Matt Gets Running

The Bris­tol 10K was my first race, this time last year. It’s a good, fun race, with a whole lot of people — 9,000 fin­ished this year — and it’s right on my door­step. It only takes me twenty minutes to get to the start line, and then we run right back past my flat […]

I’ve got a prob­lem at work. Well, okay, I have sev­eral prob­lems at work, includ­ing the irrit­at­ing fact I have to go there every day. But the prob­lem I want to share today is the Prob­lem of the Spare Desk. Since our team moved floors a couple of months ago, I’ve had to sit next to […]

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 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 […]