A 7km run on a lovely, sunny Saturday late afternoon.Route: from the Rectory, heading south on Lorton Road but, on impulse, taking a snickleway right leading onto Sunscales Avenue. Taking the next snickleway left off this and steeply uphill to Briar Bank and turning left and then right again onto snickleways linking the ends of Linstock Avenue, Caldecott Avenue, Greyrigg Avenue and onto Dale View. Left along this and down the path beside the park to above the footbridge to Double Mills to take the path, through a gate, left to run, keeping close to the riverbank (with the Cocker on the right), to Simonscales Mill and beyond.
Bending left uphill and then left again along a field edge and then left down the track to Simonscales, again, to describe a lollipop. Then back on more direct routes, though rising up the bank away from the river briefly before reaching Double Mills, crossing the footbridge and then running along the river to Croft Terrace and South Street, to the Cock & Bull.
Conditions: a warm sunny May late afternoon.
Pub: the Cock & Bull for Vocation Brewery’s Heart and Soul.
