A 9km flat run on a warm day, accidentally forced more onto roads (by path conditions) than intended.Route: leaving the car at the Mawbray Sands parking area (almost full!) and heading north, a bit inland to pass the tadpole-rich toad-spawning ponds (Galloway cows in evidence) but joining the King Charles III Coastal Path a little further north and following this (bit narrow and overgrown in places) along the edge of the shore/just inside the road to Beckfoot. Crossing the road to join a bridleway, initially a track but later simply a theoretical route across a field of (allergy-inducing) long grass. Finding the planned exit due west to Beckfoot Farm impassable (nettles, broken bridge, fences to be climbed) walking through the grass to exit onto a c-road. Spurning the continuing path (again because of little sign of an actual path) and taking the road through Newtown to the start of another potential path to find, again, no sign of a path and thus staying on the road round to Mawbray, past the pub and back to the start.
Conditions: quite hot and without much breeze (too hot for T at this point in the year).
Pub: the Lowther Arms, Mawbray, for Corby Ale.
