An 11km jog: walking the substantial (280m and steep!) ascent out of Coledale.Route: leaving the car by the Coledale Inn and running due west on a stony track with houses to the right to reach the (newly-reflagged) Tibetan Bridge surprisingly quickly. Crossing it and then climbing the road for 20m to reach the start of a narrow and overgrown but clear path for 300m joining a broad track heading south west above Coledale Beck. After 2km on that gently rising track, crossing the beck on stepping stones and walking uphill first on the main track and then turning left onto a clear grassy, possibly ex-tramway, path zig-zagging to meet the track descending from Sail, past High Moss under Outerside and down the valley.
Diverting briefly off this on the path to Barn Door to escape the stones but then zigzagging back to the main path to descend next to Stonycross Gill on an improving and rather delightful running track eventually joining the road under Barrow. After 200m heading gently uphill on a lovely path above woods to Braithwaite Lodge and then left through the village to run for 100m on the Whinlatter Pass, recross the Tibetan Bridge and back to the start.
Conditions: cool, 12C and bitterly cold in a fresh breeze at the 550m contour but warmer in some intermittent patches of sun.
Pub: the Coledale Inn, Braithwaite, for Corby Blonde.
