Add run notes for week 7 2025

Author: Sparrow0hawk

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+Title: 9th-16th February Run notes
+Tags: running
+
+## Tuesday
+
+First run post race and things are still achey but an easy plod around the woods helps. It's damp underfoot but as I get
+away from the road the birds have become noticeably louder. Spring feels close.
+
+## Thursday
+
+I fancy a longer explore of Spring Lane Sidings near Ardsley so make my way down from Thorpe and along Dolphin Beck. Since
+I've last been here the trees have been thinned out and wood chipping scattered. It feels much more open along the footpath
+beside the marsh which I'm sure will be nicer in the summer but right now it feels a bit brutal. I get all the way to Lingwell
+Gate Lane and head into the Sidings taking an early left turn. I'm not entirely sure where I'm going at this point and end
+up climbing a small hill into East Ardsley proper. I manage to get my bearing and head down towards the railway and find
+the path back onto the Sidings. I pass some dog walkers and curse loudly as an excitable dog gets too close, I'll never 
+look at a dog the same way after that bite!
+
+## Friday
+
+I decide to swap my trail shoes for the road today and do the classic Robin Hood loop. I feel tired from the week so it 
+takes a bit to get going. The greenway is very quiet and I get some good uninterrupted bursts in but decide to leave off
+doing too many. The morning chorus of birds is a welcome change from the road which is busy with cars. It's been a few
+weeks since I've done a road run and with all the traffic it definitely appeals less than being out on the trails.
+
+## Sunday
+
+A chilly morning, still waiting for a sprung spring. I'm out on the Leeds-Liverpool canal and have to be in Ormskirk for
+a set time. I haven't thought very hard about the route but know I will probably follow the canal for a way and then cut 
+across to Ormskirk itself. It's still damp underfoot but the canal footpath isn't horribly muddy. I pass lots of pubs along 
+the way: the Saracen's Head, the Ship Inn, the Slipway and also plenty of narrow boats. There's a few hardy souls out fishing
+along my way and a handful or so of dog walkers. I don't meet any runners or cyclists until I come off the canal and head
+towards Ormskirk. I spend a long stretch of this in the road because the pathetic excuse of a footpath is so narrow I might
+as well be in the road anyway. I come past some outrageously swanky looking houses and climb the only hill of the run to
+pass some more eyebrow raising houses (ornate giraffe and dog statues fill the garden) and come down into town. For a route
+that's largely been made up on the fly it's been quite good really, certainly fitted the bill of something long but easy. 
+Ending it just in time for brunch also a big plus.
+
+At brunch we sit at a table under a remarkable canvas copy of ['Grain'](https://www.tretyakovgallerymagazine.com/sites/default/files/illustrations/art_45_05_09.jpg)
+by Ukrainian artist Tatiana Yablonskaya (profile from [Tretyakov Art Gallery Magazine](https://www.tretyakovgallerymagazine.com/articles/4-2014-45/tatiana-yablonskaya-1949-artists-true-heart#).
+It's unlike any other picture in the place and really stands out, I ask a waitress where they get them and she says just 
+from some warehouse in Bristol. If it'd fit in the car I'd have asked how much for it but I'll have to settle for getting
+it as a postcard instead.