Kaunas · Kaunas CountyRun notesRunning since 2022
River Loop RunsEasy Tuesday loops on the Nemunas and the Neris

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Run notes

Everything written down since the group started keeping notes, newest at the top. The oldest one that survived being typed up is from 16 April 2024; the evenings before that exist only in other people's memories, which is no use to anybody.

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  1. A calm twelve weeks towards a half marathon in spring

    How a group that meets to run easy builds towards a spring half marathon: one long run, one honest session, and nine weeks of leaving things alone.

    Ground
    Training
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    Revised
    Parts
    4
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    9 min
  2. Knowing when a pair of running shoes is actually finished

    Mileage is a poor way to retire a shoe. What the midsole, the outsole and the upper each tell you, and how running two pairs changes the answer.

    Ground
    Kit
    Written
    Revised
    Parts
    4
    Read
    6 min
  3. Winter on packed snow: what actually changes on the riverside

    Three kinds of winter footing on the Kaunas embankments, how pace and effort come apart in the cold, and the fortnight we give up on the river.

    Ground
    Winter
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    Revised
    Parts
    4
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    8 min
  4. The oak park hills, and how not to turn them into a workout

    How we use the long diagonal climb and the wooden steps in the oak wood on ordinary evenings, and why we almost never run either of them hard.

    Ground
    Hills
    Written
    Revised
    Parts
    4
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    7 min
  5. The Tuesday loop: eight kilometres at a pace that lets you talk

    The eight-kilometre loop we run on Tuesday evenings along both embankments, why the pace stays conversational, and where it turns for home.

    Ground
    Tuesday loop
    Written
    Revised
    Parts
    4
    Read
    6 min

Notes get revised when the ground changes: a path resurfaced, a set of steps roped off, a route we quietly stopped using. The revision date is when that last happened, and the reasoning behind rewriting rather than deleting is in how these are written.