Down Hill from Here

So I managed to squeeze in another run today despite the fact that a deadline loomed (unfortunately the deadline is in Europe so that brings it forward by 6 hours). But I perservered and went for a run after determining that the work really could be done in a few hours - and probably the work would be done better if I ran first (or so friends who run tell me). Back to the park and its fabulous trails and somewhere in the middle of a 5 km I realized that if I had started at the other end of the loop I could have avoided a big walking break where I struggled up some pretty nasty hills. No really, they're like 40 degrees on a protractor. Straight up really. Instead, I could have been running down those hills and then faced a much gentler incline on the other end. However, this leads to the question - run full force down the hill with gravity or put on the brakes? Somewhere I thought I had read that you should just go for it, that it would take more energy to put the brakes on. But another running friend said running full force down a hill is pretty hard on the knees - and I already have trouble with my knees. I like this trail, I want to keep running it, so I need to figure the hill thing out.



Otherwise, it was a decent run - not as far as previous runs, I forgot to put honey in my muesli or something - but there were big yellow butterflies and little blue cabbage moths to look at, so all in all a good thing...