Add run notes for week 19 2025

Author: Sparrow0hawk

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+Title: 5th-11th May Run notes
+Tags: running
+
+## Monday
+
+The start of a two-week taper and one final session of downhill focus. It’s a bank holiday and I run in the evening after
+a cooler day. I just find my familiar route on the ridge line in Sissons wood and repeat, repeat, repeat. There are more
+people about in the woods than in the morning and I get more encouragement than usual. It may not have been entirely sincere,
+but I take it. I ran the day before but my legs feel pretty good, chasing it downhill is lots of fun and I could definitely
+do a couple more repeats.
+
+## Wednesday
+
+I’ve convinced myself I need to do a power hiking session on a treadmill to familiarise myself with continuous climbing.
+It’s not something I’ve had a lot of practise with given the lack of a nearby long hill. I run from the station with my
+pack to a nearby gym and proceed to spend a long time faffing with the guy on the counter who needs my email for him to
+send me a payment link. I spell out my email, write it down in caps but eventually just come round the counter 
+to type it out myself. I pay and am on the treadmill, quick warm up then crank the incline up to max (15%) and hike it
+for 15 minutes before a quick cool down and jog to the office. It all felt good and I was pleased not to get any burning
+in my calves, hopefully this sort of thing scales all the way up Yr Wyddfa right?
+
+## Thursday
+
+I skip the planned speed session because my hamstings are still slightly sore from Monday. I take it real easy through
+Sissons wood. The ferns are stark green among the ashes where the fires have been from previous weeks and unravel
+marvelously.
+
+## Friday
+
+Another easy day just getting time on feet. This time I do the Middleton lap, heading into the park follow the track at
+the very edge of the wood until I come up by Gipsy lane and up out by the Ring Road. I follow Bodmin road a little before
+taking the gate down into Sissons wood and complete my lap running down Thorpe Lane and home. This whole thing felt 
+super and I was buzzing by the end of it.
+
+## Sunday
+
+Nothing spectacular as it's taper week. Just a nice steady one hour thirty or so down the Leeds Liverpool Canal from
+Burscough. It's gotten warm towards the end of the week and temperatures are already climbing this morning but the course is 
+flat as a pancake and it's easy to keep it steady. The sunshine has brought everyone out and I pass people fishing,
+dog walkers, bike riders, walk-and-talkers, and plenty of runners. I get to Parbold and go a bit further and am passed
+by someone wearing a Lakeland 100 t-shirt which gives me an extra shot of inspiration. I can see himalayan balsam growing
+back with a vengeance along swathes of the towpath and hope the balsam-bashers will be out soon to try and contain it. 
+In the end I do chase the distance slightly aiming to hit 16km/10miles mark, I make it within the time which makes me feel
+pretty happy and don't feel like I pushed further than 6 in relative effort terms. Looking at my stats gives the impression
+it was harder than it felt and I can see as the temperature picked up so does my heart rate. 
+This is the one thing I'm slightly nervous about next week, a hot day, as I haven't had a lot of exposure to the warmer
+weather and likely will find it harder. You can't pick your weather though so it will be what it'll be!