A fine 11km run south down Borrowdale taking a bus back.
Route: leaving the car at Great Wood car park (more than full at 3pm but finding a now-vacated proper space) and running south out of the car park and across the road to a clear path down to the shore and along. Attempting to stay on a higher level narrow path just below the road but eventually forced onto the stony shore again and along this, round the bulge south of Barrow Bay (where a new board walk was being built), to cross the road again at Kettlewell car park and continue off road to the Lodor Falls Hotel. Running along the road to turn right onto the footpath and board walk at the Chinese Bridge and then heading south to pick up the Cumbria Way, briefly on the c-road near the Borrowdale Gates Hotel. Keeping close to the river on the lower path - though with some rocky ascents - to the bridge to Rosthwaite but staying west of the river on a narrow path to the YHA and then via some rocky terrain (with a via ferrata chain handrail) to continue to Seatoller and, for the first time in 20 years, the Yew Tree Inn.
Conditions: humid and cloudy but with some hints of brightness.
Pub: the newly-reopened Yew Tree Inn for Tirril Honister IPA (£6 per pint!).
