A sunny Bank Holiday Saturday afternoon 6.5km run (L only, T still broken) - the first in exactly a month!
Route: Leaving Midtown Cottages to run along the road and over the bridge to Boon Beck and taking the stile on the right past Boon Beck fold to run across fields, first over Whit Beck and then across the little bridge over the next beck. There encountering a wire across the onward footpath route and turning right down the track down from Scales to join the lane up to Low Swinside.Running along and through the farmyard and on to the lane and then footpath leading across three fields to the Hopebeck Road.
Turning left onto the road and running along to cross Hope Beck and turn up left at the junction and run up the gated road to above Low Swinside and on to the copse above Blaze Beck.
There forking back to run back down to Boon Beck, stopping above Scales and diverting 50 yards to the left to inspect the ‘watering place erected by WL and Frances Alexander in the year of Queen Victoria’s Jubilee, 1887’, across the bridge and back to the cottages.
Conditions: Beautifully warm and sunny (but not quite the ‘heatwave’ hitting the south of England) and largely dry under foot
Pub? As soon as humanly possible, Jennings Cocker Hoop, with Tim, at the Brewery.
