Matt Gets Running

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 […]

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 […]

Yup, as you can see by the scene behind the scary, wonky-sunglassed weirdo in the pic­ture, it was a really nice day today. And I went on a route through Leigh Woods, which was gor­geous. Not con­tent with doing the 8K through the woods like I did last time, going out along the towpath, up […]

So, picked up my new shoes on Fri­day — Mizuno Wave Inspire 6es — and walked lots in them yes­ter­day to make sure they felt all right, and that noth­ing was rub­bing. And they were fine, so today I went out into the gor­geous Spring sun­shine and did a simple 5-and-a-bit-K, just around half the […]