A 10km solitary (T) run after 10 days of fatigue. Route: taking the 10:21am train to Burneside and running through Cropper’s paper factory and then left up the road to dogleg right-left up Garnett Bridge Road, leaving it for a notional path across a field to Beetham Bank. Here, taking an option to go left along a track rather than right on a path to reach Shepherd Green but finding it narrowly hedged in and comprising very deep waterlogged mud thus making very slow progress. (NEVER TO BE REPEATED!)
After the farm houses, running slowly up a tarmac drive to reach the Potter Fell road, and turning right for 400m. Turning left and walking steeply uphill through two fields before turning left on a more level track rising slowly and then descending to Gurnal Dubs. Rising to the summit of the run around 300m and descending quickly to Potter Tarn and then Birk Field. Turning right on the c-road to take the second path to the left, descending to Hall Lane, Barley Bridge and the Mill Yard.
Conditions: only about 15C but very humid and a tedious number of flies.
Pub: the Hawkshead Brewery, Staveley, for Mosaic.
