{"id":3503,"date":"2014-02-16T22:17:35","date_gmt":"2014-02-16T22:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/?p=3503"},"modified":"2022-04-11T21:33:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T20:33:00","slug":"railway-reps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/railway-reps\/","title":{"rendered":"Railway Reps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two sideways karting sessions in the rain and a <em>Fast and the Furious<\/em> marathon last Saturday meant that I felt I should at least do <em>something<\/em> on my way home the following morning.<\/p>\n<p>The easy option was to stop at <a title=\"National Trust - Bulkeley Hill Woods\" href=\"http:\/\/visitwoods.org.uk\/en\/visit-woods\/Pages\/wood-details.aspx?wood=39191&amp;site=Bulkeley-Hill#.UwE1N3myuao\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peckforton<\/a> and do a couple of laps, although my assumption that its inclusion as part of the <a title=\"Sandstone Trail - Official Website\" href=\"www.sandstonetrail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sandstone Trail<\/a> meant it would be well-drained proved to be an error. The first lap was muddy and miserable, but delving back through half a lifetime of memories to school holidays spent roaming the hillside, I remembered a higher, drier alternative route for subsequent laps. Hooray! The only problem was that it involved 100 vertical metres straight up the old railway, which has three gradients: steep; steeper; ludicrous.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3507\" style=\"width: 442px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3507\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3507\" alt=\"Looking down the tracks. I wish this photo did the angle justice. \u00a9\u00a0Haydn Williams 2014\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140209-01.jpg\" width=\"432\" height=\"600\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3507\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking down the tracks. I wish this photo did the angle justice. \u00a9\u00a0Haydn Williams 2014<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Nevertheless, I really rather enjoyed it and managed three laps \/ reps before my screaming legs gave in. So far I can run the bottom section, take the middle section at a fast walk, and crawl the top third with rests (it really is stupid steep). Combined with the technical trail running to descend to the foot of the railway again, it&#8217;s a useful little training run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two sideways karting sessions in the rain and a Fast and the Furious marathon last Saturday meant that I felt I should at least do *something* on my way home the following morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1007,438,746,396],"class_list":["post-3503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-outdoors","tag-haydn","tag-peckforton","tag-railway","tag-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}