Week 8 run 1 of the Cto5Km, walking for about 10 minutes before starting the run so as to minimise the initial uphill.Route: leaving the car at GR314 531 (space for 10 cars) and walking west along the road to the start of a footpath uphill. Pausing the Cto5Km app after its initial 5 minutes warm-up walk to get within one field of it levelling off before starting running, turning half left on the signed track to a gate into trees and then leaving the right of way to follow the right-most path of three uphill to reach a cleared cut in the trees, descending to a forest track. Following this until just east of the summit, according to the map, where a small path leads west into trees and then bends back left uphill to a stile onto the summit grassy plateau. Then running more freely along the summit and then downhill on the outward path and, eventually, back to the car.
Conditions: after a muggy, drizzly day, a brighter evening with a cooling breeze.
Pub: the Swan, Cockermouth, for Bowness Brewery Swan Gold.
