Opening pair David Lloyd (73) and Hamish Rutherford (62) put on a first wicket stand of 136 as Glamorgan reached 264/6 on day one of their LV= Insurance County Championship match against Gloucestershire.
The Welsh county were pegged back after the loss of Lloyd, but new signing Eddie Byrom battled to the close reaching a maiden half-century for the club as he shared a patient seventh wicket stand of 73 with Andrew Salter (26*).
"It's been a tricky couple of weeks since coming back from white-ball stuff, it's been frustrating but I kept working hard and changed a few things technically, I went back to an older set-up staying more still," said Lloyd.
"I felt in a good place, had a good partnership with Hamish to start, and we were very pleased with the first session. Then they bowled very well after lunch with quick wickets but we recovered at the end with Eddie and Andrew batting nicely and hopefully we'll get to 300.
"The wicket seems to be a weird one, at times it looks pretty flat but after lunch it started to do a bit more when the cloud cover came. After being put into bat, 300-plus should be a good effort."