A 5km run starting, for the first time, with just going up Slate Fell. Some jeopardy because of the forecast - and actual - rain.Route: from the Rectory, heading along Strawberry How Road to the Sustrans route and then left along the Greenway and right across Bitter Beck to Casshow Way. At the end of the road, left along an informal path slightly uphill to a sign pointing right to Slate Fell. Then across fields, slowly uphill, eventually going left through a gate into the adjacent field and then, as the path starts to descend, right off the path to get to the summit (Lois doing a little impromptu victory lap). Then back along the lower path to Brick Kiln Wood, along St Helen’s St and via the small park behind the Kirkgate Centre to the Swan.
Conditions: windy with rain forecast and some light rain arriving half way.
Pub: the Swan Inn, Cockermouth for Brakspear Oxford Gold.
