Add run notes for week 2 2025

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+Title: 6th-12th January Run notes
+Tags: running
+
+## Tuesday
+
+The lovely snowscape of Sunday has transformed into a treacherously icy urban assault course. I'm not going far for fear
+of getting injured away from home so find the nearest semi-quiet road and do laps. It's the middle of the day and the suns
+up so conditions are as pleasant as they can be. I muster out a couple of laps as it's an easy day and plod off home. 
+
+## Thursday
+
+Frost on frost on frost and it's a cold lunchtime to boot. I'm down to do a progression run today so I head up to my 
+new favourite road and start the laps. I mess up my watch slightly and have to restart but gratefully not before I've
+got passed the first progression. Ten minute blocks of increasing pace works nicely although my jump from super easy to
+easy is probably too big. I manage a more sensible increment for subsequent steps and end up hitting a reasonable 5k pace
+at the end. This sort of run with laps works well as you have to pay attention but I'm looking forward to next week
+when things thaw off and I can actually get a bit further afield.
+
+## Friday
+
+It's a four run week for once and I'm clocking in for another easy run. The ice is still with us so I briefly saunter up Middleton
+Park avenue before deciding its far too busy to attempt doing laps along it and I go back to Throstle road. The road is 
+quieter but there's still consistent dribble of traffic, the majority of whom give me space although occasional leaps 
+out of the road are required. Several bags of shopping sit abandoned by a bus stop and eventually on lap 8 they 
+disappear. It's a glorious afternoon with clear blue skies and the sun beating down which takes the edge off another day
+hovering at around zero degrees. 
+
+## Sunday
+
+I can't complain about cold, snow or icy today because this weekend the [Montane Winter Spine Ultra](https://www.thespinerace.com/race/montane-winter-spine/) kicks off and the conditions
+are wild. These are races from 46 to 268 miles of unsupported running along the Pennine way so all my moaning about a 
+little snow and ice is nothing compared to what they're up against.
+
+An out and back to Woodlesford today, coming into Rothwell via the jawbone and turning around just before crossing the 
+railway line. It's not as cold as previous days but footpaths are still covered in compacted snow for lots of stretches
+so I'm often hoping on and off the road as much as I can. I track quite a reasonable pace on the way out and get worried
+I'm not going to have enough in the tank for the fast finish at the end but everything keeps ticking over. I fight my way
+through a veloforte bar just after the turnaround after having picked the chewiest of the bunch. As I come down into Robin
+Hood I'm overtaken by a chap running in shorts and t-shirt which I don't mind but as I come to the final stretch where I 
+need a fast finish I catch up with him and we seemingly duel our way up Sharp Lane to the roundabout. I'm not trying to race
+but my renewed pace probably gives him the impression I'm pushing him, hopefully not in a douchebag sort of way. It's 
+good fun though and I never quite catch him before we go our separate ways at the roundabout.