A solitary jog (walking the ups and running the alongs and downs) for T (L at home, nose in books, writing sermons).Route: from the rectory, running through the cemetery to Sustrans Route 7 and then along the last section of the Greenway to exit onto Strawberry How Road. Following this left over the A66, left to St Cuthbert's Church, Embleton then right on a track past Beckhouse and uphill (at a steady walk) to Highside Farm and then further uphill on Green Lonning. Descending to the road at a run and then more slowly uphill to Eskin and Old Scales, then leaving the road for a track to descend through Wythop Woods to Beck Wythop. Along the old road parallel to the A66 and the lakeshore to a car park opposite a path – across the A66 – to Hursthole Point to view Bassenthwaite Lake.
Here failing to find a continuing path along the shoreline and returning to a path just next to, and below, the A66 to a lay-by for Blackstone Point. Possibly mistakenly spurning the left turn to the Point and continuing on the path adjacent to the A66 but eventually taking a stile to paths closer to the shoreline of Bassenthwaite before finding a tunnel back under the A66 to Powter How Wood. Under this to Powter How and the old Swan Hotel and then on the back road to Thornthwaite and another back road to Seldom Seen and the path behind Braithwaite How to Braithwaite (still no Buddhist/Chicken Bridge) and to the Coledale.
Conditions: warm sunny spells.
Pub: the Coledale Inn for Corby Blonde, picked up by Lois in the motor after her run.
