A10km run round Swinside. Route: leaving the car 50m west of the Orthodox Church in a parking area up a gravel track and running back - past the currently removed Buddhist bridge (the ‘Chicken Bridge’) - and through the village on footpaths, crossing the village centre road bridge and then taking a footpath on the right, between Coledale Beck and the campsite, to a footbridge over the beck and then following it along to Little Braithwaite.
Taking the c-road to Ullock and, for the first time, the soggy flat path across fields to a private road in Portinscale. Turning right on this to the c-road and right again to find, on the left, the Cumbria Way uphill through Fawe Park. Following the Way to near the Hawes End Outdoor Centre and turning right on a tarmac drive to join the c-road to the (closed on Monday and Tuesday in January) Swinside Inn. Descending to the road to take the path on the right down to, and slightly along and across, the river to Uzzicar (the riverside path remaining closed since 2020). Running north along the road north for 200m to join a path rising - now at a walk - above a wood and then descending into Braithwaite and back to the car.
Conditions: dry with hints of sun.
Pub: the Royal Oak, Braithwaite, for Courage Directors.
