A solitary 10km jog on an autumnal, grey but dry day.Route: leaving Windermere station and heading out of the car park to turn right on the A591 and along this east for 200m to a footpath across very damp fields and a very muddy short path to cross the railway. Then through housing, keeping a straight line to join an obvious tarmac lane leading to a tarmac track and following this to a junction. Turning left and then after 100m right through a tall hand gate into a grassy park and following random paths before spotting an obviously ascendant path up School Knott with cloudy views to the central fells, down to a tarn behind it and then cutting a corner to join a clear path from the right ascending to reach a further high-point with a good tree and views back to the central fells. Descending to cross through Hagg End, turn right on a road and then taking the second left path - still on the Dales Way - via Crag House, down then uphill to a flooded gate and eventually reaching and joining the familiar c-road. Descending and then steeply re-ascending on road before descending via a path to the left into Staveley. Having crossed the A591, taking a track to the right leading eventually under the railway and back along the main road to the Mill Yard.
Conditions: mainly completely cloudy.
Pub: the Hawkshead Brewery, Staveley, for WPA.
