pite being robbed of an hour in bed by the clocks going for­ward, I still man­aged to get out and do a 7.5K out along the towpath, through Leigh Woods, and back to the Sus­pen­sion Bridge this morn­ing. It was a nice day for a jog; cool but not cold, and rain-free. It’s been a […]

  I’ve been tak­ing it easy since the Bath Half, giv­ing myself some recov­ery time, though I did man­age to wander out for a 5K last Sunday, and a 5K today, too. But my thoughts recently have been more on eat­ing than on exer­cise. Because, des­pite tak­ing up jog­ging, my weight has been remark­ably static. […]

I was a Sad Santa on Sunday. As were these other people. We’d all made our way to the Lloyds Amphi­theatre to take part in Santas on the Run, a 2K char­ity fun run for the South West Children’s Hos­pice. As you’ll have worked out, the idea is for every­one to dress as Santa for […]

Inspired by Jose’s post about early morn­ing run­ning yes­ter­day, I decided to drag myself out of bed and head out at around 7am this morn­ing. Nat­ur­ally I failed to do that, but I was under­way by about 7:30 Unfor­tu­nately, my plan to head out along the Port­way and up Bridge Val­ley Road to jog around […]

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 […]