Add run notes for week 13 2025

Author: Sparrow0hawk

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+Title: 24th-30th March Run notes
+Tags: running
+
+## Monday
+
+A Monday run! The morning is fair and a beautiful day beckons, but I trundle out for the easiest of easy runs. 
+I head to Sissons wood and find another gear for running easy. Whereas sometimes going easy can feel harder than going fast
+today I can just drop into it. I do a small loop down the hill and back through the trees walking up the climb back to the
+main path to the road. It's just a glorious way to start the week.
+
+## Tuesday
+
+I step out no rain. I warm up it rains, I go in and get my hat, it starts chucking it down, I go in and get my coat and 
+set off. Before I hit the first kilometre the rains stopped and blue sky peaks through the clouds. It's another easy run
+with work on getting in some reasonable ascent. I find yesterdays super chilled out gear and stay there exploring various
+tracks and climbing back towards the Clearings. As I pop up onto one path a dog walker chuckles. 
+"You're not supposed to run down there."  
+I'm a little too focused on heading up the slope but give her an acknowledging smile.
+
+## Thursday
+
+I start down the slope that is wet and muddy after last nights rain. I take it quicker than usual but carefully until I 
+hit the grassy track and let fly. I follow the track all the way down keeping it quick but watching my foot placement
+until I'm past the old railway bridge and onto tarmac and I lean into it trying to not over-stride and ride the slope all
+the way down to the culvert for Mill beck. It's loads of fun and once at the bottom I gently retrace my steps all the way
+back to the start. Focused descending will hopefully make me stronger and give me a better gauge for safe speeds. Speeds
+vary on repeats as workmen arrive and move cherry pickers and diggers around nearby the existing railway line clearly
+puzzled by me zipping up and down.
+
+## Friday
+
+Middleton park. Easy, exploring the woods down by the path to Gipsy lane near the old golf course building. The bird song
+is everywhere and the woodpecker pecks away. It tries to rain but it blows over fast leaving the morning feeling glorious.
+
+## Sunday
+
+What a morning for it. The wind was actually quite strong and blowing into the ridge line which at least meant I wasn't 
+going to get blown off any climbs. Nevertheless, the sun was out, the birds were singing and the trails mostly dry. I 
+stuck to my standard approach of trying to get in 150m of ascent for every 30 minutes which works well as an incentive
+to get off the track and up the sides of trail. You get the variation of rocks, roots, years of mulched leaf litter and
+bramble covered trail. You also find curiosities here and there like and enormous, bulbous tree nestled deep in the golf
+course all the other trees seem to be keeping their distance, or a well-made shelter and fire pit someone looks to have
+used for some time (although recently abandoned). 
+
+I make a few adjustments today around nutrition and hydration. I carry a full 500mL flask in my back-stretch pocket (
+my vest only holds 250mL in on my front). This works and I can carry more water but the additional faff of reaching back
+and especially putting it away was annoying so I'm definitely considering investing in an alternate vest. Energy-wise I
+try out a little-and-often strategy rather than my usual each at 45 minutes and then roughly every 30 minutes following.
+This works pretty well and I can see myself trying to do this in a race to avoid 5 minutes of frantically chewing a bar.
+
+This largely random type of run is thoroughly entertaining and seemingly a little spiritual. You don't really care for the 
+paths you take, you just follow the tracks you find, up the hill, down the hill into every nook and cranny. On a beautiful
+day like today there are moments where I feel deep gratitude to have been afforded the time and opportunity to spend my
+Sunday morning like this.