Complete sheet
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.
5 notes36 minutes of readingKaunas
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
- Written
- Revised
- Parts
- 4
- Read
- 9 min
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
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
- Written
- Revised
- Parts
- 4
- Read
- 8 min
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
- Read
- 7 min
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.