A 5km run at the end of an autumn afternoon.Route: leaving the car in the Kirkgate carpark and crossing Kirkgate, the next car park and the footbridge to run along the bank of the Cocker to the dilapidated wooden steps up to the Green Way. Running along this to enter the cemetery and exit opposite the rectory and then doglegging left right across Lorton Road to head up Vicarage Lane (the most gradual ascent).
Then left on Simonscales Lane, over the brow of the hill and down, over the A66, onto a gravel track towards Simonscales Mill. Following the bank of the Cocker to cross the footbridge at Double Mills and run down the river to meet the outward route.
Conditions: damp under foot, cloudy and losing light.
Pub: the Bitter End Cockermough for Bellfield Lawless Village IPA and Jack Back Session IPA.
