A 7km run on largely flat ground, the second run in two days after a fallow period, hopefully to start a return to fitness.Route: Parking on the large lay-by opposite St Michael’s church, Lamplugh, and crossing a ladder stile 100m to the north to take a marshy track along field edges to a gate in the corner. Then turning right to step across a beck on treacherous stepping stones (thus deciding not to return this way), and across another field to join a track, steeply down and up to Dockray Nook. Thence passing Felldyke Bunkhouse on the right, to the track junction above Felldyke to turn left uphill at a junction on a gravel track, at a walk initially, and then, descending slightly, running with the gorge of Rakegill Beck to the left, to reach the dam at the west end of Cogra Moss.
Continuing straight on a level track anti-clockwise round the reservoir for 3km. Returning, on a newly-made soft gravel path, rising a little, and then descending past the dam. Running back down to Felldyke and, after the bunkhouse, turning left, marked Stegcroft Bridge, through a farmyard with horses, diagonally across one field and then left on a path past two fields to emerge onto the road just south of Inglenook caravan park. Continuing right on the road, past a junction, uphill back to the church.
Conditions: occasional glimpses of sun, cold, dry, still. Soft going across the fields.
Pub: The New Cock and Bull, Cockermouth, for Cumbrian Ales Loweswater Gold and Timothy Taylor’s Golden Best.
