Add run notes for week 4 2025

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+Title: 20th-26th January Run notes
+Tags: running
+
+## Tuesday
+
+Black cat crossed my muddy trail  
+Eyes flash, swoosh of a bushy tail  
+Dark morning clouds with a ripple of red  
+Time for the sun to get out of his bed.
+
+## Thursday
+
+What's the opposite of gloaming I wonder as I set off in the tentative half light just before a full sunrise. There wasn't
+really a good reason to bring my head torch and I chuck it into my bag by the time I reach Middleton Park. I'm charting a
+trail avoiding the roads as much as possible cutting from Middleton Park to Sissons Wood. As I come down the slope into 
+the main clearing before the golf course I see a bunch of work men digging up the ground. I'm still unclear what exactly
+is going on in the old golf course, are they planting more trees? They've laid down new footpaths throughout, whilst churning
+up a great deal of earth. Maybe by summer it'll be clearer what the plan is. I reach the Thorpe trig point and cut across 
+the fields towards home. The farmer has been in and ploughed up the fields ready for planting and I get my shoes all claggy
+with mud, next time I'll follow the other footpath.
+
+## Sunday
+
+A full kit pack race ahead of Punk Panther's Harrogate Hustle half-marathon on the 7th. I'd plotted a road-to-trail route
+that would get me on an excellent circular from Ardsley to Kirkhamgate and back. The trails were pretty quiet, with lots of
+enjoyable undulating, hoping over stiles and little brooks and squelching through soggy fields. Am I going easy enough I
+wondered a couple of times, the run wasn't super hard but harder than the road and I possibly could have eased off in some
+sections but getting swept up in the adventure gets to your head/feet. After crossing the motorway back to Ardsley I have
+an unfortunate encounter with a dog walker, who's red dog Rosie is off her lead and decides to give me a nip. Of all my 
+many runs or encounters with dogs I've never been bitten so this comes as a shock and takes the shine off the run slightly.
+I'm able to continue and get it checked out afterwards but not a pleasant encounter and will sadly be more on my guard with 
+dogs off-lead in future. After working my way back through Ardsley and Tingley I right my wrong from Thursday and enter the
+fields by the trig point and follow the right footpath to avoid the claggy field. Bar the bite this is definitely a route
+for the favourites list.