A 13.8km run mainly on good paths and tracks, today run anti-clockwise.Route: leaving the car on the road in Ings and running uphill on a quiet road to Grassgarth, where the road gives way to stony track, and then gently further uphill to a bifurcation of tracks. Turning sharp right to pass the top of a tarmac road descending into Kentmere and continuing for about 100m to find a stile and signpost pointing left along a grassy path through fields downhill to cross the road. Taking a permissive path, just before Browfoot, which leads round the farm to join the riverside track to its west. Along past Crofthead and Sawmill Cottage to reach the Hollingworth & Vose factory and then taking the green balcony path. After 2km in Hall Wood, bearing left off the right of way but on a track to pick up the southbound track. Rising up this to cross the moorland on a clearly artificial, only occasionally submerged, raised causeway across marshes eventually rejoining the outward tracks to regain Grassgarth and then Ings.
Conditions: cloudy, but with odd hints of brightness, muggy and with lots of buzzy (not bitey) flies.
Pub: the Watermill, Ings for Watermill Mad Dog IPA, Windermere Blonde and Ruff Justice.
